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May 15, 2025: Well now I kind of want to play a game of hot / cold with Fazle just to see if they can find where I hid the box.
May 15, 2025: Currently using 3 different calendar apps just as Steve Jobs intended.
May 14, 2025: I told my daughter she can text me if she feels dumb when her friends disappear into Snapchat on their phones, and she can’t join in because we’re not …
May 14, 2025: Joining me on Thursday is the esteemed Andy Bell who’ll bring his British sensibilities and questions about live streaming from the Mac. I’m not sure …
May 14, 2025: Don’t watch the new Superman trailer if you’re planning to see the movie already. You know you’re going to go. You know it’ll be a big, epic fun …
May 14, 2025: When everyone else is vibe coding and breaking things while moving fast, be a Ultramarina and sweat the small details of your first Shopify theme, …
May 13, 2025: Finished reading: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman 📚
May 13, 2025: Me: I’m definitely never buying a skin for Fortnite. And especially not a vehicle skin. Also me: I can drive around in K.I.T.T.??
May 13, 2025: I agree with Justin’s post about YouTube’s eventual need to degrade the podcasting experience to extract value from it. Silos and walled gardens are …
May 12, 2025: All the parents sitting in our vehicles looking our little screens waiting for hockey to start has me thinking about getting a couch and chairs for …
May 12, 2025: The US National Parks having a fake beef with each other, all while posting the weirdest most feral content on TikTok is not how I saw the resistance …
May 12, 2025: TikTok has a new caption preset that tries to add emoji to your captions… sometimes it works great. Other times, it just lands in the gutter.
May 12, 2025: New blog post: Brick Your iPhone on Purpose
May 12, 2025: I caved and watched the Murderbot trailer and I’m genuinely excited for the show. I really enjoyed Martha Wells book series that it’s based on.
May 12, 2025: I don’t really care whether the MCU is back baby or not, but I genuinely really enjoyed Thunderbolts* in a way that I haven’t a lot of superhero …
May 11, 2025: Thunderbolts*, 2025 - ★★★★ Best MCU film in a while.
May 11, 2025: #GoJetsGo let’s get ahead in this series asap plz
May 10, 2025: These came with our biennial purchase of a umbrella for our deck (because #Saskatchewan) and I feel like I could use them for something else? Any …
May 9, 2025: Wow Fortnite’s already available on iOS in Canada. 😂
May 9, 2025: I can’t wait to be able to tell my kids to go play Fortnite on their iPhone so I can play #Fortnite on my tv again. 😝
May 8, 2025: Onward, 2020 - ★★★★ Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.
May 8, 2025: New blog post: Back to Basics with Apple Mail, Notes, and Reminders Apps
May 8, 2025: I’ve been debating getting a second HomePod mini for my office for a year or two (I move really slowly on $$ things), but now I know if I pick one up, …
May 7, 2025: “I wanna love you, I wanna make you mine…” You’ll finish the next line whether you want to or not if you’ve been watching NHL playoffs in Canada. 😂
May 7, 2025: I first created this reboot of my email newsletter back in February… of 2024. I’ve been rewriting it every few months as things change. 😆 Maybe I …
May 6, 2025: New blog post: The Necessary Conversation Podcast
May 6, 2025: New blog post: 12 Years of Ghost
May 5, 2025: I dig how simply and clearly Ray Ortega demonstrates the benefits of Elgato’s new Voice Focus feature works. I’m definitely tempted to upgrade my old …
May 5, 2025: Siri and Google are currently fighting over who gets to notify me the most about the various flights I have today… except I don’t have any flights …
May 4, 2025: I can’t believe the Jets pulled that off. #NHLJets
May 4, 2025: It’s such a Jets move to wait until 1.6 seconds left to tie game 7 and send it to overtime. #NHLJets
May 4, 2025: I still remember the chills I got when we walked around that corner and saw the entrance to Black Spire Outpost. I don’t know when we’ll feel …
May 3, 2025: Someone kept trying to join a group #Fortnite game last night who’s on my Epic Games friend list, but because of username confusion, I have no idea …
May 2, 2025: The Jets are going to make this night as painful as possible, aren’t they? 😠 #NHLJets
May 2, 2025: I will not suffer any Star Wars hate this month, especially inside #Fortnite. 😆
May 2, 2025: New word game added to my rotation: Bracket City (via Ginger in The ShopTalk Show Discord.
