: Yet another Markdown title from iA Writer These short posts are fun, a quick little run, A burst of my thoughts, under the sun. Maybe …
: Changing a Markdown Header Title (again) Will it work? I’ll have to try updating the title next to see if it changes.
: Titled Post from iA Writer What will happen if I give it a title? (edited web, 01:19) Well, it seems to work! (web) Another …
: This is a new title-less post from iA Writer. Let’s see if it gets a title. Editing from the web. …
: Coming to you from TextEdit and Inkblot! This is an edit from Micro.blog’s web interface. …
: Just a little tweet for testing my lil app.
: It’s on Apple TV The madness just got madder. ‘Apple TV+’ is now just ‘Apple TV’. I noticed something was off right …
: Post-Apple Event Gadget Waffling After reflecting on recent product announcements, a decision is leaning towards buying the iPhone 17 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: On Tim Cook, Cowardice, and Leadership In these, the minutes before the September 2025 Apple Event, in which I — and many others — will …
: 7 Things This Week [#180] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#179] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Burning the Candle Here I am, again, blogging past 11pm to try to keep up with my Blaugust goal. Although I am …
: Oasis Is No Longer So 12 minutes and counting to write and publish this thing to meet my arbitrary goal of writing a post …
: Oasis Is No Longer So 12 minutes and counting to write and publish this thing to meet my arbitrary goal of writing a post …
: 7 Things This Week [#178] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (or sometimes …
: 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 …
: Some Sounds From My Backyard I went outside with my MacBook today to answer some emails and work on upcoming trip logistics for …
: Oh Shit, It’s Blaugust Image: aggronaut.com ⌘ Well, that really snuck up on me. Here I was, power-puttering™ around on the …
: 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 …
: 7 Things This Week [#177] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 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” …
: Pouring One Out for Pocket Well, a little less than two months since Mozilla announced it was happening, Pocket, the venerable …
: 7 Things This Week [#176] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘Sam and Jony skepticism’ I’m glad that Jason Snell blogged about his skepticism toward the OpenAI and io partnership because …
: 7 Things This Week [#175] A list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted when I’ve got 7 of them. Sometimes …
: Two bits of good Apple TV+ news Acapulco returns in July for a fourth and final season. I’ve enjoyed this series, and I’m glad …
: HeyDingus Now Runs on iCloud You’d have no way of knowing, but I swapped the entire infrastructure that HeyDingus runs on from …
: 7 Things This Week [#174] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#173] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘I’m a season 1 sorta guy’ Matt Birchler in a (paywalled) post on Birchtree: I’m of course publishing this the day after the …
: 7 Things This Week [#172] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#171] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: The Keen is pricy, but exactly what I wanted It’s a Studio Neat product, so it’s no wonder that this little auto-retract utility blade is so …
: 7 Things This Week [#170] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: An update to my Alt Text generator shortcut One of my most-used shortcuts, and the one that gets mentioned the most online, is my Generate Alt …
: 7 Things This Week [#169] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Quick Tip: I just saved over $100 by checking a subscription’s hidden plan options I wanted to check out a mobile video editor to cut up some videos to share. So I searched the App …
: 7 Things This Week [#168] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#167] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: My favorite gizmos of CES 2025 I’m usually only tangentially interested in the Consumer Electronics Show. It seems like so much of …
: 7 Things This Week [#166] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: An unexpectedly tense but productive day in homeownership Today was a tough, yet constructive, day as a homeowner. I awoke at 8am to a 50-degree house since …
: MacPaw’s aiming to out-Siri Siri with third-party-enabled Eney macOS assistant MacPaw’s newly-previewed Eney gives me strong Siri vibes. Here’s Michael Burkhardt at 9to5Mac on its …
: New gear day!! 😍 Book a trip and you could be the first to swing them into ice! Thanks …
: Kicked some ice tonight with @ben_k_
: Swinging into early ice season at Harlot on the north side of Pitchoff! (Is it still early with …
: Winter has well and truly arrived in the ADK. I’m so proud of Petra as she completed her first-ever …
: The snow and conditions were just too perfect to not go exploring through untouched trails tonight! …
: Quick Tip: Get ChatGPT’s global keyboard shortcut working again in 5 seconds flat [TL;DR: Enable the menu bar icon, and it’ll start working again. And yes, I timed it.] If you, like …
: Using HomePods for home theater audio is pretty great I expect I’ll have more to say about this before long, but I recently bought a secondhand 1st-gen …
: My Big-Number Fitness Goals for 2025 I have a friend who sets outrageous physical challenges every year for himself to complete. One …
: My Blogging Origin Story & Other Questions: A Blogging Challenge Two terribly delightful things happened yesterday in my personal blogosphere. First, the internet’s …
: 7 Things This Week [#165] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Man, these long …
: Some personal news: I’m an unpaid volunteer editor at The Verge (at least until they’re better at linking to things) The Verge’s inconsistency to include a link to the primary subject in their articles finally drove …
: I’m switching from Raindrop to Apple Notes for saving my shopping links I’m a card-carrying Link Saver. Typically, links I want to save for the long term go into …
: Experimenting with link posts on my microblog (and “the how” with Shortcuts) Although I’m usually partial to including a short blockquote from articles I want to share, lately …
: Mesh Baselayers Beat Traditional Ones I’ve been highly skeptical of those funny-looking large mesh baselayers . You know, the ones that …
: My Overcast Podcast Listening Stats for 2024 Overcast (finally) introduced a “wrapped”-style listening stats round-up feature a couple of months …
: 2024 Apple Product Tier List Inspired and enabled by Basic Apple Guy, here is my ranking of all the products that Apple released …
: 7 Things This Week [#164] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. Happy New …
: Grading my 24 Apple predictions for 2024 Speaking of things I wrongly predicted, considering that it’s the final day of 2024, I’d better …
: PSA: Best Buy’s Upgrade+ program didn’t even last long enough for users to get a single upgrade, but Upgraded is another option Back in October 2022, I linked to a MacRumors post about Best Buy’s new Upgrade+ program, saying …
: 7 Things This Week [#163] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays Monday. Sometimes …
: 7 Things This Week [#163] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays Monday. Sometimes …
: Leaping Onward It was about this time last year that I started feeling particularly sick of my day job. I was …
: Delta of the Defaults (2024) It’s that time of the year! Time to take stock of our default apps, as instructed in Hemispheric …
: 7 Things This Week [#162] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘Dictate a Note’ is my new favorite shortcut (and that’s saying something) Imagine this: You’re driving down the road when a Very Good Idea springs to mind. You need to …
: First Impressions of Artemis: James’ ‘Calm Web Reader’ Yesterday, James (of James’ Coffee Blog) announced his newest web project, Artemis. He billed it as …
: I launched a ‘For Sale’ page 🛍️ It’s at heydingus.net/sales. There’s only one thing on it right now, the Keychron K3 Ultra-Slim …
: The Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Rules I really should have more to say about this after many years of waiting it out to get one, but the …
: The App Store Awards unexpectedly brightened my day (and my Today View) Apple’s App Store Awards video for this year is mesmerizing. I’ve watched it many times already. …
: 7 Things This Week [#161] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Microsoft hinges away from the Surface Studio Hartley Charlton, macrumors.com: Microsoft has confirmed to _Windows Central_ that it has ended …
: MacStories Unwind’s Best Music of 2024 Each December, I look forward to the annual “Best of Music” episode on MacStories Unwind because …
: A few Apple features that I was super excited for, but have yet to ever try Spatial Personas in Apple Vision Pro. They look awesome, and everyone who tries them says they’re …
: Deck your Dock with holiday lights with Simon Støvring’s Festivitas app The holidays really arrived in my household today. Not only did my wife and I harvest and decorate …
: The media starts to fold David Frum, writing ‘The Sound of Fear on Air’ for The Atlantic (I recommend reading the whole …
: OpenAI’s 4o model cost me a whopping 62 cents last month If you’re paying $20/month for ChatGPT Plus just to use the API, you’re vastly overpaying. In …
: The Verge (finally) gets a subscription Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief at The Verge, announcing their new subscription option: Today we’re …
: Holy smokes, Apple finally brought Replay to the Music app* Benjamin Mayo, writing at 9to5Mac on Apple’s latest rendition of the wildly popular personal music …
: Where do we go from here? I haven’t written a whole lot about politics since the U.S. election in which we, as a nation1, …
: A new Dia for web browsing? I doubt I’ll switch to The Browser Company’s new AI-infused-and-focused Dia browser when it debuts …
: 7 Things This Week [#160] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#159] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ A …
: Apple is straight-up telling us to lie In all the hubbub back in September wondering how Apple was going to advertise its new iPhones with …
: Artinoise Makes a Hardware Version of Smule’s Ocarina (Yes, the app from 2008) Andrew Liszewski, theverge.com: An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C …
: 7 Things This Week [#158] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Leading By Example There’s this thing that I do when I want to feel like my actions matter. I think to myself, “I am …
: Vote for Kamala Harris & Tim Walz We’re but a handful of hours until polls open for this tumultuous Election Day, and I find myself …
: PSA: Beware certain AirPods Max stands Well, it happened. I worried about it when I first got my AirPods Max, but then neglected to check …
: A passage from Ratika Deshpande’s ‘The Sky Zine’ You might remember Ratika Deshpande from my PenPal series with her. During that month, we often …
: 7 Things This Week [#157] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays when I can. Sometimes …
: 7 Things This Week [#157] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays when I can. Sometimes …
: Chief People Officer Left the Chat Carol Surface is out as the Chief People Officer at Apple. It was less than two years ago when I …
: ‘Call me, maybe’: Neatnik’s New Phone Support Adam Newbold, of omg.lol proprietor fame, is setting up a direct phone support line for his one-man …
: Lynn Hill: Climbing comes down to cleverness and perseverance I loved this interview and showcase of Lynn Hill on Climbing Gold. She describes the beauty and …
: Farewell, iMore Editor-in-Chief Gerald Lynch breaks the bad news in ‘One More Thing… Goodbye from iMore’: Dig out …
: 7 Things This Week [#156] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Crashing Clockwise #572: ‘Fight, Fight, Fight!’ My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast with no plans …
: Six-Sentence Reviews of My New Apple Stuff I “tweeted” my first impressions of my new phone and headphones last night after about an hour of …
: ‘The Sound of Silence’ Rules Sometimes I feel like Simon & Garfunkel wrote this song precisely so that Disturbed could …
: Crashing Clockwise #571: ‘I Am My Own Robot’ My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast where you can …
: 7 Things This Week [#155] A list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted weekly. Sometimes themed, but often …
: ‘It’s Glowtime’ Apple Event Bingo, HeyDingus Edition It’s Apple Event day, which means it’ll soon be time to score drafts, picks, and (for the first time …
: 7 Things This Week [#154] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Humility Is Better Late Than Never I wanted to offer a quick follow-up to my post congratulating Marco Arment on the rewrite of …
: Crashing Clockwise #570: ‘It’s a Worm’ My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast once again …
: HeyDingus for Relay for St. Jude for Ending Childhood Cancer for 2024 Let’s do this. ⌘ Hey y’all! Our little corner of the internet, led by the fine folks at the Relay …
: Gratitude Comes From the Top Getting back into reading the Make Something Wonderful book this morning, I was struck by the very …
: Blaugust 2024 Retrospective Holy smokes, I’ve done it! This is post #31/31 for Blaugust 2024. While it’s not my first time …
: Back to Ohio and Wedding Bound! As I write these words, I’m sitting in the passenger seat of my wife’s car as she drives us down …
