Whoever came up with the feature that screens unknown callers on iPhones at Apple deserves a the same bonus that the person who came up with auto insert security codes from Messages / Mail. 👌🏾 🤩

The settings screen shows options for Live Voicemail, screening unknown callers with the selected choice Ask Reason for Calling, and call filtering for unknown callers turned off.A voicemail transcript shows someone named Manali thanking the caller for contacting Rogers and asking if they are speaking with Chris.

Gonna play a bit of #Fortnite on the ‘ole stream. If you saw me playing earlier with crap video, I apologize. It’s been fixed. (Maybe?) Twitch or YouTube

It’s disappointing how you can almost see in real time that as income + bank account balance goes up, empathy and curiosity goes down.

Congrats to my friend and (infrequent?) podcast co-host Nicolas on hitting the 10 year mark at AWS.

The audio stuck in my brain this week is “Thicky thicky dumb dumb”.

Welp. We made it to Friday everyone. May your coffee be hot and your inbox empty by noon.

Selfie a day for a year, day 354, Aug 7, 2026 edition.

A man with gray hair and glasses is holding a dark blue cup with white patterns close to the camera, with a framed picture of Ted Lasso visible in the background.

“I just want normal parents who don’t care about what their kids are doing! 😡” Happy Friday everyone!

Kid needed a ride home at 11. 😪 Kid is going to get a ride home! 😅 Kid no longer has a ride home, once again needs a ride home. 😪 🥱

On the plus side I get more time with the audiobook for Carl’s Doomsday Scenario.

I just had a full sensory memory of dropping a new CD into a CD player tray, watching the tray slide in, and hear it start spinning for a moment before the music hit.

New on my blog: Following a link. Join me on a little walk through the ‘ole world wide web.