May 1, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch talking with Tim about…things - we might even try taking a few callers if the tech behaves.
May 1, 2025: 🔔 Tim and I are going to be chatting about something… podcast editing, websites, taxes, something? - Join us in an hour 1:45pm / 3:45pm EST on Twitch. …
May 1, 2025: Blue’s coach Jim Montgomery is an ass for claiming any knowledge of how and when Scheifele was hurt. No wonder the Blues are playing like a bunch of …
May 1, 2025: Running a business that earns mostly in USD but has mostly CAD expenses makes it hard to quickly calculate a profit and loss statement and tell if I’m …
Apr 30, 2025: I don’t know why it works one game and not the next, but I love when the Jets just focus on playing good hockey while the Blues just keep playing …
Apr 30, 2025: New blog post: The Tall Tales of a Short Rockstar trailer.
Apr 29, 2025: Question for the dog owners: I see dog beds for sale at Costco, etc. but our dog, Neville, almost always prefers to lay on the tile. Is a dog bed a …
Apr 28, 2025: You know a Mac app is doing something fishy when they don’t respect Command-H to hide the app properly. (coughs in Notion Calendar’s direction)
Apr 28, 2025: If you live to ~80 years old, you’ll get to vote nationally 20 times in Canada. Don’t miss your opportunity to participate in democracy. #ivoted …
Apr 27, 2025: My least favorite hockey games are the ones where the Jets forget how to play hockey. #NHLJets
Apr 26, 2025: That time of the month where I have to reintroduce my bank accounts to my money tracking app (Lunch Money) because Plaid works so well at forgetting …
Apr 25, 2025: Friday formula: Burger + beer + sunshine = 😋
Apr 25, 2025: Here’s the YouTube edit of my conversation with Tim yesterday about pricing services like podcast edits or web projects. It’s been fun to talk and …
Apr 25, 2025: I went for a walk and while taking this picture, Neville 🐶 almost broke my arm running after a bird.
Apr 24, 2025: wtf Jets? I know you’re missing a couple folks, but still. Yikes. #NHLPlayoffs
Apr 24, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch talking with Tim about pricing creative projects - we might even try taking a few callers if the tech behaves.
Apr 24, 2025: New blog post: They / Them Explained by Dan McClennan
Apr 24, 2025: 🔔 How do you price out work for clients? Tim and I are going to be talking about pricing in creative work like podcast editing or websites - 1:45pm / …
Apr 23, 2025: I don’t know if this Tampa realtor is doing well selling houses with her TikToks, but it’s certainly an interesting choice. 😆
Apr 23, 2025: I updated my blog post with the reply I got from Tim Sweeney. I doubt I’ll get anything from Tim Cook. 😆
Apr 23, 2025: New blog post: Apple Gaming is Still a Joke
Apr 23, 2025: I just tried installing Whiskey to be able to play Steam games on my Mac. I guess the 18(!) year old developer is stopping development on it for now.
Apr 22, 2025: New blog post: Edits from Instagram for iOS
Apr 22, 2025: I keep checking my Signal account just in case I’ve been added to any US government planning chats.
Apr 22, 2025: Anyone know #YouTube tactics well enough to know whether you should link the full episode a Short is clipped from, or just other Shorts in the …
Apr 21, 2025: #GoJetsGo 🏒
Apr 21, 2025: I’m driving 867km today, which should take around 8hrs give or take. What’s the best podcast episode you’ve listened to recently that I should check …
Apr 19, 2025: I haven’t slept past 7am for months. Today I slept past 10am. 👀 In these weird times, let people sleep if they’re able to. 🤲
Apr 17, 2025: I kind of miss the days when I could hand my bank login over to Mint and never have to resync bank accounts again. I’m so sick of seeing the Plaid …
Apr 17, 2025: “Neville - any idea who’s been digging holes in the backyard?”
Apr 17, 2025: I don’t know if there will ever be another Marc-Andre Fluery in the NHL. 😆
Apr 17, 2025: Wtf is this garbage? ❄️
Apr 16, 2025: There’s an iOS 18.4.1 and macOS Sequoi 15.4.1 update out now that addresses a security vulnerability and you’re advised to update as soon as you can.