: Simple Scan Aped My Shortcut Writing about my work shift scheduling shortcut reminded me that I used to use another shortcut on a …
: Effortlessly Scheduling My Work Shifts with Shortcuts You know me, I’m always up for spending an hour to make a shortcut that’ll save a few minutes each …
: 7 Things This Week [#153] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Crashing Clockwise #569: ‘Average Mid-Sized Sedan of a Dog’ My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast where our …
: The Perfect Album It’s time to jump aboard another blogging fad from those trendy guys over on Hemispheric Views. Oh, …
: Snapchat’s Notifications Are the Worst [Steps up onto soap box.] I actively avoid using Snapchat because its notification system is so bad. …
: Small Life Improvement: Turn Off Your Microwave I’ve gotta share with you one of the small changes that my wife and I made to our home that’s had a …
: 7 Things This Week [#152] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Monday (this time). Sometimes …
: Re: Places on the web Manu Moreale, writing on his blog about how the digital world often reflects the physical one: …
: Wrapping Up PenPals with Steve Ledlow After another (let’s be honest, expected) delay on my part, I’ve wrapped up my PenPal conversation …
: Crashing Clockwise #568: ‘The Canonical Answer is Dan’s TV’ My (not so subtle) attempt to someday guest on “the tech podcast where Dan has abandoned us once …
: 7 Things This Week [#151] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Mid-Blaugust 2024 Check-In Today is August 17th, so we’re over halfway through Blaugust 2024 and I thought I would just let you …
: License Plate Game: Long-Distance Family Edition My mother-in-law sent a message to the family group chat a few days ago that went something like …
: On Doing Scary Things Much like I think it’s important to do hard things, I also think it’s important to make yourself do …
: Crashing Clockwise #567: ‘That’s Not How Capitalism Works’ My (not so subtle) attempt to someday be a guest on “the podcast that always arrives precisely when …
: An Incomplete Recounting of My Day Morning A fairly normal morning in the shop. I arrived at 8:45am and got things opened up, set bikes …
: Uninvited Guest (Or, The Black Bear Snack Bar) So you remember how I installed that smart bird feeder camera a few days ago? Well, I filled it up …
: 7 Things This Week [#150] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (or Mondays if I fall …
: Google’s New Home Gadget Refresh Gets a Thumbs Up From Me Speaking of home gadgets, I just watched Jennifer Pattison Tuohy from The Verge run through Google’s …
: Two New Home Gadgets My wife has been back in Michigan to visit her parents for the past few days and the buddy who was …
: Crashing Clockwise #566: ‘That’s My Shredder Sound’ My (not so subtle) attempt to someday be a guest on “the tech podcast where we’re finally reunited …
: You (And I) Can Do Hard Things The next time you find yourself about to phone it in on a goal, shirk a commitment you made, or just …
: I was wrong about the AirPods Max Smart Case Here I am at 10:38 PM, having only gotten home a short while ago and scrambling to find something …
: Crashing Clockwise #565: 'Friendship Dots' My (not so subtle) attempt to someday be a guest on “the tech podcast that always has jet …
: Crashing Clockwise #565: ‘Friendship Dots’ My (not so subtle) attempt to someday be a guest on “the tech podcast that always has jet lag.” Dan …
: 7 Things This Week [#149] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Belatedly Grading My Predictions for Apple’s May ‘Let Loose’ iPad Event I know this old news by this point, but I hate leaving things unfinished. Therefore, over two months …
: Overcast’s 10th Anniversary Update First things first, a massive congratulations are in order for Marco Arment, developer of Overcast, …
: The Waterhole There’s a bar here in town called the Waterhole that is cash-only. When we first moved here, I …
: 7 Things This Week [#148] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays Wednesday this week. …
: Summer PenPals with Justin and Steve I’ve not been keeping up very well on noting here when there are new penpal entries, so I’m fixing …
: Jeff Perry: 'It is time to slow down' Jeff Perry, writing for Clicked: The attempted assassination of Donald Trump this weekend triggered …
: Jeff Perry: ‘It is time to slow down’ Jeff Perry, writing for Clicked: The attempted assassination of Donald Trump this weekend triggered …
: 7 Things This Week [#147] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (but maybe Mondays). …
: Crashing Clockwise #560: ‘I Don’t Like It When I’m Disappointed’ Jumping into Clockwise, “the tech podcast that uses half an hourglass for timekeeping”, with my own …
: 7 Things This Week [#146] And now for something new! I’ve been on something of a… let’s call it a “summer break” from …
: 7 Things This Week [#145] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: My WWDC24 Wish List A Siri that doesn’t suck.® (Lol, there’s actually a bunch more that I’d like to see Apple improve …
: 7 Things This Week [#144] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Starting up PenPals with Justin Wong I’m a bit delayed on my end, but I’ve started emailing with Justin Wong this month. Justin is a …
: Starting up PenPals with Justin Wong I’m a bit delayed on my end, but I’ve started emailing with Justin Wong this month. …
: Wrapping up being PenPals with Ratika Writing with Ratika this month stretched my skills in interesting ways. Her style encouraged me to …
: 10 Last-Minute Predictions for Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ Event I’ve been mostly offline for the last week, camping with my wife and dog, and taking a couple of …
: 7 Things This Week [#143] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Climbing Is Inherently Dangerous As I become more cemented in the climbing community, meeting new people and expanding my “network” …
: 7 Things This Week [#142] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Crashing Clockwise #551: ‘Clippy Vibes’ The tech podcast where every day is Earth Day, except for that time we recorded on Mars. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan …
: Apple Watch + Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses make the perfect running combo, and more on why I love these glasses As far as I’m concerned, this 8-minute YouTube video by Becca Farcace at The Verge is required …
: ChatGPT Makes a Good Teacher & Quizmaster Speaking of drafts you discover and then decide to publish, this was from last week. So I just used …
: My Favorite Alpine Draw Slings Speaking of cool climbing gear, if you’re getting any traditional slings for alpine draws, general …
: 7 Things This Week [#141] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Crashing Clockwise #550: ‘Strap In and Forget My Email’ The tech podcast that just had its gears oiled! Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. …
: 7 Things This Week [#140] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Date: 2024-04-14 19:12 Tags: 7 Things, 52 Albums Thumbnail: ik.imagekit.io/heydingus… Author: …
: PenPal with Ratika: Sleep, Routines, and Short Stories From my latest exchange with Ratika Deshpande: The sky is a color that refuses to be named; it is …
: PenPal with Ratika: Sleep, Routines, and Short Stories From my latest exchange with Ratika Deshpande: The sky is a color that refuses to be named; it is …
: PenPal with Valerie: Climbing, Crafts, and Wrap-up Valerie and I wrapped up our month(+) of email exchanges: And on that note, I suppose we’ll bring …
: 7 Things This Week [#140] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Making a dynamic auto-sorting list in Shortcuts to easily deploy memes So you like memes. (Me too!) And you like Markdown. (Right there with ya, buddy.) And you’re the …
: Humane pinned their launch date, if not their pin Say what you will about Humane’s Ai Pin1, I have to give them credit for nailing the timeline they …
: Edelrid’s Design Team Is at the Top of Their Game Edelrid is making some of the coolest, most forward-thinking climbing gear at the moment. My first …
: Shortcuts Tips: Size Doesn’t Matter My latest tiny tool is a three-action shortcut that helped me quickly get all the new descriptions …
: I Didn’t Hate Apple’s Immersive MLS Highlights Reel I just watched the Apple Immersive Video MLS Highlights reel that been talked about… and I didn’t …
: CSS Naked Day I saw this blog post from Dominik Schwind, writing for lostfocus.de, about CSS Naked Day: It’s CSS …
: 7 Things This Week [#139] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: PenPal with Ratika: What does the sky look like where you are? For the PenPal Project this month, I’m chatting with Ratika Deshpande, as writer’s writer — in that …
: RE: ‘Goodbye Micro.blog’ Being the Micro.blog advocate that I am (read this whole thing with that grain of salt), I’m always …
: Digital Toolmaker If you’re new around here, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I love building shortcuts. I have 579 …
: PenPaling With Valerie: Ramadan Updates, Crampons, Photoblogging, and More on Worldly Travel From my latest exchange with Valerie V.: You said, “posting a photo every day is quite a …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Routes I Climbed in Red Rocks) This Week [#138] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Micro.blog is becoming the fabric of the open social web of your dreams Manton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, with some pretty momentous news on this Easter Sunday: Some …
: Micro.blog is becoming the fabric of the open social web of your dreams Manton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, with some pretty momentous news on this Easter Sunday: Some …
: Scott Yu-Jan’s Macintosh Studio I know I just shared a bunch of links in 7 Things, but then I saw this video from Scott Yu-Jan. WOW! …
: 7 Things This Week [#137] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: My Wishes for AirPods (4th gen) This isn’t a novel thing to say, but I’m a big fan of AirPods. I’ve named them as my most …
: All eBooks Are Not Created Equal I got a nasty surprise when I purchased an “ebook” version of a climbing manual this week. I thought …
: All eBooks Are Not Created Equal I got a nasty surprise when I purchased an “ebook” version of a climbing manual this …
: Now, March 2024 Taking a page out of Maique’s book and trying a more bite-sized /now update. 🏋️♀️ A weight has …
: Study Abroad, Hobbies, and Blogging Origins with Valerie V “Being a PenPal with someone in Kyrgyzstan” is not something that I would have had on my Bingo card …
: 7 Things This Week [#136] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: I just updated my ‘Publish to Micro.blog’ shortcut to version 1.1: Added a setup step to specify …
: I’ve been awake for far too long!
: Shortcuts Tips: Creating Fallbacks When I build shortcuts, I like to think through all the usual ways that someone might want to use …
: One a Month Club I wrote the other night, after several hours of keyboard-mashing, mouse-clicking, and DNS-wrangling: …
: The whole Apple vs. DMA thing has me feeling unenthusiastic, and it could have been so much better I’ve not weighed in on Apple’s battle with the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act because, …
: First Letters with Valerie Hey, would you look at that? My first PenPal of 2024 is Valerie from Micro.blog! Although we missed …
: 7 Things This Week [#135] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#134] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 30 I’ve been busy the last few days, so I’m taking advantage of this extra leap day that February has …
: 7 Things (Which Are My HomeKit Tips) This Week [#133] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Crashing Clockwise #541: ‘Peripherereral Free’ In which I turn one of my favorite podcasts into blogging fodder each week. “The tech podcast where …
: 7 Things This Week [#132] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#132] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Apple Return Policy PSA PSA for folks looking to get the most out of a generous return period/policy:1 From Apple, you get …
: So Much To Do It’s already been a pretty full day that started at 5AM this morning, but I have a bit of free time …
: Crashing Clockwise #540: ‘I Did Something Bad’ “The tech podcast that runs at 30 frames per second.” Audio narration generated using …
: 7 Things This Week [#131] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Crashing Clockwise #539: ‘You Folks Need Some Help’ Another week, another (belated) edition of Crashing Clockwise! Audio narration generated using …
: 7 Things This Week [#130] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#129] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #538: ‘If I Lose It, I’ll Die’ A 🚀 reunion, 📱 widgets, 🐻 controversy, 🔐 …
: Crashing Clockwise #538: ‘If I Lose It, I’ll Die’ What is dead may never die, so it’s so nice to see Christina and Simone together on a Relay podcast …
: 🆕📝 Happy 40th, Mac A birthday message to the good ol' Macintosh as it enters its 4th decade. 🥳
: Happy 40th, Mac You’ve been around for a decade longer than I’ve been alive, and yet I feel a kinship in age. Maybe …
: 🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #537: ‘All I Found Were Three Apple TV Remotes’ This week, I contemplate …
: Crashing Clockwise #537: ‘All I Found Were Three Apple TV Remotes’ Welcome back to the show, freshly-unfrozen host emeritus, Jason Snell. Audio narration …
: 🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#128] ▶️, 🍿, 🫨, 🧑🍳, 🪟, 🔍, and 🍎. Plus 5️⃣2️⃣💿, and 🐍📦.
