I’ve been pleasantly surprised that Apple held on to buy once pricing for pro apps like Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro for as long as they did. With their new Creator Studio bundle I’m glad they’ve made it about AI more than the app’s core features. We’ll see how long that lasts.
I want whatever the web tech is called where I can highlight some text in a text field and paste a URL and have it automagically create a link for the text I highlighted everywhere. Every text box all the time.
Except if I don’t want it to do that. Be smart about it internet.
Post walk+snow shovel+toque head Monday vibes to bring back my #selfie project after taking the weekend off.
Selfie a day for a year, day 147, Jan 12, 2026 edition
Stranger Things 5: The Finale, 2025 - ★★★★
I don’t know what everyone expected the finale to be like, but having rewatched season 1 before watching this season, it felt like it wrapped up in a way fitting to how it started. I loved it.
I don’t want to jinx anything, but could tonight be the night the Jets finally break their losing streak? 🙏🏻
If you ever need to convert WordPress to Markdown (for Eleventy, Astro, etc.), this repo on GitHub is all you need.
Alright now let’s do Messages in iCloud storage. How many messages and storage are you seeing on Settings app > Your Account at the top > iCloud > Messages?
One of the best parts about Brad Frost’s write up of how he put together a crazy idea for a talk at Beyond Tellerand is that at pretty much no point does he think “I should just ask Claude or ChatGPT”. Instead he reaches out to other creative humans for help in building out his vision.
If you host a podcast and spend the time your guest(s) are speaking planning how to steer the conversation back to your own experiences instead of actively listening, you are failing your audience. Ask follow up questions. Be curious. You’re the voice for the listeners, not yourself.
How much space does Apple Music use on your iPhone if you don’t have any songs downloaded? 33GB seems like a lot. (Settings.app > iPhone Storage > scroll down the list until you see Apple Music)
I’m on Apple One with the 2TB storage. I got this warning and when I tap it, it shows me that I could “upgrade” to 50GB more. Which is horribly wrong. That would downgrade me by 1,950GB and potentially cause me to lose a ton of photos and videos. What is going on #Apple?
Well 2026 already has 3x as many “please insert fart noises here” requests from clients at 2025 did, so that’s a good sign.
Testing out the microblog to bluesky cross post to see if it’s still including a microblog link even if I link to my newsletter, for example.
New post: AI Slop is Detectable
Frozen in a rink today. At least there’s hot chocolate.
Selfie a day for a year, day 142, Jan 7, 2026 edition.
Teens shouldn’t be seeing video of a woman getting shot by ICE agents while they check Instagram for stories from their friends.
This isn’t about what Instagram allows on their platform.
New blog post: The Blogging… It’s Working!
Ooh fun new “add chapters to audio files” app coming soon from Matt Birchler called ChapterPod.
I also love the look and feel of his website. Seems to be built on Ghost.