Apr 16, 2025: According to my kids, it’s way cooler that I’m editing the YouTube Shorts clips for a client than any other thing I’ve done. 😆
Apr 16, 2025: You can just upload as much 4K video as you want to a youtube channel and it’s free. I still think that’s crazy.
Apr 16, 2025: I always forget about turning on folder sizes in Finder and reach for my copy of DaisyDisk instead. Nice reminder from Macrumors.
Apr 16, 2025: I dismantled the wood frame of our backyard rink this morning and I think my back is telling me that we won’t be doing a rink again next year. 😆😮💨
Apr 15, 2025: A Minecraft Movie, 2025 - ★★★ Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.
Apr 15, 2025: When I said I’d restart my email newsletter in 2024, I didn’t factor in the fact that I wouldn’t get around to doing it until 2025. So here we are. …
Apr 15, 2025: It’s been a while since I’ve thought about what and why I’m posting where and when online. I just opened up Descript and recorded some thoughts off …
Apr 14, 2025: New blog post: Coldplay’s Yellow Covered by Avie Sheck + His Mom
Apr 14, 2025: I’m a #Fortnite influencer. 😝
Apr 12, 2025: Been cleaning house and yard most of the day and just sat down, and now I don’t think I’ll be getting up again. 😴
Apr 11, 2025: Your regular reminder that whether you have one podcast or 20, Transistor is the best podcast host to use. Design + ease of use + support = happy …
Apr 11, 2025: I have no idea how the numbers look on the balance sheets, but I can’t imagine a person more dedicated to making the web cool and fun than Adam …
Apr 11, 2025: For anyone using Notion Calendar, how do you integrate date information from Notion? I’m looking for creative ways to use it that my brain can’t think …
Apr 11, 2025: It is pretty wild that a fully grown human adult can be rendered pretty much useless if one of their own eyelashes falls into their eyes.
Apr 11, 2025: The paths are mostly clear. ☀️ Now Neville gets to experience a pond melting for the first time.
Apr 10, 2025: Welp I guess I’m stuck here since Neville Dogbottom fell asleep on my foot.
Apr 10, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch talking with Tim about our unused domain names - we might even try taking a few callers if the tech behaves.
Apr 10, 2025: 🔔 Bring out your unused domain names. Tim and I are going to be talking about unused domain names and whether he needs therapy or not (he can stop …
Apr 10, 2025: Crashlands 2 is out. It’s been interesting getting to hear from the CEO in one of the Discord communities I’m in along their journey. Go check it out …
Apr 9, 2025: Moving my #Twitch activity to a new account. Don’t be alarmed if you get a new “lemon” follower that looks kind of like me. 😆 Find me at LemonCasting …
Apr 8, 2025: I’m live with @ultranurd@mastodon.social chatting Apple Arcade updates and Switch 2 www.twitch.tv/lemonpodc…
Apr 8, 2025: If you’re looking for an app to do dual video recording (front + back camera at the same time) as rumoured for the camera app on iPhone 17, check out …
Apr 7, 2025: I’m sure Tim Cook is glad he gave Trump $1 million earlier this year, now that he sees he’ll have to give more to get Apple’s products exempted from …
Apr 7, 2025: The protests this weekend seemed like a massive event across the USA… but now what? (Genuine question, not snarking.) The next actual check on Trump …
Apr 7, 2025: I like to think Neville doesn’t shed that much, but then I put on sweatpants.
Apr 5, 2025: “Should I just put my business’ finances up on GitHub in some sort of open source financial experiment?” and other thoughts I have avoiding doing my …
Apr 4, 2025: On the list of crap Trump has caused, delaying the Switch 2 preorders for America is pretty low in terms of importance. But it’s little things like …
Apr 3, 2025: Drinking a homemade iced coffee at 3:30pm. What’s the worst that could happen?
Apr 3, 2025: I may have a stressful CRA + GST filing letter sitting on my desk, but at least Paul Rudd went day drinking with Seth Meyers so I can laugh while I’m …
Apr 2, 2025: Tombstone, 1993 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday April 2, 1994.
Apr 2, 2025: Heat, 1995 - ★★★★ Watched on Tuesday April 2, 1996.