: 7 Things This Week [#128] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 🆕📝 Overcast’s Breakout “New” Feature Is Play With a Purpose
: Overcast’s Breakout “New” Feature Is Play With a Purpose Overcast, the podcast app by the internet’s Marco Arment, has long reigned supreme in the podcast …
: 🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #536: ‘Spay and Neuter Your Pets’
: 🆕📝 Letters Project Becomes the PenPals Project
: Crashing Clockwise #536: ‘Spay and Neuter Your Pets’ This week’s conversation was quite lively! I loved the bonus theme effects! Audio narration …
: Letters Project Becomes the PenPals Project I spent some time over the last week (and a lot today) reworking the Letters project into the …
: 🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#127]
: 7 Things This Week [#127] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 🆕📝 The Best Top Rope Setup Video I’ve Ever Found (And Why I Think It Makes an Superb Example of an …
: The Best Top Rope Setup Video I’ve Ever Found (And Why I Think It Makes an Superb Example of an Instructional Video in General) For any climbers out there, this is far and away the best video I’ve come across (and I’ve watched a …
: 🆕📝 Artifact Shuts Down Just as I Was Getting Into It
: Artifact Shuts Down Just as I Was Getting Into It Kevin Systrom, CEO and co-founder of Artifact, on its Medium blog: We’ve made the decision to wind …
: 🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#126]
: 7 Things This Week [#126] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 🆕📝 24 Apple Predictions for 2024
: 24 Apple Predictions for 2024 Making predictions right before each Apple event is too easy — there’s all the rumors these days! …
: 🆕📝 Please, Own Your RSS Links
: Please, Own Your RSS Links If you have an internet presence with an RSS feed — and you should — please do yourself and all your …
: 🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #534: ‘It’s Even Embarrassing in Metric’
: Crashing Clockwise #535: ‘It’s Even Embarrassing in Metric’ Happy New Year y’all! And welcome, Meg; it’s always exciting when there’s a brand-new guest here on …
: After many hours and many, many trials, I’ve finally figured out how to automate crossposting …
: A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who have been putting in the work to help …
: A recent chilly excursion to Avalanche Lake. ❄️ 📷
: No-Shave November to Fresh-Face December. Photos were taken minutes apart. 😳 📷
: Go go he did! I was surprised he still has this much left in the tank after all the up and down! 💪 📷 …
: I completed the pre-December trifecta by getting in my first Nordic ski of the year today. All the …
: Got in my first ice climb of the year, and before December 1st! Felt great to swing some tools again …
: Got down for a second Gunks trip this week and was so glad I did. Ticked off a few more classics and …
: Yesterday’s adventure: 5 pitches of über-classic Gunks routes with a dear friend. A crisp, late fall …
: Oooh! Look what just arrived! I’m in for some light reading! 📚 📷
: Had a blast in the (very) wet Lake Placid Classic Half Marathon today! 🏃♂️ 📷
: I don’t climb alone often, but tonight it was sublime. 📷
: Big props to Lucas on crushing the lead of Roaches on the Wall (5.10) last night. Made it look easy, …
: 🧗 Led up this gem today with @gerard! The Disputed (5.8) is the hardest trad lead I’ve done since …
: Got over to Cloudspin Cliff with Matt Oaks and @saw_dust_ery last night. Cool cliff with awesome …
: lol 😂 Instagram suggested creating this Reel. 📷
: Hopped up Empress → Greensleeves (5.6) at Chapel Pond Slab today with the great @saw_dust_ery. …
: Looks like we’re gonna be New Yorkers for a bit…we bought our own piece of the Adirondacks! 😁 📷
: Big bro, little bro. But which is which? 📷
: No Mow May was a success. I hope the bees and other pollinators enjoyed the head start in our yard …
: 🆕📝 Year-End Surprise Product Launches Can’t Come Cheap
: Year-End Surprise Product Launches Can’t Come Cheap Michael Steeber, in his latest Tabletops newsletter: For a moment over the holiday break, Apple …
: 🆕📝 Quick Tip: Check the Laser of Your Magic Mouse
: The Impossible List Through AJ Bourg’s site, I recently become aware of the impossible list: A bucket list is focused …
: Quick Tip: Check the Laser of Your Magic Mouse Ever find that your cursor is acting sluggish on screen? Maybe it jumps around slightly but you …
: 🆕📝 52 Things I Learned in 2023
: 52 Things I Learned in 2023 Following in the footsteps of Tom Whitwell, this past year I bought a house, completed climbing …
: 🆕📝 A Breakout Year for HeyDingus
: A Breakout Year for HeyDingus If you’ll allow me a moment of introspection, I’d love to offer my thanks at the end of the year to …
: 🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are Seven of My Favorite Numbers Because It’s New Year’s Eve and I Have Company …
: 🆕📝 My Desk as We Round Out 2023
: 🆕📝 Letters with Austin #3, December 2023
: 7 Things (Which Are Seven of My Favorite Numbers Because It’s New Year’s Eve and I Have Company Over and No Time) This Week [#125] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: My Desk as We Round Out 2023 Presented without sanitization or explanation. There it is. ⌘ Adios, 2023! 🎉
: Letters with Austin #3, December 2023 (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ I’m chatting with Austin for the PenPals project this month. …
: 🆕📝 I Made a Bookmarklet That Runs a Shortcut on a URL
: 🆕📝 The Secrets App Makes a Good iCloud Passwords Companion and Is Free Today Thanks to Indie App …
: I Made a Bookmarklet That Runs a Shortcut on a URL Holy smokes, I can’t believe I never thought about doing this before. Probably because I never …
: 🆕📝 Current writing progress…
: The Secrets App Makes a Good iCloud Passwords Companion and Is Free Today Thanks to Indie App Santa If you, like me, are considering a switch from 1Password to iCloud Passwords & Keychain, you …
: Current writing progress… I’ve got some time, I’ll write up a few of those blog posts on the back burner! [Starts writing and …
: Current writing progress… I’ve got some time, I’ll write up a few of those blog posts on the back burner! [Starts writing and …
: 🆕📝 ‘The Too-Slick Apple Event’
: ‘The Too-Slick Apple Event’ M.G. Siegler started to raise my hackles when he wrote on his 500ish blog about how Apple’s latest …
: 🆕📝 RSS as Mastodon? Maybe not. But RSS on Mastodon? Maybe!
: RSS as Mastodon? Maybe not. But RSS on Mastodon? Maybe! Brent Simmons, writing for inessential.com on the viability of shoehorning his RSS reader app into …
: 🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #534: ‘Live From the North Pole’
: 🆕📝 ‘An update on Prime Video’
: Crashing Clockwise #534: ‘Live From the North Pole’ I very much enjoyed this holiday and year-end-themed episode of Clockwise. Audio narration …
: ‘An update on Prime Video’ Amazon, in an email tonight: We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime …
: 🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Christmas Movies in No Particular Order) This Week [#124]
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Christmas Movies in No Particular Order) This Week [#124] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 🆕📝 Letters with Austin #2, December 2023
: Letters with Austin #2, December 2023 (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ I’m chatting with Austin for the PenPals project this month. Our …
: 🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #533: ‘I’m the App’
: 🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#123]
: Crashing Clockwise #533: ‘I’m the App’ My first episode with the incomparable(’s) Jason Snell! Audio narration generated using …
: 7 Things This Week [#123] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#122]
: 7 Things This Week [#122] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (or occasionally on …
: Crashing Clockwise #532: ‘Oh, My Poor Nose!’ Sorry I’m late guys! I just wasn’t watching the clock closely enough, I guess. But I wouldn’t miss …
: Letters with Austin #1, December 2023 (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ My correspondent for the PenPals project this month is Austin …
: Crashing Clockwise #531: ‘I, Too, Like You’ Another Wednesday Sunday, another crashing of Clockwise. Being the fly on the wall of these …
: 7 Things This Week [#121] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 50% Off Phone Cases from the HeyDingus Store Just wanted to pass along a message that Cotton Bureau, where I host the HeyDingus Store, is having …
: Letters with Kev, November 2023 [#3] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ Kev Quirk and I exchanged our final letter for the PenPals …
: Personal Voice: A triumph (and a request) I finally got around to creating a Personal Voice on my iPhone the other day. I had big plans for …
: Apple is Accused of Censorship Again in the TV+ Department Jess Weatherbed, reporting for The Verge on the terse words Robert De Niro had for Apple after part …
: Marcos Tanaka’s Play 2.0 If you’re the kind of person who likes to save articles to read later, you’re going to wonder how …
: Two-Sentence Reviews of Some Gizmos I Got In celebration of the cyberiest of Mondays (and because I’m apparently not dutiful enough to write …
: 7 Things This Week [#120] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Not So Fuzzy Feelings About ‘Fuzzy Feelings’ I wasn’t going to say anything about Apple’s traditional holiday short, but after reading Andy …
: Mac Reincarnation Diary: The Plan Pays Off This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for months. Nobody was asking for it, but I feel like …
: Crashing Clockwise #530: ‘The Noise of the Youth’ Heyo, it’s so good to be back for my third episode of Clockwise in a row! Has any other guest ever …
: A Few Rambly Thoughts About Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Movie I went into the Taylor Swift Eras Tour movie expecting something along the lines of Hamilton. A …
: Letters with Kev, November 2023 [#2] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ Kev Quirk and I did our latest exchange with for the PenPals …
: Got your PlayStation plugged into Ethernet? You might still be getting Wi-Fi speeds. Here’s how to fix it. You know how sometimes you stumble across bits of information that feel like they were packaged up …
: 7 Things This Week [#119] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Crashing Clockwise #529: ‘Dear Tim Apple, You Fix It’ Hey guys, thanks for having me back on this 529th episode of Clockwise! I didn’t hear my audio get …
: Crashing Clockwise #529: ‘Dear Tim Apple, You Fix It’ Hey guys, thanks for having me back on this 529th episode of Clockwise! I didn’t hear my audio get …
: AI Idea: Catch Up on RSS All this talk about creating custom GPTs has gotten me brainstorming. Here’s an AI idea that I’d …
: 7 Things This Week [#118] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: On TV+ and the Cunning Strategy of the Apple One Bundle Pricing Regarding many of us reconsidering Apple’s services amid their price increase, it struck me that TV+ …
: Crashing Clockwise #528: ‘The Jeweled Dung Beetle’ Hey, I’m so excited to be here on episode #528 of Clockwise with you all! Long-time listener, …
: Letters with Robert, Fall 2023 [#3] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ For the PenPals project this month, I’m corresponding with Robert …
: First Impressions of Humane’s Ai Pin Humane, the secretive company that has slowly been pulling back the curtain on their ambitions, …
: Time to take the pin out of what Humane’s been up to David Pierce at The Verge got a day-early scoop on that Ai Pin from Humane: The Pin itself is a …
: Letters with Kev, November 2023 [#1] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ For the PenPals project this month, I’m corresponding with Kev …
: Letters with Robert, Fall 2023 [#2] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ For the PenPals project this month, I’m corresponding with Robert …
: 7 Things This Week [#117] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: The iMac Pro will not rise phoenix-like from the ashes after all. Maybe. Dan Seifert, writing for The Verge: Apple will not be making an Apple Silicon version of the …
: Duel of the Defaults! Jarrod Enters the Ring In the fantastic podcast-turned-game-show episode (#097) of Hemispheric Views, Andrew Canion hosted …
: Thoughts On (And Reactions To) Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Event Honestly, I should just link to Devon Dundee’s post and be done with it, but that would be too easy. …
: October 2023 ‘Scary Fast’ Event: The HeyDingus Live Blog Apple’s most intriguing event of the year is about to start. My final ‘Scary Fast’ event …
: ‘Oh God, It’s Raining Newsletters’ Craig Mod, newsletter author extraordinaire: A lot of this newsletter writing is happening, …
: 7 Things This Week [#116] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Finally “Clicking” with the Magic Trackpad My wife and I moved into our new home several months ago. I was slow to unpack things and even took …
: ‘The Aftermath of a Massacre Is Always the Time to Push for Gun Legislation’ John Gruber, writing for Daring Fireball, after new House Speaker Mike Johnson repeats the old party …
