📷 #mbApr Day 18
Night mode mountain was a real mood.
My advice is to internalize the shortcut to hard-lock an iPhone, which temporarily disables Face/Touch ID and requires the passcode to unlock: squeeze the side button and either of the volume buttons for a second or so. I wrote an entire article about this two years ago. Don’t just learn this shortcut, internalize it, so that you don’t have to think about it under duress. Just squeeze the side buttons until you feel the phone vibrate. […] Tell everyone you know how to [do it].
🔗 Getting The Shot // Andy Kirkpatrick // andy-kirkpatrick.com
CATCH PEOPLE OFF GUARD
I hate the shots in mags where the climber knows they are being shot. What you see isn’t the real climber, it’s what the climber wants you to see. […] Give me a break. A good example are the images from Steve Houses ‘s ascent of Nanga Parbat. Basically you need to shoot people when they are at their most pissed off, scared or vulnerable. So no saying cheese.
Two residents of this corner of the web were linked to or featured by large publications today. Pretty pretty neat! 🙌 to @robb@social.lol and @stephenrobles@mastodon.social!
Random thought: I wonder if true cobblers resent the modern connotation of “cobbled together” more or less meaning “to haphazardly assemble”. I would hope my cobbler isn’t cobbling together my shoes!
First Baker climbs of the year. Love this crag, and loved introducing Brendan to it. 📷
🆕📝 PenPal with Ratika: Sleep, Routines, and Short Stories
If Ratika's emails are this good, just imagine what her books are like!
📷 #mbApr Day 17
The clouds flaunted their transcendence without a care in the world.
I wasn’t happy with how buttons on my site weren’t acting like buttons (you had to click the button’s text for it to work as a hyperlink). I learned I should style an <a> tag as a button to get that effect, not using the <button> element. But that was its own rabbit hole…
This helped fix things:
Apple is renewing For All Mankind and making a spinoff series, Star City:
A robust expansion of the “For All Mankind” universe, “Star City” is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.
Oh hell yeah!
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First, the report claims that iOS 18 will allow iPhone users to record voice memos directly within the Notes app, and these recordings could then be embedded in notes. Audio recordings can already be copy and pasted from the Voice Memos app into the Notes app for playback, but this step would no longer be necessary starting with iOS 18.
Speaking of voice messages in more places, voice memos in Notes makes a lot of sense. I know very few people who go into the Voice Memos app, but tons who use Apple Notes.
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Stoked for this show to return; it’s great! And do I spy a one Dani Rojas? 👀
I’d be down for Apple bringing Threads-style voice messages to iMessage. I love the transcription (in case you’re in a noisy place) and the follow-along animation. I’d use voice messages way more often.
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Tomorrow’s AI PCs may not only have a Copilot key on their keyboards — Logitech is introducing its own way to summon ChatGPT, too. It’s called the Logi AI Prompt Builder, and it’ll use a dedicated button on your mouse or keyboard.
The Logi AI Prompt Builder doesn’t just present you with a chatbot, it gives you preset “recipes” to help you prompt it, too.
Year of the A(i)ction Button? Action Buttons all the way down?
Since the first design of my site, I’ve stuck with blue text for my hyperlinks because that always seemed canonical with the web. Links = blue text, blue underline. But I’ve grown less certain with its readability with all that blue text interspersed. I’m considering a change. What do y’all think?
🆕📝 PenPal with Valerie: Climbing, Crafts, and Wrap-up
A big ol' thanks to @val for opening their inbox to me.
📷 #mbApr Day 16
If a flâneur is one who doesn’t do much but observe those around them, then these two are the best there ever was.
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Likewise, this beatboxing video is captivating. I recently saw a beatboxer perform live here in town and he was easily the most talented one I’ve ever seen. Just wild what some people can do with their voices and mouths. 😯
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I found this at lunch and it’s been stuck in my head ever since.
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There are references to an Apple Pencil“V4” in the iOS 17.5 code, and there are also mentions of a “squeeze” feature that could perhaps add support for completing actions with a squeeze on the new Apple Pencil.
Paired with the rumor about an Apple Pencil for Vision Pro, my strong suspicion is that you will squeeze to interact with virtual content there.
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Her: He’s probably thinking about other girls…
Me: Isn’t it wild how basically every iPod Nano and Shuffle design would actually make for a perfect AI device
Oh, the wave of nostalgia! Also, he’s not wrong.
🔗 Advice for How To Make Sure You Never Create Anything
- If you get an idea while writing a post, you should always finish this new idea before finishing the original one. This, of course, cascades to new ideas you get while working on the second one, etc.
- This also applies to expansions within an idea. You can always increase the scope of a project!
- If your website’s code requires work, this has to be completely rewritten before you can post anything new. It doesn’t make sense to add new content to an imperfect platform.
Kinda rude of @havn to call me out like this. 😂 Superb post
Alright, Verizon, you’ve redeemed yourself a bit. I canceled my service months ago, but haven’t been able to connect my watch to Spectrum. Spectrum told me it was because Verizon marked it as lost/stolen and I needed to talk to them to get it unlocked. It’s not lost nor stolen. 🙄 But Monica from Verizon’s support center followed up with me multiple times over the course of two days, across dropped calls, to make sure it was taken care of, and was just the best.
I just connected successfully! ⌚📶
When I start dreaming in code, I know I’ve been on the computer a little too much lately. 😬
🎵 The new Maggie Rogers album rules. Listened all the way through twice today! I get Sara Bareilles vibes from this one if you’re into that.