Apr 2, 2025: Nobody needs to know how long it took me to figure out there was an automated fade on a #podcast track and not some sort of recording issue I needed …
Apr 2, 2025: New blog post: Batman: Year One Podcast
Apr 2, 2025: Woof. $629CAD for the Switch 2 pushes it well beyond the sub-$500 of the original Switch. I know it’ll sell a ton even at that price, but I was hoping …
Apr 2, 2025: Welp - guess it’s time to watch Heat and Tombstone with the oldest this weekend.
Apr 2, 2025: MicDrop looks like a must have for any USB mic using podcaster or livestreamer - now with Stream Deck support, which feels odd because why not just …
Mar 31, 2025: Adolescence, 2025 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.
Mar 31, 2025: We borrowed my mother-in-law’s air fryer to try it out. Send me your best air fryer tips and tricks please.
Mar 31, 2025: If Apple does release a new Apple TV this year, I think we’ll have to record a new episode of 25c when it’s announced. 😆
Mar 31, 2025: Who’s walking who? 🐶
Mar 29, 2025: The Wild Robot, 2024 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.
Mar 29, 2025: I managed to fix my old Heil shock mount that I was about to throw out with a very niche solution: duck tape and pliers. And in moving things around I …
Mar 29, 2025: New blog post: How I Use Fiddling With My Tools to Avoid Doing the Work
Mar 28, 2025: Wow. If Gruber adds an image embed to a post, you know Apple’s fumbled the ball big time. 😆
Mar 28, 2025: Andy Bell and crew have got a great senior level “Complete CSS Course” over at Piccalil. And it looks like there’s a nice PPP (purchasing power parity …
Mar 28, 2025: This little 💩 pulled me over just as I stepped on to ice. I guess I’ll still let him come home with me. 😠 🤕
Mar 28, 2025: OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself I think one of the worst parts of it is that the styles that get aped the most …
Mar 27, 2025: Don’t forget to eat lunch you dummy. (It’s me. I’m the dummy.)
Mar 27, 2025: In a world menaced by a Donald, be a Larry. According to comments, he listened to hours of testimony and then came up and said this.
Mar 27, 2025: I’m going to be live this afternoon talking with Tim about naming things and whatever else comes up, so feel free to join in a couple hours from RIGHT …
Mar 27, 2025: Do you see why I get so confused about time zones? I realize there’s a slight change by Google in the second one to Central Time (CT) instead of …
Mar 26, 2025: Uh oh. Looks like I’m running in a British Columbia election.
Mar 26, 2025: Calling out the Signal leak for what it is is great and all, but the rest of the world knows that nothing is going to change. Is anybody going to be …
Mar 26, 2025: All my Discord servers are full of people upset about the UI changes Discord made. So I’d guess engagement is up? Good work team.
Mar 26, 2025: This is the modern Clippy except its only purpose is to tell me to pay Notion more for a feature I don’t want, and I can’t get rid of it. So the next …
Mar 24, 2025: Updated my /uses/ page from last year. Not updating my photo though because my office is nowhere near that clean or organized right now. 😱
Mar 24, 2025: What have you enjoyed that’s on Steam’s City Builder & Colony Sim promotion that I should buy and forget to play on Steam? 😆 🕹️
Mar 24, 2025: Someone at Costco was watching my chat with Tim 😆
Mar 24, 2025: For anyone having trouble getting today’s ShopTalk Show episode, they’re having some issues with web hosting that will hopefully be sorted soon. In …
Mar 24, 2025: “He’s a Cybertruck in human form, and that is almost certainly the point.”
Mar 23, 2025: Happy Sunday. Hope you find somewhere to lay your head for a nap that’s more comfortable than the bottom of a chair. 😆 🐶
Mar 22, 2025: Nice to buy an Xbox and fancy monitor so my kid can use it and I get the sucky Switch. 😝
Mar 22, 2025: The Electric State, 2025 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.
Mar 22, 2025: “You won’t bury me in a suit and tie, right?” “I’ll bury you in that “RIP twitter” shirt you always wear.” “You’ll bury me in the backyard with all of …
Mar 22, 2025: A healthy media diet is Severance, then White Lotus, then Last of Us, then Shrinking. Dystopian followed by beautiful visuals. Repeat.