: Considering Apple’s Oddball ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Week Just this morning, I was listening to Myke Hurley and Jason Snell on Upgrade discuss the dueling …
: macOS Sonoma Web Apps Save Me From Constant Discord Updates I’m an infrequent user of Discord, but I do hop in there from time to time checking in on various …
: Bight Gear is joining Black Diamond…get their stuff now while you can! I discovered Bight Gear last year when attempting a summit of Mount Rainer with the RMI Expeditions …
: You know, I think Apple won its bet on those gold watches I wonder if we should consider Apple’s experiment with ludicrously-priced gold Apple Watches as …
: 7 Things This Week [#115] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘Speak Screen’ was the final piece to my ideal read-it-later setup I recently wrote about my discovery of the ‘Speak Selection’ feature in Accessibility settings. The …
: The Spiciest of New Apple Pencil Hot Takes I like collecting reactions to product announcements on Apple Event days. But today’s deluge of …
: Letters with Robert, October 2023 [#1] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ For the PenPals project this month, I’m corresponding with Robert …
: Letters with Jason, Belated [#3] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ Back in July for the PenPals project, I was corresponding with …
: Has Google Safeguarded Its New AI Photo Features or Not? I’m having a hard time reconciling this assertion by Jay Peters for The Verge that Google didn’t …
: Panzarino on what happens if you cancel iTunes Match when you have Apple Music I’ve seen a number of posts from folks who, 8 years after its features were essentially duplicated …
: Retail iPhone Updater Could Be Awesome — and an Awesome Pain for Employees Mark Gurman, in his latest Power On newsletter: Apple is planning a new system for its retail …
: 7 Things This Week [#114] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#113] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Sean Hollister: ‘Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless’ Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge about Google supposed 7-year guaranteed updates for the Pixel …
: (Rope) Solo I went rock climbing alone tonight. Not the bonkers, ropeless, free solo (yes, that Free Solo) …
: My Appearance on ‘Really Specific Stories’ I’m delighted to share that I was the most recent guest on Martin Feld’s Really Specific Stories …
: T-Mobile’s $10 iPad cellular plan is the best deal in data For so much of what we do on our devices these days, having a connection to the internet is …
: 7 Things (Which Are Great Limited-Run Podcast Series You’ll Love) This Week [#112] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#111] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: These Are Not the Consoles You’re Looking For All of this talk from Apple about the iPhone 15 Pro with the A17 Pro chip inside being “the best …
: Call People (and Things) What They Ask To Be Called There’s no reason not to call people what they want to be called. We all go through transitions of …
: How I Automatically Include a Blog Description in My RSS Feed I’ve been asked a couple of times how I get this short site description to be included in every …
: HeyDingus for Relay FM for St. Jude for Ending Childhood Cancer TL;DR: Donate here to help end childhood cancer. You’re gonna like the way you feel donating to St. …
: 7 Things This Week [#110] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: So That’s What They Do With All the Old iMacs As is the case with most Tim Cook interviews, there wasn’t much substance in this CBS one with John …
: Viticci’s Very Good™ Lede I’ve only just started reading Federico Viticci’s review of iOS and iPadOS 17 on MacStories. But the …
: Brief Thoughts After Apple’s Wonderlust Event I didn’t get to watch the event live today, and I haven’t checked out any other coverage. So here’s …
: Gruber: ‘Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy’ John Gruber got down in writing what’s been rattling around my head for a few years now. The regular …
: Brief Thoughts Before Apple’s Wonderlust Event Later today, the world will be introduced to Apple’s latest and greatest. If Apple follows its …
: 7 Things This Week [#109] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things (Which Are All Trust Clicks) This Week [#108] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things (Which Are All Trust Clicks) This Week [#108] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Yep, Everyone Is Right. Callsheet Is Great. Casey Liss, describing his new app Callsheet: Callsheet, in short, allows you to look up movies, TV …
: 7 Things This Week [#107] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Alt Text is (Actually) Enabled on Threads Over the years, I’ve become more passionate about making the web an ever more accessible place. At a …
: Why my internet presence has been quiet this past week:
: 7 Things This Week [#106] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#106] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: This is a post to test creating a new image gallery using the Tiny Theme.
: Welcome to your test blog! You can create new posts here to test theme and design changes.
: ‘Google’s Reading Mode app for Android can save you from the worst of web design’ Dan Seifert, writing for The Verge: (emphasis added is mine) Reading Mode was released late last …
: Alt Text is (Maybe) Enabled on Threads Devon Dundee, on Threads last week: Alt text for images is now available in Threads! A great step …
: Quick Tip: Get Visual Narration Anywhere There’s Text It’s no secret that I’ve become enamored with listening to web articles being read aloud to me. I’ve …
: ‘The past is not true’ Derek Sivers: Seems we had both been told the accident was our fault, and had spent eighteen years …
: 7 Things This Week [#105] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: “Reading” the Web Could Get Way More Intimate With Personal Voice I’m terribly excited about the possibilities that Personal Voice will unlock. I imagine a future …
: Shortcuts Tips: Use One-Action ‘Run Shortcut’ Shortcuts to Create Alternative Launch Phrases and to Build the Widgets You Want I’ve got a twofer tip today, and it’s all in the title. Help Siri Out a Little Bit Sometimes it’s …
: Shortcuts Tips: Use One-Action ‘Run Shortcut’ Shortcuts to Create Alternative Launch Phrases and to Build the Widgets You Want I’ve got a twofer tip today, and it’s all in the title. Help Siri Out a Little Bit Sometimes …
: Yet Another Opinion on X I suppose since this is the place where I showcase my opinions, I should register one for the …
: Instapaper Has Reentered the Ring Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in. From the Instapaper blog: We just launched updates …
: Threads Graduates to Being a Social Network Where You Can Actually, You Know, Follow People Chris Lawley on Threads: If you don’t see the Following tab, try double tapping the Home button. …
: Joshua Benton: ‘If other media companies thought about brand equity the way Elon Musk thinks about Twitter’s (er, X’s)’ Joshua Benton, in perfect post for Nieman Lab: In the spirit of Tronc, Elon Musk has decided to …
: Ars Technica: ‘Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo’ The USA is about to finally catch up to the rest of the world which has been enjoying instant …
: 7 Things This Week [#104] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Letters with Jason, July 2023 [#2] (Image inspiration: José Muñoz) ⌘ For the Letters project this month, I’m corresponding with Jason …
: Alan Dye was interviewed on ‘Design Matters’, and it reminded me that he’s just a person The Design Matters with Debbie Millman podcast: As Vice President of Human Interface Design at …
: Tiny Awards Wants Your Vote for the Slickest Mini Internet Project The finalists in the Tiny Awards are all incredibly clever little internet projects that push on …
: Tiny Awards Wants Your Vote for the Slickest Mini Internet Project The finalists in the Tiny Awards are all incredibly clever little internet projects that push on …
: Quick Tip: Use CleanShot X to Pin and Edit Any Image Today I realized that you can enable a Share Extension for CleanShot X to pin any image to the …
: Shortcuts Tips: Techniques Behind the ‘Convert Text and Post to Threads’ Shortcut Threads has taken the world by storm and established new playbooks, and although it isn’t my …
: 7 Things This Week [#103] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Ongoing Sale at the HeyDingus Store Deals! Deals! Deals! ⌘ Just a quick note to let you know that, thanks to the folks at Cotton …
: Might Threads Instigate Instagram’s Unraveling? TL;DR: Yes. The Instagram app is already too full by the admission of its product leader, and I …
: The Best-Looking MagSafe Stand Out There Matthew Cassinelli, with a glowing review of the Belkin 2-in-1 MagSafe Stand which looks perfect for …
: Shortcuts Tips: Using ‘Show Alert’ for More Flexibility On the same day I learned that the ‘Show Result’ action has gotten way more useful than ‘Show Alert’ …
: Shortcuts Tips: Use ‘Show Result’ for Troubleshooting Using the ‘Show Alert’ action copiously throughout the testing phase of building a shortcut has been …
: It’s a Prime Day to Try an Indie App Have you heard? We’re in the middle of one of the biggest shopping events of the year! Not that one, …
: Mac Reincarnation Diary: I’m A Little Worried I’ve been meaning to do a “nuke and pave” of my Mac mini for a couple of years now. Enough little …
: 9to5Mac: ‘Porsche unveils revamped CarPlay experience with climate controls and more’ Chance Miller, writing for 9to5Mac: Using the My Porsche app, drivers can adjust settings, …
: Letters with Jason, July 2023 [#1] (Image inspiration: José Muñoz) ⌘ For the PenPals project this month, I’ll be corresponding with …
: Kyle Bradshaw: ‘Threads readies handy explainer of Mastodon and the fediverse’ Kyle Bradshaw, writing for 9to5Google: To address that, the latest Threads beta update [for …
: Demystifying RSS and Other Subscriptions With a /Feeds Page A little meta1 post tonight. Earlier today, I created a /feeds page that (1) lists all the ways you …
: 7 Things This Week [#102] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Threaded Thoughts Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you probably know that Instagram (AKA Meta, AKA Facebook) …
: I Can’t “Just Call Them Tweets” Alex Cranz, writing for The Verge: But you know what other word you can say in polite company …
: Every Service Should Allow Domains as Handles I know they’re not the new hotness this week, but an update from the team at Bluesky reminded me …
: ‘Maybe Zuck is Winning the Fight With Elon Anyway’ Stephen Hackett, with the most realistic Threads take so far: So as Twitter continues to evolve …
: 7 Things This Week [#101] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Blank Page? Never Met Her. Sebastian, writing for their Bear Blog: The reason why I didn’t start a blog in the last five …
: Elon Thinks You’re Reading Too Many Tweets Wes Davis and Richard Lawler, writing for The Verge about the new 800 tweet per day limit for …
: Letters with Chris V, June 2023 [#3] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ This is a peak at my final correspondence with Chris V (as …
: A Short Ramble About Welcoming Meta to the Open Social Web I welcome Meta/Instagram to the open social web (Fediverse). There’s a 0% chance I could get my …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite 7 Things Posts Thus Far) This Week [#100] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘Why Ford Betting on Tesla’s Plug is Bad News’ I’m beginning to think I was wrong to applaud Ford’s decision to adopt Tesla’s EV charger (AKA the …
: Letters with Chris V, June 2023 [#2] (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ Here’s a look my our second exchange with Chris, as summarized …
: 7 Things This Week [#99] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: In Praise of Apple Mail VIPs…from a Non-Apple Mail User I’ve gotta say, the ease and simplicity of VIP contacts in Apple Mail are working exactly as …
: The Apple History Calendar is Back! I could not have backed Stephen Hackett’s third annual Apple history-themed calendar any faster. …
: Oh, Hey, My Mastodon Followers Have Surpassed Twitter Ones This isn’t terribly interesting, but perhaps noteworthy all the same: the @HeyDingus account on …
: 7 Things This Week [#98] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: WWDC23: Friday’s Tidbits Okay, let’s do this one last time. 9to5Mac put out this iPadOS 17 overview video a couple of days …
: Apple Shows Its Star-Studded Strategy by Securing Messi for Season Pass John Gruber, writing for Daring Fireball about how Apple reportedly sweetened the deal for Lionel …
: WWDC23: Thursday’s Tidbits Here we go again! Things seem to be winding down, which is good because my brain feels a bit washed …
: WWDC23: Wednesday’s Tidbits Another day, another set of treasures uncovered. Downloads that will take more than 1 minute now …
