Social Media Social media recap for week ending 4.11.2025 Bluesky Put the kettle on the stove this morning and forgot to flip the little whistle thing back down over the spout. My water was ready but I didn't know it. Yes, even when I'm using 100-year-old steam-powered technology, I get bitten in the butt by
Music ♬ "You Be My Baby" (Ray Charles) I'm undergoing a kind of Ray Charles Early Catalogue Immersion Therapy at the moment. I dunno what the medical indications are for this treatment but I fully intend to keep faking the symptoms long after I feel cured. Long, long after. I blame my local public library. Rather
TED TED2025: And I Don't Think Very Highly Of His Shirt, Either TED2025 is taking place in Vancouver this week. It’s entitled (eyeroll emoji) “Humanity Reimagined” (sigh emoji) (Gen-X and thus too detached to use the actual emoji emoji) The public doesn’t have access to the presentation videos yet, but one of this year’s presentations already has me super-excited.
Apple A Commotion of Links (Apple): April 8, 2015 The big news this week was Trump's tariffs and I'm already sick of even thinking about it. Apple also won a major battle in the war against the UK's order to add a backdoor to iCloud encryption. Tariffs [Financial Times] Apple and other US
Material #495: "Lazy Holiday Cards" Material #495: Lazy Holiday Cards - Relay FMCan AI help make up for the fact that you forgot to set up the family Christmas card? Maybe someday.Relay FMRelay FM AI image-generation was very much on our minds this week. Flo talked about using Google's and Apple'
MacBreak MacBreak Weekly 952: "Everything Smells Like Fresh Paint" Everything Smells Like Fresh Paint | TWiT.TVBlackmagic debuts a new 3D camera to capture video for the Vision Pro, which gets Alex Lindsay very giddy. King Charles III visits Apple’s headquarters in the U.K. What doesTWiT.tv Blackmagic announced its long-anticipated URSA Cine Immersive camera, aka "the
Apple The Magic Mouse is Apple's best worst product Mark Gurman's latest subscribers-only newsletter says that Apple's developing an update to the Magic Mouse. I'm told that Apple's design team has been prototyping versions of the accessory in recent months, aiming to design something that better fits the modern era. Gurman
Google Google needs a Chief Humanity Officer We really need to talk about Google’s new promo video. It ties into the Olympics in a way that’s really quite horrifying. Can I just start by saying that Google has released some truly wonderful and heart-touching promos in the past? Like the “Dear Sophie” video. Remember that
Link Farewell to the Quick Brown Fox [readlink] God bless Jonathan Hoefler. He's an actual design pro and he came to a belated realization: none of the dummy text we tend to use when evaluating a font aren't very helpful.
Writing Readlink: "I Tried to Finish a Dead Man’s Novel" He agreed to try to finish Jim's novel, sort of as a mitzvah. No contracts, no deadlines, no expectations. Just a briefcase, in his closet, that's always there.
Linux Making room for Linux in 2024 I regard Linux the same way I regard healthy eating and regular exercise: I admire it, I acknowledge its importance, and I'm excited about embracing it just as soon as the fundamental concept evolves to become less of a hassle and a lot less work. Also: I'
Culture Needs More Dots "Beetle Bailey" reminded me anew that the march of progress is unstoppable and the impacts of evolving technology upon Society are myriad, deep, and impossible to predict. As any reader of Josh Fruhlinger's excellent "Comics Curmudgeon" blog can attest, comic strips that continue to
Yellowtext This Is Zero. Beginnings can be anticipated, I find, but they can't always be planned. The best ones just sort of Happen, as a perfect afternoon just Happens.