Mar 21, 2025: Here’s yesterday’s recording of Tim and I chatting about his DJI cam and mic’s, thoughts on YouTube podcasting, when podcast audio is bad enough to …
Mar 21, 2025: Charles Barkley is my hero of the day 😆 This ain’t Fox News - we don’t have to repeat everything the idiot says every day
Mar 21, 2025: Crumbl Cookies: When you’re too tired to shove a stick of butter and a bag of chocolate chips in your mouth, and wash it all down with a glass of …
Mar 21, 2025: Reading this review of Ghost’s public beta of ActivityPub support makes me really happy I picked Ghost as the CMS for my blog.
Mar 20, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch talking with Tim about his new gear, podcasts on YouTube, and what makes a podcast episode unlistenable.
Mar 20, 2025: 14 days until we find out more about the Nintendo Switch 2. 😬🤩
Mar 19, 2025: Captain America: Brave New World, 2025 - ★★½ (contains spoilers) This review may contain spoilers. Did this feel different if you watched it before Trump 2.0 took office? Because seeing the President put behind …
Mar 19, 2025: I remember joking before our last trip to the USA in the fall of 2024 saying “better do it now before Trump”, not realizing how true it was going to …
Mar 19, 2025: Love this expansion of enshittification from Dave: In an era where we’re able to rapidly generate cheap low quality content or software at a scale …
Mar 18, 2025: I need everyone to pause putting out cool tv series so I can catch up. I’m still behind on Silo, Severance, Shrinking, Survivor, Skeleton Crew, …
Mar 17, 2025: The ShopTalk Show YouTube channel couldn’t have come at a better time for @davatron5000’s confessional video. 🧝♂️🧝♀️🦝
Mar 17, 2025: Happy Monday. The washing machine is still being weird so why not add a broken peanut butter container to the mix? 😝 🤦♂️
Mar 16, 2025: Currently looking up how to get nail glue out of a washing machine as well as how to send a child to boarding school for one very specific reason. 😪
Mar 16, 2025: I went out for drinks with a friend and we talked about how, as 40 something year old dads, we don’t really have any friends. And somehow we managed …
Mar 16, 2025: Read the book that Meta not only doesn’t want you to read, but wants to prevent its author from even talking about.
Mar 15, 2025: One #Fortnite win tonight. Go out on a high. 😆
Mar 15, 2025: Boop!
Mar 15, 2025: Black Bag, 2025 - ★★★½ Cate Blanchett. Michael Fassbender. End review.
Mar 15, 2025: One of these teams is not in the right division. 😆
Mar 15, 2025: Someday I need to add up how many people actually listen (or are subscribed) to all the various podcasts I edit for clients each week. I think it …
Mar 15, 2025: There’s a lot of software I use (coughs in Notion’s direction) where I feel like they could charge extra for no AI and I’d pay it. Plus they’d make …
Mar 14, 2025: Hey Apple—I’m trying my hardest to use Safari + Tab Groups instead of Arc / Chrome, but Safari keeps crashing on a 32GB M2 Max Mac Studio. Daily.
Mar 14, 2025: I really hope the way Marco Rubio was welcomed to Canada was intentional trolling. 😆
Mar 14, 2025: March is when I start getting personally insulted by any amount of snow falling.
Mar 14, 2025: I’m not sure what these are exactly, but I’ve really enjoyed the podcast-related conversations I’ve been having with Tim each week on my Twitch …
Mar 14, 2025: We need to bring back the 2001 Rick Mercer talking to Americans series.
Mar 13, 2025: I’m going to be live this afternoon talking with my friend Tim about ideas for podcasts around 1:45pm CST / 3:45pm EST. Lurk or join the chat over on …
Mar 13, 2025: Just a reminder that if you have any appointments with someone who lives in Saskatchewn this week, you will realize sooner or later that we’re in CST …
Mar 13, 2025: If a podcast I’m editing references it, I’m required to post it: Ludacris Llama Llama Red Pajama Freestyle
Mar 13, 2025: Notion Calendar adds new “record your podcast” feature? 😜
Mar 13, 2025: That’s about as scathing an article on Apple that I think I’ve ever read from Gruber. And well deserved.
Mar 12, 2025: Even Colbert was surprised at the joy his audience had for announcing how much money Musk lost on the stock market.
Mar 12, 2025: The fact that Apple Music is on this list of sites monitored by a contractor for ICE should prompt some changes at Apple immediately.