: Grading My WWDC Keynote Predictions (And Introducing My Ongoing List of Apple Wishes) Everyone makes predictions on what Apple will introduce at its events, but who goes back to grade …
: A Couple of Podcast Recommendations I happened to listen to two1 excellent podcast episodes this morning, one right after the other, and …
: Macs at WWDC Mean the Entire M2 Laptop Lineup Is Part of the Back to School Promo for Students Over at 9to5Mac, Zac Hall has some happy news for students: Customers can shop for a new Mac or …
: Letters with V, June 2023 [#1] (Image inspiration: José Muñoz) ⌘ For the PenPals project this month, I’ll be corresponding with …
: WWDC23: The Day After - Some Skepticism and Questions Yesterday was full of excitement, even over here near the East Coast. I didn’t get to bed until …
: WWDC23: Tuesday’s Tidbits The first developer sessions have been released and ever more new software bits that didn’t make the …
: WWDC23: My Initial Keynote Reflection and the Features I’m Most Jazzed About Wow, what a day. First of all, hats off to all the teams at Apple who poured themselves into …
: WWDC23: Monday’s Tidbits and Community Reactions One of my favorite things after any Apple event is scouring the product pages, accompanying videos, …
: WWDC23: The Peanut Gallery’s Best Keynote Jokes The folks in my Micro.blog timeline are a witty bunch. One day I hope to quip as well as them. I’ve …
: WWDC23: The HeyDingus Keynote Live Blog It’s like Christmas morning for all the Apple junkies out there! I hope you’ve hit the bathroom and …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Last-Minute WWDC23 Predictions) This Week [#97] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Why I Happily Spent $70 on an App I Almost Ignored I gotta hand it to Gentler Streak, the health app that encourages more sustainable exercise. Its …
: Letters with Jose: May 31, 2023 (Image: Jose Munoz) ⌘ This is my third and final letter exchange with José, as summarized by …
: Two of My Favorite Bits of Reader That I Wish Were Replicated in Every Other Reading App My search for the perfect read—later app may never be complete, but along the way, I find delightful …
: My WWDC 2023 Wish List WWDC23 is officially one week away, and my anticipation is building. After a year of being somewhat …
: Apple’s Awesome Accessibility Animation If you didn’t check out Apple’s Accessibility page earlier this month when they announced new …
: A Few New Experiments At HeyDingus I’ve had some things bouncing around my mind for a while that I’ve wanted to try out on HeyDingus. …
: 7 Things This Week [#96] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Escaping the Bubble With Bear Blogs Not too long ago, Greg Morris asked, “I need some more RSS feeds in my life. Who’s in your feed that …
: 1Password Embraces No Passwords As I Consider No 1Password Jess Weatherbed, writing for The Verge: 1Password customers are finally gaining access to the …
: The Most Popular Mac Isn’t the MacBook Air. Wait, What? Michael Potuck, recapping a CIRP report on the best-selling Mac models for 9to5Mac: When it comes …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Go-To Camping Essentials) This Week [#95] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (and sometimes …
: CarPlay Customization Paper Cuts Right before WWDC always seems to be when my software paper cuts sting the most. It’s probably …
: Is Ford the Goodie? First, publicly backing CarPlay, and now adopting the Tesla charging plug standard. This is the …
: Letters with Jose: May 18, 2023 (Image: José Muñoz) ⌘ Here’s a glimpse of my second exchange with José, as summarized by ChatGPT: …
: 7 Things This Week [#94] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: What Even Is E2E Encryption, Then? Jay Peters, writing for The Verge: Encrypted DMs currently have a few limitations and a very big …
: 9to5Mac: ‘Apple’s former head of iCloud will be in charge of making GM EV software without CarPlay’ Oooh draaamaa! Zac Hall’s headline says it all, but don’t miss this spicy take near the end of his …
: Some Quick Observations on Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro for iPad Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro for iPad look so powerful. It’s a good day for iPad creators and …
: The Verge: ‘What’s it like on Bluesky right now, anyways?’ Sarah Jeong, with an incredible story for The Verge on what’s happening over on Bluesky, the newest …
: I Pre-Ordered a Can of Worms I noticed this evening while perusing the App Store — yes, some of us still do that from …
: 7 Things This Week [#93] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: John Gruber on ‘Dithering’ John Gruber, with a short reminder about his twice weekly, 15-minute hard stop, paid subscriber …
: Letters with Jose: May 5, 2023 (Image: José Muñoz) ⌘ For the PenPals project this month, I’ll be corresponding with José Muñoz. …
: Seeking Letters Project Correspondents! It’s time to try something new! I’ve been inspired by Jason Becker’s Letters project this year. Each …
: 7 Things (I Learned From Aunt Joan) This Week [#92] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#91] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: When the Fear Bites I met a buddy, Lucas, and a new friend, Nancy, today to go rock climbing after a lazy morning …
: David Smith: ‘Stretched’ “Underscore” David Smith, with the perfect analogy for that post-grind feeling of aimlessness: …
: Apple Rides the ‘Ted Lasso’ Train Hard With New Apple Fitness+ “Workouts to Believe In” Apple Fitness+ has rolled out new Ted Lasso-inspired Fitness+ workouts, as noted by Michael Potuck …
: Apple Card and Its Savings Account Are Great, And Why I’m Still Not Sold On Tuesday, Apple launched its latest foray into the financial sector: a Savings account tied to the …
: MacLife Magazine’s Ink Runs Dry Harry McCraken, writing for Technologizer: But I’m not writing this article because the dead-tree …
: From Should Have to Could Have Keith Wagner, writing for his “kind of a climbing blog” Chasing Hawks: There’s no such thing as …
: 7 Things This Week [#90] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Surprise Tesla Feature: Your Personal Car Videos Can Go Viral Around Their Offices. Cool, Right? A damning and shocking, yet utterly unsurprising, report from Reuters about the lack of respect for …
: Apple’s Newsroom Blog Debuts New ‘Quick Read’ Post Tonight, I noticed something curious about Apple’s latest post to their official Newsroom, a blog of …
: Dark Noise Does the Subscription Transition Right Dark Noise, the best-in-class white noise app, is out with version 3.0 and introduces — among other …
: 7 Things This Week [#89] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Matt Birchler: ‘I’m Once Again Defending Like Buttons’ Matt Birchler, writing for his excellent blog: I think of likes on social media kind of like …
: 7 Things This Week [#88] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: The Best In-App Feedback System Yet I can’t get over how well done the feature suggestion and bug reporting flow is in Readwise Reader. …
: GM Ditches CarPlay in EVs Despite It Being a Must-Have for 79% of US Buyers Joseph White, writing for Reuters: General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and …
: Micro.blog Gains Automatic Podcast Transcripts (Yep, They Also Do Podcasts!) Manton Reece on an exciting new feature addition to their podcasting platform: We’ve launched a new …
: ‘The new normal’ Jason Fried on his HEY World blog: First it starts as an outlier. Some behavior you don’t love, but …
: ‘Rewind’s new feature brings ChatGPT to your personal information’ Are you ready for the next mind-blowing frontier for these “AI Chatbots” that are taking the world …
: 7 Things This Week [#87] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Know When To Fold Them Yours truly, back in June of 2021, writing about Apple being tight-lipped on which features in macOS …
: ‘Good conversations have lots of doorknobs’ Adam Mastroianni, writing for their Substack newsletter, Experimental History: It turns out that we …
: ‘A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece’ Srini Kadamati, a data visualizer, waxing eloquent on the virtues of the dearly departed Dark Sky …
: ‘Don’t be a knee-jerk’ Jason Fried on building systems that encourage thoughtful consideration of new ideas: We don’t want …
: 7 Things (Shared by ChatGPT) This Week [#86] A weekly list of interesting things I ChatGPT found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes …
: 7 Things This Week [#85] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: The Yellow iPhone 14 Premiers at the ‘Ted Lasso’ Premier Apple is nothing if not coordinated. Just yesterday, Apple released the yellow iPhone 14 and it’s …
: The Kindest Developer in the App Store Reaches 100 Million Downloads Underscore David Smith, on his blog: Widgetsmith has just achieved a remarkable milestone, …
: Apple’s iMessage Movie Apple had (too much?) fun with showcasing iMessages in the ghosting theme of this trailer for their …
: Switching It Up? Stephen Hackett, writing at 512 Pixels on the rumor that the iPhone’s ringer switch will be changing …
: 7 Things This Week [#84] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#84] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 29 I’m a day late, but I just turned 29. This will be the last year of my 20s and the last of my third …
: 7 Things This Week [#83] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Steve Jobs in February of 1984 From Leslie Berlin in a Steve Jobs Archive email update: One evening after the event, as they were …
: Underscore Underscores Scoring Not Scorching Developer guru, badass hiker, and the diligently, quietly successful “Underscore” David Smith on the …
: Trying Out Being a Tech “Normy” For the first time in many years, I didn’t install any beta software on my devices. Rather than live …
: Spotify’s AI DJ Will Let the Recommendation Engine Explain Itself The weird and wonderful AI projects are start to come fast and furious. Spotify got a mic drop …
: ‘Putting Ideas into Words’ Paul Graham, with some striking thoughts on how writing focuses, refines, develops, and communicates …
: 7 Things (I Learned From Grandpa) [#82] My remaining grandfather passed away this past week. He was a foundational figure in my life, a role …
: Relearning to Tie My Shoes They say you learn something new every day. But it’s not every day that you newly learn an old …
: 1Password 8 Gets a Quality of Life Update I’ll be honest, I stopped reading the version 8.10.0 update release notes after getting to the …
: ‘Ted Lasso’ Will Premiere on Wednesdays Next Month Some happy news this Valentine’s Day from Apple TV+ Press: Following its history-making, …
: How to Get Blog Posts by Email TL;DR: You can now subscribe to HeyDingus posts by email to receive my blog posts in your inbox. I’m …
: 7 Things This Week [#81] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘648 words about my one-word resolution’ Liz Gumbinner: And so that is the advice I now pass on to those of you who, like me, can feel …
: Chief People Officer Enters the Chat It’s not everyday that the core leadership team at Apple sees a change. Here’s Chance Miller, …
: ‘Tehran’ Is Coming Back With Hugh Laurie We’re onto third(!) seasons for many Apple TV+ shows: Apple TV+ today announced that its …
: iPhone Ultra, Apple Watch-Edition? The longer I look at it, the more I like this render by Jonas Daehnert. An iPhone Ultra in titanium, …
: 7 Things This Week [#80] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Yet Another Knock Against Crash Detection Matt Richtel, writing for The New York Times (Internet Archive): “My whole day is managing crash …
: ‘Trying to sum up my thoughts on Readwise Reader’ Greg Morris: Trying to sum up my thoughts on Readwise Reader So, I’m stuck trying to pin down …
: New Designs at the HeyDingus Store I haven’t posted about them in a while, but I’ve got some new stuff up at the HeyDingus Store. Stuff …
: Haikus for Winter Towering ice glows, Shimmers, glitters; a palace Frozen, yet vital A warm breath of life Vapor …
: Now, January 2023 Simplifying my Now page so that I’m more motivated to keep it updated Ice climbing as much as …
: 7 Things This Week [#79] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#78] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Sven’s Excellent Fediverse Explanation The ever-helpful Sven Dahlstrand (@sod) on Micro.blog: You know how email is this cool thing that …
: Loving ‘More Space’ Mode on iPad I gotta say, one of my favorite features to come out of iPadOS 16 this year has been the increased …
: Well Played, Apple Whelp, they got me. Whereas yesterday there was none, today there exists a HomePod for the HomePod …
: A Few Thoughts on Today’s M2 Pro/Max Macs Although for a while there, Apple seemed like the only company rallying against “speeds and feeds”, …
: Pew Pew 9to5Mac has a nice roundup of lesser-known effects that you can activate just by sending specific …
: 7 Things This Week [#77] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘The Shit Show’ Craig Hockenberry of The Iconfactory (creator of Twitterrific), on the demise of the the Twitter API …
: Fuck It, We’re Doing Four Stars What’s the best system to rate media or products? Grades from F to A? Stars from one to five? A …
: 7 Things (That Are Random Books on My To-Read List) This Week [#76] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#75] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: 7 Things This Week [#74] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: What Can You Skip? “Who is this built for?” It’s a good question to consider from time to time. If you’re an app user, …
: Weave > Matter I really wish that ‘Weave’ had won out as the brand name for the smart home communication standard …
: We Know 10 Years Worth of Apple’s Upcoming Products Typically the most tight-lipped tech company regarding future products, Apple has intentionally …
: 7 Things This Week [#73] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Now, December 2022 🆕 What’s New? Been a while on these updates. Since March I’ve… Gotten a job at a gear/bike shop …
: 7 Things This Week [#72] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: Shortcuts Tips: Save a Decade of ‘New York Times’ Covers I happened across this article when browsing through the Shortcuts User Group tonight. It details a …
: My Wife Made Her First Automation They say that opposites attract. While I don’t think that’s always true, I will say that my wife is …
: How to Automatically Cross-Post from Instagram to Micro.blog with Make.com This blog post is adapted from a post I made to Micro.blog’s Help Center. It’s posted here for …
: Two Thumbs Up and One Thumb Down on Apple’s Data Protection Announcements Apple’s surprise move yesterday to get the rest of iCloud data1, including, critically, iCloud …
: Hey, You Can Find HeyDingus on Mastodon Now, Too I’ve got thoughts™ on Twitter, and Mastodon, and microblogging in general, but that’s a post for …
: 7 Things This Week [#71] A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, …
: ‘All Consuming’ Podcast is Back Speaking of things that are back, I’m thrilled to see that the All Consuming podcast, hosted by Noah …
: Indie App Santa Returns ’Tis the season to celebrate all independent app developers. For several years now, Indie App Santa …
: Inspect Browser for iOS Is the Tool I’ve Been Searching For If you’re working on a website and want to do fully-fledged element inspection and inline preview …
: Google Consolidates Data Permissions Across Services With a Domain Move Garrit Franke, in a short post to his blog: Yesterday I was asked to allow the usage of location …
: ‘Radical iMac Mod Shows How Apple Could Have Removed the Chin for an All-Screen Design’ Hartley Charlton, writing for MacRumors about an M1 iMac mod making the rounds: First, the iMac …
: Apple’s Striking Short Film Ahead of International Day of People with Disabilities I love seeing how other people use their devices. Everyone does it a little differently. So Apple’s …
: Fixing PopClip’s Shortcuts Issues…with Shortcuts You know how on iOS and iPadOS when you highlight text, you get that little popover menu with Copy, …
: Folder Peek App Folder Peek is the latest (free) little app from Sindre Sorhus. It’s so smack-me-in-the-head useful …
: Stop Now and Buy This iMac-Inspired Charger If you’re like me and think this tiny translucent orange wall charger by Case-Mates is one of the …
: Gurman’s Alternate iPad Lineup Mark Gurman writing in his Power On newsletter: I think the iPad line should eventually look like …
: 7 Things This Week [#70] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Hey, Thanks It’s Thanksgiving, once again, here in the U.S. and I just wanted to take a moment to say “thanks” …
: Mac Notebooks vs. Laptops Benjamin Mayo, back in October: Over the last week, 9to5Mac has noticed that Apple Support articles …
: Quick Tip: Disable the New Shared Reminders Notifications (Especially for Wish Lists) The gift-giving season is upon us. And if your family is like mine, that means everyone is …
: I Saved My Tweets, and Maybe You Should, Too With over 50% of Twitter’s workforce gone from the company, I — like many others — worried that it …
: 7 (Nice) Things This Week [#69] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: ‘The Last Chronological Feed Gets No Love’ Matt Birchler, writing at Birchtree: And yet this page seems to get no love. I see articles about …
: ‘Write the Boring Workflow You Want to Read’ Josh Ginter, on his Newsprint blog about finding his writing niche: That experimentation could work …
: Email Address Whoopsie So, hey, I’m kind of a newbie when it comes to behind-the-scenes internet stuff. Apparently, when …
: Papa Today would have been my Grandpa’s 87th birthday. Or Papa, as we called him. But he passed away a …
: Reading in the Past My media life has taken an odd turn lately. You see, I’m behind by about three weeks on the podcasts …
: 7 Things (Which Are Some Twitter Users I Need to Thank) This Week [#68] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. Since …
: Human-Powered I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the human body, and how it can be pushed to do truly …
: Apple TV+’s ‘Servant’ Will Conclude With Fourth Season Apple TV+ PR: Apple TV+ today unveiled a chilling sneak peek into the epic conclusion of its …
: 7 Things Last Week [#67] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays.* Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things This Week [#66] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: A Web-based Writing Environment for Blot I just discovered wall.blot.im, which appears to be a web app for writing out blog posts for Blot …
: ‘Apple Introduces New Test Design for iCloud Website’ Juli Clover, reporting at MacRumors: Apple today introduced an overhauled design for the iCloud.com …
: Tab Groups Are Great! Tab Groups were introduced last year to Safari1 in the iOS/iPadOS 15 and macOS 12 releases, but it’s …
: ‘Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls’ David Pierce, writing about Google’s latest messaging platform fiasco for The Verge earlier this …
: ’Best Buy’s ’Upgrade+’ Program Lets Customers Get a New Mac Laptop Every Three Years With Monthly Financing’ Eric Slivka, writing for MacRumors: As an example, Best Buy cites a base M1 MacBook Air priced at …
: ‘It’s not an experience’ Jason Fried: They ask me to rate my “experience”. Thing is, I didn’t have an experience. The …
: 7 Things This Week [#65] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things (I’m Exploring in Earnest) This Week [#64] 👀 A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Welcome to the Refreshed HeyDingus.net Hey there! Since you’re reading these words, that means that, as was foretold, I’ve launched version …
: HeyDingus for Relay FM for St. Jude Relay FM for St. Jude 2022 ⌘ It’s been a while, but I believe strongly in this cause and wanted to …
: 7 Things (That Are Most Intriguing From WWDC22) This Week [#63] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Last Minute Thoughts the Night Before WWDC22 Rather than a drawn-out thesis for every hope and rumor out there, I’ll give you a few broad …
: 7 Things This Week [#62] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things This Week [#61] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Mobile Games) This Week [#60] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things This Week [#59] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things (Which Are Useful Knots) This Week [#58] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things This Week [#57] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things This Week [#56] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays.1 Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Teens Choose Apple Cash Over Venmo Piper Sandler, Inc.: For payment apps, Apple Pay ranked first, partly due to 87% of teens in the …
: 7 Things This Week [#55] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ I …
: New Shirt Drop: Six Colors Edition I whipped out Pixelmator Pro over the last couple of weeks to make some new shirts that I really …
: 7 Things This Week [#54] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Studio Display as Apple TV? (Image: Apple) ⌘ Learning that the Studio Display not only has an A13 processor but also runs the …
: 7 Things This Week [#53] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Go …
: Apple Tries New Purchasing Flexibility with the iPhone SE Mark Gurman, writing for Bloomberg about an intriguing new development: Starting with the iPhone SE …
: Now, March 2022 🆕 What’s New? To be honest, I’m having a bit of trouble writing this Now update. It’s not that I …
: ‘I Can’t Tell the Difference’ My admiration for David Heinemeier Hansson has waned over the years, but I like to make sure my …
: ‘iOS 15.4 and watchOS 8.5 Allow You to Restore an Apple Watch Using an iPhone’ Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors: The support document states that if an Apple Watch running …
: 7 Things This Week [#52] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Details Matter with AirTags (Image: Apple) ⌘ Apple’s trouble with AirTags reached a new level a few weeks ago, culminating in …
: Apple’s Veteran and Military Discount A good PSA from Jim Eagar on his new Original Mac Guy blog: Apple offers a 10% discount to current …
: Some Thoughts on Today’s ‘Peek Performance’ Apple Event (Image: Basic Apple Guy) ⌘ This time, this title said it all: Peek = Studio Display, Performance …
: Thoughts On An Ideal Mac Lineup (Image: Apple) ⌘ With Apple’s ‘Peek Performance’ event happening tomorrow and rumors swirling …
: Essentially Nothing Jon Porter, writing for The Verge: Pei has always been clear that he expects Nothing to expand into …
: 7 Things (Which Are the Best Restaurants I’ve Found in Lake Placid So Far) This Week [#51] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Cloudflare Reveals Tidbits About iCloud Private Relay Although ostensibly written for network operators, this post written by Rustam Lalkaka at Cloudflare …
: 28 (Image: Ylanite Koppens) ⌘ Today, I turned 28 years old. Besides the number, that’s the same …
: Genius or Not, We Learn Best Together Matthew Bischoff recently shared some lessons they’d learned from a brief stint working at an Apple …
: 7 Things This Week [#50] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Facebook’s Bad Quarter Apparently, Facebook lost over 1 million users in North America last quarter: That drop led to an …
: Siracusa’s Spec for Streaming John Siracusa, the TV connoisseur, in his annual (by average) blog post: People don’t feel like …
: Shortcuts Tips: Drag Items Onto a Docked Shortcut Since macOS lacks a system-wide share sheet as powerful as the one in iOS and iPadOS, Shortcuts …
: Some Hopes (And Tips) for Shared Albums From a Power User (Image: charan sai) ⌘ My family grew up with scrapbooks playing a significant role in our lives. A …
: 7 Things (Which Are Mostly Videos) This Week [#49] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. It’s a …
: Review: Logitech Keys-To-Go The Logitech Keys-To-Go ⌘ TL;DR: Don’t buy this keyboard. It’s a squishy, inaccurate mess. I …
: 7 Things (Which Are Apple Software Wishes) This Week [#48] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. This …
: ‘Apple’s Retail Staff are Second-Class Employees’ I was scrolling through Twitter last night when I came across a tweet with two names that I hadn’t …
: Shortcuts Tips: Share Feedback for Relay FM Family Podcasts ⌘ You’re listening to your favorite podcast when inspiration strikes: the perfect question. It’s …
: Shortcuts Tips: Share Feedback for Relay FM Family Podcasts [⌘](https://jarrod-test.micro.blog/uploads/2025/a249739092.jpg) You’re listening to your …
: Microsoft’s New Fairness Principles Aren’t Totally Fair Microsoft is getting out ahead of regulations coming down on app stores, something that Apple should …
: Audio Messaging Is Great and — Who Knew? — You Can Send Them From Siri Laura Rosenberg recently put out a great piece at 9to5Mac on the merits of sending audio messages …
: Spotify Is Becoming Unwrapped by Joe Rogan Ashley Carman, reporting for The Verge: On the company’s February 3rd earnings call, Ek was clear …
: Playing Chicken with a Continent Meta threatens to pull Instagram and Facebook in Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please …
: ‘What Is A Real Photograph?’ Noah Kalina on the fine line between digital and physical art: On one side of the spectrum, you …
: ‘Preserve and Play the Original Wordle for Decades with WordleForever’ Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories: So in the spirit of game preservation (a topic I care …
: ‘Play: A Fantastic Utility for Saving and Organizing YouTube Videos for Later’ John Voorhees, reviewing a wonderful new app on MacStories: Play is an excellent example of how …
: The Curious Timing of Tap to Pay on iPhone Apple Newsroom: Once Tap to Pay on iPhone becomes available, merchants will be able to unlock …
: Twitter Might Expand From Micro-Blog to Macro-Blog After what felt like an eternity with Twitter sitting on its laurels, they’re now churning out new …
: CMU Centralis Email Disaster Turns Into Good News I was driving along one recent night with podcasts going, per usual, when a familiar name came out …