Mar 11, 2025: Apple re-enabling Apple Intelligence with each iOS update is a bug that needs to be fixed ASAP if they want the trust of their users who are already …
Mar 11, 2025: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday March 10, 2025.
Mar 11, 2025: I asked this in a Discord I’m in, but just confirming that I didn’t misunderstand or miss something: at no point was “taking over Canada” part of …
Mar 10, 2025: Woke up to the vacuum not working, the dog being off (seems fine now), and fresh snow on top of all the ice from the melt we’ve been having. Feels …
Mar 8, 2025: Normally I think it’s silly to sing a national anthem before a sporting event that isn’t an international kind of thing like the Olympics. But given …
Mar 8, 2025: Let’s do some hockey game’ ing. #GoBladesGo
Mar 8, 2025: Finally getting around to checking out Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. The first episode was a lot of fun. If the rest of the series is like this, I can …
Mar 8, 2025: Looper, 2012 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.
Mar 7, 2025: The Prestige, 2006 - ★★★★½ Watched on Friday March 7, 2025.
Mar 7, 2025: New blog post: America the Beautiful (…with much ❤️ to the amazing American people I know who are not in support of what’s going on.)
Mar 7, 2025: The keyboard change is typical of Apple’s meticulous attention to detail, even if it took more than a quarter-century to implement. I’m sorry what? 😆 …
Mar 7, 2025: Noah Kahan dropping a new song on Sesame Street (TikTok link) is the perfect antidote to all the things.
Mar 6, 2025: Double the Baymax, double the victory Royale? #fortnite
Mar 6, 2025: New blog post: Apple Gives Away Bono Documentary (Apple Vision Pro Not Included)
Mar 6, 2025: Being able to right click on a layer and click “remove background” and it just works™ right away is still a thing that breaks my brain a little even …
Mar 6, 2025: I agree with Colbert - Americans can’t take Trump seriously but not literally like they did in Trump 1.0. You need to take him seriously and …
Mar 6, 2025: I thought you used to be able to confirm Apple Pay on a Mac with your iPhone? Why can I confirm a purchase on $200 Apple TV hardware, but I can’t do …
Mar 5, 2025: New blog post: We are Canadian.
Mar 5, 2025: Being someone who can often catastrophize about things, it was super helpful to get to edit a podcast with a host + guest who also catastrophize. …
Mar 5, 2025: JD Vance is the kind of driver who gets mad if people don’t wave thanks to him when he slows down to let them cross the street in front of his car.
Mar 5, 2025: If I was the CEO of Notion, I’d spend the next 6 - 12 months focusing on making the app as fast as possible, while adding as few new features as …
Mar 4, 2025: Last game of the regular hockey season is a good sign that spring is coming soon. (They won too!)
Mar 4, 2025: Happy Shrove / Pancake Tuesday to all who celebrate.
Mar 4, 2025: For the last 4 springs, we’ve had issues with water filling up a basement window well. I always assumed it was our issue, but in the fall the …
Mar 4, 2025: New blog post: David Cross Is Starting to Regret His Vote For Trump
Mar 4, 2025: Seems like a good reason to get an iPad (A16) model tbh lol
Mar 4, 2025: ps Balatro is made in Canada. Playing it is a way to support Canadian. 😆 🎮
Mar 3, 2025: I hate living out of fear, but please talk to your kids about extortion / sextortion that happens online. Some of these incidents happen so fast, …
Mar 3, 2025: I want to do a live stream but it’s just focused on the door to my office. All you’d see is my dog push the door open every so often and poke his head …
Mar 3, 2025: I caved and finally washed my truck on the weekend. It’s already dirty again of course. But how many times do you get to wash a vehicle in February …
Mar 2, 2025: Mike Myers demonstrated a perfect way to show support for #Canada on SNL last night. Clearly should’ve been the honorary captain for Canada, not …
Mar 1, 2025: My kids love it when I meet them where they’re at (on Snapchat).