: 7 Things This Week [#47] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Predicting the OS Name for Apple’s Rumored Headset (Image: Jessica Lewis Creative) ⌘ It sounds like 2022 will finally be the year that we’ll get a …
: Now, February 2022 🆕 What’s New? Wow, it’s been a big month. As planned, my wife and I moved from Ohio, our home of …
: 30 Days of Silence (Image: Garrett Morrow) ⌘ For the last 30 days, at 12:00 am I dutifully put my headphones in and …
: ‘An Assortment of Links and Observations Regarding the Neil Young –Joe Rogan Spotify Saga’ John Gruber at Daring Fireball: It’s not just a one-time principled stand, either. Neil Young is an …
: PS5 vs. iPad Shipments ![A PlayStation controller, upside …
: PS5 vs. iPad Shipments (Image: Garrett Morrow) ⌘ It’s not news that Sony is still struggling to get enough PS5s out the …
: Shortcuts Tips: Contextualize Your Tasks with Shortcuts Run from URLs Last week, John Voorhees at MacStories wrote up a terrific piece for their ‘Starter Pack’ series in …
: The macOS Photo Library Picker Doesn’t Have to Be So Slow I thought it was just something that we lived with as Mac users. If you wanted to use the built-in …
: Shortcut Redux: An Even More Accessible WordleBot Wordle continues to be part of the zeitgeist weeks after it exploded in popularity — in large part …
: 7 Things This Week [#46] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: DHH on Apple Talking Out of Both Sides of Their Mouth About Security David Heinemeier Hansson: The Mac is such an inconvenient platform for Apple. It prevents the …
: Shortcuts Tips: Copy as Embedded YouTube Video As a follow-on to my ‘Copy as Embedded Tweet’ shortcut that I made last year, I set out to further …
: Apple Makes the Pilot Episode for Its Latest Series ‘The Afterparty’ Available to Watch on YouTube In what I believe to be a first for Apple TV+, the full pilot episode of a premiering series has …
: Google abandons FLoC, introduces Topics API to replace tracking cookies Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge: Your browser will store these topics for three weeks before …
: ‘Google abandons FLoC, introduces Topics API to replace tracking cookies’ Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge: Your browser will store these topics for three weeks before …
: Shortcuts Tips: Search for Stock Photo (Image: cottonbro) ⌘ If you’re a long-time reader, you’ll know that HeyDingus doesn’t have a lot …
: Pixels Barely Reach Toddling Age Before Google Gives Up On Them I’m baffled by Google’s lack of long-term support for their first-party Pixel phones. I thought that …
: ‘Wordle May Be Fixed, but the App Store Is Still a Total Mess’ Jason Cross, writing for Macworld: It’s [sic] would be a trivially small amount of money for Apple …
: Search Better with Keyword Search and Shortcuts A few months back, I created a shortcut that lets me quickly and easily take any Amazon product URL …
: The Case for Using Ultra Wideband for Lossless and More (Image: Jess Bailey Designs) ⌘ Casey, John, and Marco discussed on Accidental Tech Podcast how …
: My Watch Now Scores Me on My Readiness for the Day David Smith just released a really cool update for Sleep++: There are a number of dedicated fitness …
: 7 Things This Week [#45] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Quick Tip: Take a Precisely-Timed Screenshot on iPadOS Sometimes getting the perfect thing on-screen to capture can be tricky. Trying to hit the hardware …
: Just Remove the Computing Bits Parker Ortolani, at 9to5Mac, commenting on how Apple could and should take the obvious route for …
: The Revolving Door for Apple’s Top PR Job Gets Another Go Round Chance Miller reports at 9to5Mac on the latest Apple exec switch up. If the shoe doesn’t fit… This …
: 7 Things (I Learned While Moving) This Week [#44] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things (Which Are Some Cool Shit From CES) This Week [#43] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. The …
: Customizable Notifications on Mac Tyler Hall wrote about finding a way to customize notifications the Mac, Growl-style, with his new …
: 7 Things This Week [#42] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. It’s …
: Looking Back at the First Year of HeyDingus Along with celebrating a brand-new year, today I’m also excited to mark off the first 365 days of …
: Looking Back at the First Year of HeyDingus Along with celebrating a brand-new year, today I’m also excited to mark off the first 365 days of …
: The HeyDingus 2021 Favorites While I like to think of myself as a considerate person, I don’t usually find that reflection comes …
: A Few Desk Setup Additions: Winter 2021 Today I have a fun update featuring a few items that have recently found their way into my desk …
: 7 Things This Week [#41] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. This …
: HomeKit + Ultra-Wideband Is Amazing José Adorno, writing at 9to5Mac, highlighted an incredible proof of concept to control smart home …
: HomeKit + Ultra-Wideband Is Amazing José Adorno, writing at 9to5Mac, highlighted an incredible proof of concept to control smart home …
: Flighty Pro Goes Free for the Most Hectic Travel Day of the Year Developer Ryan Jones is getting into the holiday spirit by making the Pro features of his popular …
: ‘The COVID Carousel’ Omicron is tearing through my neck of the woods, yet I have no optimism left that it’ll change the …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Christmas Albums) This Week [#40] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. Not …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Christmas Albums) This Week [#40] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. Not …
: Bird Watching A few weeks ago, we finally got around to putting up a bird feeder that I got my wife for our …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Most Used Emojis) This Week [#39] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ 👍 …
: Leaving Facebook A few months back, I deactivated my Facebook account. Clicking that button was a huge relief. After …
: 7 Things This Week [#38] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Now, December 2021 🆕 What’s New? Hey there, I’m back at it with a Now update after taking November off. I didn’t intend …
: 7 Things This Week [#37] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: ‘Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators’ Megan McArdle, writing at The Atlantic: Our educational system is almost designed to foster a fixed …
: Writing My First Script Editor’s Note: I was looking through my ever-piling list of potential posts and found this one that …
: Shortcuts Tips: Clean Up Apple News Links (De-news) A couple of months back, fed up with the proprietary https://apple.news links that get shared from …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Unanswered Questions) This Week [#36] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Shortcuts Tips: Amazon Affiliate Linker If you’ve ever tried to copy an Amazon item link, you know that more times than not, it’s …
: Shortcuts Tips: Copy as Embedded Tweet File this under ‘scratching your own itch’. I like to use embedded tweets here on my blog. I like …
: 7 Things This Week [#35] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: A Week with Beats Fit Pro Following my habit of purchasing at least one pair of headphones per year, I’ve spent a few days …
: 7 Things (Which Are My All-Time Most Played Songs) This Week [#34] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. I …
: 7 Things This Week [#33] 🎃👻💀 Happy Halloween! 💀👻🎃 A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes …
: Shortcuts Tips: Getting Wisdom from a Website Here’s a quick shortcut that I put together tonight after being inspired by @RyanMorey on Twitter. …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite iOS and iPadOS 15 Tips) This Week [#32] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. iOS …
: Considering Apple Music’s New Voice Plan Mike Rockwell on his blog, Initial Charge: I buy just about all the music I listen to and store …
: Challenge! Exercise With the Ring Fit Adventure Welcome to the first installment of Challenge! This is a series in which I regularly push myself to …
: There’s Nothing “Simple” About Adding Face ID (Image: Apple) ⌘ You’ve seen the notch in the display of Apple’s amazing new MacBook Pro. …
: 7 Things This Week [#31] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: Flipboard on Curated Curators Protocol’s David Pierce recently wrote a piece about Flipboard that got me thinking back to the …
: 7 Things (Which Are Some of My Favorite Silly Jokes) This Week [#30] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. …
: Now, October 2021 What’s New? As I sit here asking myself, “What’s new this month?” I struggle to come up with …
: 7 Things (Which Are Pics From My ADK Trip) This Week [#29] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. This …
: 7 Things This Week [#28] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. It’s …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Menu Bar Apps) This Week [#27] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. One of …
: Now, September 2021 What’s New? This past month I’ve been throwing myself into my new job, trying to soak in as much as …
: 7 Things This Week [#26] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Most Recently Liked YouTube Videos) This Week [#25] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ …
: 7 Things This Week [#24] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. (1) …
: 7 Things This Week [#23] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. Two …
: Trying to Understand Body Dysmorphia Rachel Anderson, writing on their blog Sanspoint: As 2019 continued, I wound up splitting myself in …
: 7 Things This Week [#22] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. (1) …
: Keep Your Eye on Maisie Peters, Apple Music’s Newest Up Next Artist (Image: Apple Music) ⌘ I’ve been listening to Maisie Peters for a while now, and I wholeheartedly …
: Iceland’s Reduced Work Hours Meant More Happiness And The Gears Kept Turning Andrea Hsu, writing at NPR: Now, research out of Iceland has found that working fewer hours for the …
: Now, August 2021 What’s New Over the past few weeks, I’ve been settling into my new job, which does, unfortunately, …
: Expanding the Ted Lasso Universe From the very first episode, Ted Lasso has included a nod toward Twitter. At the time, Ted professed …
: Expanding the Ted Lasso Universe From the very first episode, Ted Lasso has included a nod toward Twitter. At the time, Ted professed …
: 7 Things This Week [#21] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. In …
: 7 Things This Week [#20] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. …
: Feature Request: Unleash Memoji (Image: Apple) ⌘ It seems to me that when it comes to Apple’s Memoji, you fall into one of two …
: Baffling App Ages I’ve got to get something off my chest. It’s an inconsequential annoyance, but it bothers me …
: Dreaming of an Apple Camera I’ll say this upfront: I’m not a photographer by nature. Sure, I use my iPhone’s camera almost every …
: Spotify Introduces a ‘What’s New’ Feed for Followed Artists Here’s another instance of Spotify building something I’ve longed for in Apple Music: Easily access …
: Keeping Shortcut Links Up-to-Date With RoutineHub I’m the kind of person who likes to tinker, to fiddle, to update, to improve. So I was thrilled to …
: 7 Things This Week [#19] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. I’m …
: How I Make Drafts Work for Me ⌘ In my Home Screen write-up for MacSparky, I mentioned how I use Drafts to get to-dos into …
: My First Shirt Sale! Last week, I received a report from Cotton Bureau telling me I made my first sale! Well, the first …
: Ted Lasso Wallpapers and Shirts The Ted Lasso Collection. ⌘ That’s right, I’m just as excited as the rest of the world for the …
: Now, July 2021 What’s New This past six weeks or so, I’ve had my head down working on a few new projects. Writing …
: Now, July 2021 What’s New This past six weeks or so, I’ve had my head down working on a few new projects. Writing …
: Triangles Wallpaper Hot on the tail of my International wallpapers, I’m excited to also release the Triangles wallpaper. …
: International Wallpapers The International Collection. ⌘ Upon seeing the bold designs going up in Apple Stores around the …
: 7 Things This Week [#18] A weekly list of things I found interesting, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. Did …
: Kindle Vella Amazon is trying something weird and new (but also old) in the reading space. It’s called Kindle …
: Desk Setup, Summer 2021 My happy place for writing, coding and learning. Device wallpapers are the built-in default one for …
: Elsewhere: Home Screen Feature on MacSparky For the very first time, I was asked to contribute to someone else’s site, and I’m thrilled it was …
: Unused Device Storage Adds Up Quickly BasicAppleGuy on paying for too much device storage, despite the best of intentions: The chief …
: Window Snapping on macOS Windows 11 has new window snapping options that have drawn a lot of interest, yours truly included. …
: Paperlike iPad Screen Protector Review ⌘ For years, I’ve heard about the Paperlike screen protector. Despite being interested, I never …