Mar 1, 2025: Why is search and typing in Apple’s own Passwords app so slow? Just me? I’m on a Mac Studio so hopefully searching through a text database would be …
Feb 28, 2025: 2 years ago I was blogging about how tearing Twitter down was easy. I could almost do a find and replace and republish as “tearing down America is …
Feb 28, 2025: JD Vance reminds me of so many men in the evangelical church world who’ve failed up into positions of authority and power, but somehow believe they’ve …
Feb 28, 2025: Now I really need to update my “you’re getting a little Skype-y” phrase when a remote podcast recording isn’t coming through properly: Skype is …
Feb 28, 2025: I love this Harrison Ford cranky old but actually really sweet guy energy for 2025.
Feb 28, 2025: It was nice to go to watch my kid’s hockey game last night and not step outside to -30C when we left.
Feb 28, 2025: That’s probably enough internet for the day. Time to shut it down everyone. We’ll pick it back up again where we’re left off tomorrow.
Feb 27, 2025: It really sucks to have to explain to my kids that Americans probably don’t actually hate us, and that most of them probably don’t really want to take …
Feb 27, 2025: I’m so tired of not being able to trust if someone is a human, bot, or spam / phishing account online. And I know it’s just going to get worse as the …
Feb 27, 2025: New blog post: Subscribe to the Podcast Version of My Blog Wherever You Get Your Podcasts
Feb 27, 2025: People are leaving actual comments on my blog. It feels like it’s 2010 again. 😆
Feb 26, 2025: Trying out a different Ghost theme for my blog and also leaning in to the newsletter angle Ghost uses. How’s it look on your device of choice?
Feb 26, 2025: This might be the one thing to get me to go buy a Vision Pro. 😆 #U2
Feb 25, 2025: Kid playing Quest VR (Gorilla Tag?)while other kid drums while the dog lays out hoping to get stepped on. How’s your chill Tuesday night going?
Feb 25, 2025: The entire 5 season run of Orphan Black is on for $9.99CAD on AppleTV which seems like an error somehow?
Feb 25, 2025: I think it’s fine for software companies to raise their prices. But I wonder how many people are on Notion’s legacy Plus plan at $48/year that are …
Feb 24, 2025: First time getting a vehicle towed achievement unlocked. ✅ (Technically it’s my son’s vehicle.) Apparently the drive belt slipped off while driving, …
Feb 24, 2025: Is there any decent #WordPress themes out there that aren’t just blocks and patterns that force you to build your own website? I want a theme that’s …
Feb 24, 2025: So far I’m liking the slow transition from 1Password to macOS / iOS’ built in password manager, but the one request I have is to be able to set a …
Feb 23, 2025: It’s never going to be a great time to wash the vehicle this week (or month), but when is the optimal time when a spring melt is happening?
Feb 22, 2025: Today a “real-life friend” told me they read something on my blog and it didn’t make me shrivel up into a tiny ball. So… I guess I’ve made some …
Feb 21, 2025: Nodding along to Leah Reich’s thoughts here: We don’t need no innovation.
Feb 20, 2025: Very important tech issue: why does Balatro for macOS (Apple Arcade) not respect “Windowed” as a setting? It desperately wants to always be full …
Feb 20, 2025: Sorry, no live stream today. 3 kids + a friend + a dog means I have a 100% chance of being interrupted. I couldn’t even finish writing this without a …
Feb 20, 2025: I’m glad the AI machine overlords are able to pick out the important bits from podcasts. 🤖💨
Feb 20, 2025: As silly as Apple’s Apple Intelligence is at times, when I see stuff like OpenAI removing any sort of safeguards on their product in the pursuit of …
Feb 20, 2025: I’m with Louie Mantia, Imran Chaudhri & Humane ripped people off so they could cosplay as Steve Jobs for a few years. (my words, not Louie’s).