: XKCD’s Disclaimer I’ve been enjoying XKCD comics for years and only just noticed the fine print on the bottom of each …
: 7 Things This Week [#17] A weekly list of things I found interesting, delivered on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. For …
: Feature Request: Locking Any App A few days ago, I got a text from my sister seeking some iPad help. She wanted to know if there was …
: The Pieces Are All Nearly in Place for Arbitrary Windowing on iPad I’ve been noticing hints over the past few versions of iPadOS that point toward a Mac-like windowing …
: Shortcuts Tips: Saving Podcast Show Notes for Later ⌘ I listen to a lot of podcasts. Over the past few years, they’ve become my favorite medium for …
: Jason Fried on Renting to Test Drive Jason Fried, writing on his HEY World blog, wonders why car brands don’t take an active role in the …
: First Impressions After 72 Hours With the iPadOS 15 Public Beta With the release of the public beta, I put my iPad Pro (the one I’m typing on right now) on iPadOS …
: 7 Things This Week [#16] A weekly list of things I found interesting, delivered on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. …
: Episode Numbers Come to Fitness+ When I opened Fitness+ on an Apple TV running the tvOS 15 beta, I noticed that Apple has leaned into …
: Apple News+ Has a Distracting Amount of Ads Recently, on the BasicAppleGuy blog (Internet Archive) about Apple News+ (which, despite the sound …
: Big Mail Review TL;DR: While I commend Big Mail for going big (heh) on rethinking email, a few missing basic …
: The Apple Hardware Calendar He’s gone and done it! After the idea floated by earlier this year on his Connected podcast, Stephen …
: Considering Alternative App Payment Methods John Gruber, writing at Daring Fireball about Apple’s recent white paper: But that last point, that …
: How to add a missing Apple Watch Stand goal hour with Shortcuts TL;DR: Your Apple Watch’s Stand ring is missing an hour. Maybe you really did stand up for at least …
: 7 Things This Week [#15] If you’ve ever used a CARROT app, you’ll appreciate this video, Meatbag. 🤣 Now is the time to start …
: Thoughts on the Windows 11 Event Microsoft introduced the next version of Windows this week, as I’m sure the whole internet has heard …
: FBI Scores a Major Sting Using Phones They Sold to Crime Networks Jon Brodkin, writing at Ars Technica: Europol noted that there is “a huge demand for encrypted …
: Building a Better Blogging Workflow for Squarespace It took a few tries, but I’ve figured out how to use my favorite tools together to smoothly get from …
: Spatial Audio as an Expanded Toolbox for Musical Artists I’ve been trying more music with Spatial Audio and staying tuned in to how others are receiving it …
: Spatial Audio as an Expanded Toolbox for Musical Artists I’ve been trying more music with Spatial Audio and staying tuned in to how others are receiving it …
: How Live Text Will Reduce Cognitive Load and Make Tech More Accessible I always look forward to Steven Aquino’s analysis of new OS features and how they benefit the …
: Paradox of Choice We live in a world of endless entertainment. As Bo Burnham puts it, the internet has “anything and …
: Imagining an Apple Smart Display for the Kitchen Parker Ortolani, writing at 9to5Mac, imagined an Apple-designed smart display: When a smart display …
: Apple Likely Downplayed the M1-Specific macOS Features on Purpose Oliver Haslam, writing at iMore: As we found out yesterday, not all macOS Monterey features will …
: 7 (Fun) Things This Week [#14] I discovered this post from Arun Venkatsen about Apple’s 1987 Identity Guidelines. Arun has a …
: iCloud Private Relay Will Bring Dead-Simple Website Security to the Masses Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: iCloud Private Relay helps combat both of these loopholes through …
: Spatial Audio Is Coming to Apple TV After All Igor Bonifacic at Engadget: When you sit down to watch a movie or TV show, the included head …
: WWDC 2021: Democratizing App Development Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash I can’t stop thinking about how Apple has further democratized …
: ‘Future of Media — a quick reality check’ Om Malik somehow captures my inner musing in his blog post. He successfully articulates why I …
: Signs Indicate Global Keyboard Shortcuts Are Coming to iPad Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Then there’s the Globe key. Hold it down in any app in iPadOS …
: Announcing the HeyDingus Shirt Hey, would you look at that — I designed a shirt! A shirt that you can actually buy and wear. It’s …
: Shortcuts Tips: Uploading Images to a CDN for Blogging Last night I went on a journey into Shortcuts and API requests while trying to solve a problem I …
: Apple Uses Additional Secrecy Protections to Hide Software Features From Internal Development Teams Filipe Espósito writing at 9to5Mac: Within the internal files of iOS 15 beta 1, each major feature …
: Creators Are Joining the Fight Against In-App Payment Policies Creators say Apple’s cut of in-app purchases prevents them from growing their business. (Image: …
: Tempted by Spotify I’m getting green with envy. ⌘ A few weeks back, José Adorno at 9to5Mac reported on Spotify’s new …
: WWDC 2021: The Arrival of appleOS During the whirlwind of WWDC last week, from the keynote to the session videos to the gems found …
: WWDC 2021: Reviewing 20+ Years of Conferences Parker Ortolani at 9to5Mac outdid himself in compiling stand-out moments from nearly 25 years of …
: 7 Things This Week [#13] The fine folks at Panic (historically a software company) have been working on their first hardware …
: Now, June 2021 Living in a hot and humid Brunswick, Ohio (for now). Seriously, the heat has been out of control for …
: ‘Thicker. Chunkier. Perfect.’ Basic Apple Guy with a comprehensive look at what makes the new Siri Remote so great: Just how much …
: After Two Years, Please Bring Back a Reimagined Thunderbolt Display From Filipe Espósito at 9to5Mac: While I don’t expect Apple will make the Pro Display XDR more …
: My “Aha!” Moment with Spatial Audio I’ll be honest, when Apple flipped the switch to turn on Spatial Audio in Apple Music, I didn’t …
: iMac Pro Discontinued, but Not Dead? After some minor sleuthing, I think the name “iMac Pro” will be reintroduced and fully replace the …
: Assessing the Remote Work Controversy at Apple John Gruber’s take on the internal letter regarding Apple’s new remote work policy has sparked a lot …
: WWDC 2021: Grading My Wish List A few days ago I posted my wishes for today’s keynote announcements. Now it’s time to compare what …
: WWDC 2021: Some Initial Thoughts on a Jam-Packed First Day If I had to sum up the announcements that Apple made today about the next major versions of their …
: The Winds of Change Becky Hansmeyer with a keen take on good leadership in response to some of the recent criticism …
: 7 Things This Week [#12] After a hiatus, 7 Things is back! Marques Brownlee, as usual, does a great job explaining the …
: WWDC 2021 Wish Lists With Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference right around the corner, I thought I’d round up a bunch …
: In Praise of the Smart Keyboard As I recently wrote about, I’m writing right now on a Magic Keyboard attached to a 2020 iPad Pro. …
: Choosing the Forgotten iPad Pro I said goodbye this week to two of my favorite Apple purchases ever: the MacBook (2016) and iPad Pro …
: ‘What Does “Air” Mean?’ BasicAppleGuy put together a fun look back at how the “Air” brand has evolved at Apple over time: …
: Apple TV 4K (2021) Review The new Apple TV 4K came out last week, and they did rejoice. Well, I rejoiced because it meant that …
: And Now, Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming It’s been quiet here at HeyDingus for the past couple of months. I had some big projects at my day …
: Shuffling HEY World I continue to have a hook in my brain about HEY World. Even though I’m not abandoning HeyDingus, I …
: ‘Apple discontinues original HomePod, will focus on mini’ I’m a little late in commenting on this news, reported first by Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch: …
: ‘Adam Savage on Lists, More Lists, and the Power of Checkboxes’ Adam Savage, of MythBusters fame, coming in clutch with a detailed view into how he manages projects …
: 7 Things Last Week [#11] Quotes That Move Me “‘We all have our own tides inside. They go in. Out.’ He shrugs. ‘Not really …
: 7 Things This Week [#10] Wow. I was making footnotes1 way harder by trying to match up numbers at the bottom of the document. …
: ‘Nodding heads, not turning heads’ Some insight from Jason Fried on his HEY World blog: Whenever I write something with the intention …
: ‘My watchOS 7.3 adventure’ Dr. Drang, writing about his bananas software update experience: A few days ago, I updated my …
: Tackling Barriers with Top3 Tasks For the last few weeks, I’ve felt bogged down by my ever-growing task list. Each day I add more …
: Apple TV+ Previews New ‘Calls’ Series Here’s how Apple describes its most abstract addition to the slate yet: Calls is a groundbreaking …
: 7 Things (That Are My “Don’t Miss” Youtube Channels) This Week [#9] MrBeast. I found MrBeast a few years ago and was really put off by his video style, which I found …
: Thinking about HEY World Today the folks at HEY Email launched HEY World, a dead-simple blogging solution. The long and short …
: 7 Things (From My Past Seven Birthdays) This Week [#8] At 21, I had a Harry Potter-themed birthday party with fun alcoholic drinks. [Photo] At 22, I made a …
: 27 Today, I turn 27 years old. It’s not a particularly significant number. It’s one before my golden …
: 7 Things (Which Are My Most Played Songs) This Week [#7] “Don’t Let Me Down (feat. Daya)” by The Chainsmokers [Apple Music] “Lonely (Acoustic)” by Justin …
: 7 Things (That Make Me Smile) This Week [#6] An Instagram account dedicated to cute Golden Retrievers. [I Love Golden Retrievers] A Twitter …
: Now, February 2021 Living in a snowy and chilly Brunswick, OH with my wife and our three pets. Working for the Boy …
: 7 Things (I Enjoyed) This Week [#5] Mark Rober of YouTube is back with another over-the-top contraption. The NFL player, Matt Prater, …
: My Apple Report Card for 2020 Every January, I look forward to Jason Snell’s roundup of commentary and grades from the Apple …
: It’s the Hook That Brings You Back The episode of Punch Up the Jam on “Hook” by Blues Traveller was in my podcast queue for far too …
: 7 Things (Which Are Apps) This Week [#4] AirBuddy 2 for Mac recreates the quick, easy, and beautiful card-based interactions like those on …
: The Apple Gift Card’s Secret The giving season has recently passed, and perhaps you also received an Apple Gift Card or two. …
: 7 Things (I Found Fascinating) This Week [#3] I hadn’t realized that the Vice President is sworn in first during the inauguration. Make sense so …
: 7 Things (I Found) This Week [#2] Impeachment.fyi has been a succinct way to keep up with the impeachment progress this week. And full …
: Upcoming Album vs. Singles I’ll say this upfront: I’m particular about my music collection. Back in high school, I would rip …
: Apple CEO Tim Cook joins ‘CBS This Morning’ ahead of ‘big announcement’ coming Wednesday Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Notably, CBS This Morning host Gayle King also teased that more …
: 20 Macs for 2020 Jason Snell, who recently finished the incredible 20 Macs for 2020 project on *Six Colors*: Now, …
: ‘20 Macs for 2020’ Jason Snell, who recently finished the incredible 20 Macs for 2020 project on Six Colors: Now, …
: 7 Things (I Learned About) This Week [#1] People have timed out how to watch movies so that their climax happens exactly at midnight. I bet …
: Pretty Great, Pretty Loud, Pretty Expensive, Pretty Heavy, and Pretty I’ve spent some time with the AirPods Max after a long wait, and I could wax rhapsodic about how …
: Best of 2020: TV Shows With everyone and their brother starting a streaming service in the past few years, it has never …
: The Two-Tone iPhone and Apple’s Services Recap I was struck today by the hero image of Apple’s press release about the success of their services in …
: Now, January 2021 Living in Brunswick, OH with my wife and our three pets. Working at Lake Erie Council, Boy Scouts of …
: Wisdom From Merlin On the most recent episode of Do By Friday, Merlin Mann shared bits of wisdom he’s picked up over …
: On Headphones and Long-Term Waiting When Apple announced the AirPods Max, my first thought was, “It’s about damn time!” I had been …
: A Friend Made Something Cool During COVID My friend Jamie made the most of her extra time found during COVID quarantine and became a published …
: My 2020 Upgradies On the annual awards show of Upgrade (episode #332): It’s the 7th annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason …
: Thoughts on the Rumored Apple Car Every few years, we hear about the vehicle that Apple is supposedly working on. It sounds like …
: AirPods Max, Spatial Audio, and the U1 Chip As I eagerly await my AirPods Max1, I find myself wondering why Apple didn’t include the U1 chip …
: Hey There! Hello. Welcome to my little corner of the internet. I’m Jarrod. This is the place where I can share …