Feb 20, 2025: There’s a million more important things that need to be dealt with, but if someone could tell the sitting US President to stop being a petty man baby …
Feb 19, 2025: I don’t know how or when US citizens move from posting “oh wow I can’t believe this is happening” to figuring out how to stop it, but I sure hope the …
Feb 18, 2025: One of those days where I can’t wait until it’s time to play a round of Balatro and fall asleep. Whatever gets me to warm temperatures faster right …
Feb 18, 2025: It only takes a few clicks to see this is a satirical account, and yet because of the reality of American politics in 2025, it’s difficult to know …
Feb 17, 2025: Supposedly a high of plus 3 by the weekend. 🙏🏻
Feb 16, 2025: Sunday morning sinus med induced thought: If Musk invaded Canada, Americans would post how upset they are about it… and nothing would actually be done …
Feb 15, 2025: Thank you SNL for acknowledging 🇨🇦
Feb 15, 2025: “Holy crap! Kill this Thor! How is he getting away with this?!” - 10pts if you can name the game being played in the basement that prompted this loud …
Feb 14, 2025: I promised Tim I wouldn’t exclaim “I can’t believe they can do that in the browser” over and over last time we recorded, so I made my own YT short …
Feb 14, 2025: I just realized that “Cisco”, the tech company, is named that because it’s from San Francisco. A good reminder that you’re never too old to learn …
Feb 13, 2025: I don’t get why random ppl try to friend me on Fortnite? Didn’t their parents teach them not to hang out with strangers on the internet? 😂
Feb 13, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch or YouTube trying out Riverside’s video editing abilities. Come hang out and ask any q’s you have about podcasting or winters …
Feb 13, 2025: I’m going to be live streaming this afternoon trying out Riverside’s video editing abilities (1:45pm CST / 2:45pm EST). Feel free to join on Twitch or …
Feb 13, 2025: “Stupid hooman doesn’t know you can just pee outside. Woof.”
Feb 12, 2025: Apple advertising on Twitter again is gross.
Feb 12, 2025: Trying out Greg Morris’ new iOS app for Micro.blog: Micro Social.
Feb 12, 2025: New blog post: Getting Ghosted by Ghost’s Comments
Feb 12, 2025: “It’s cold enough I bet you could freeze some water out there.” is not something we ever say around here.
Feb 10, 2025: My throat is a little sore tonight which I’m sure is unrelated to the sickness three people in my family had over the last week. What are the odds I’d …
Feb 10, 2025: Turns out Neville’s a big Severance fan.
Feb 9, 2025: One of those times when reading to one of my kids before bed and the book is so good I don’t realize they’ve fallen asleep. Have to re-read the last …
Feb 8, 2025: Caught a WHL hockey game tonight (Saskatoon Blades beat the Regina Pats). The main attraction at any hockey game is actually the food, of course. The …
Feb 7, 2025: If we could get a week of -15C instead of -30C, that’d be awesome for everyone. 🥶
Feb 6, 2025: I complain about going to my kid’s hockey games, but I actually do enjoy (most of) it. I’m glad he’s on a team that takes a chill approach to winning …
Feb 6, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch or YouTube setting up a podcast feed for audio posts for my blog. Come hang out and ask any q’s you have about podcasting or …
Feb 6, 2025: Cool - the developer of Balatro is from my province, Saskatchewan, here in Canada. And the game only exists thanks to the harsh prairie winters we …
Feb 6, 2025: “We picked a fight with the Labradoodle of allies?” Jon Stewart / The Daily Show on USA picking a fight with Canada
Feb 6, 2025: I’m going to be live streaming this afternoon talking about setting up a podcast feed for audio posts for my blog (1:45pm CST / 2:45pm EST), so feel …
Feb 6, 2025: Good coffee + good blog post by @Annie: I have a problem with anyone pretending to be a gray-toned, one-sided cardboard cutout in order to appeal to …
Feb 6, 2025: Alright winter that’s quite enough snow for the season. I’m going to have to start storing it in my garage pretty soon.
Feb 5, 2025: If you’ve ever watched (or heard) Jason Lengstorf, you know what this sound is. 😉 He’s got the best, most infectious laugh in tech.
Feb 5, 2025: The way the USA is destroying decades of good will around the world by letting Musk / Trump destroy USAID is mind boggling. You can debate how much …
Feb 5, 2025: New blog post: Do Real-Life People Blog?
Feb 5, 2025: Nice! Cardhop (contacts app for macOS / iOS from the makers of Fantastical) adds support for Bluesky usernames.
Feb 4, 2025: I don’t know if it was a great idea to start reading Station Eleven to my youngest while there’s sickness floating around our home, but it’s not a …
Feb 4, 2025: I love the through line from zines to email newsletters: In praise of zines
Feb 4, 2025: New blog post: Keeping up with it all is too much. Give me sarcasm and empathy straight into my veins.
Feb 4, 2025: You know who is loving Apple AI? Parents with kids who they can let play with the various Apple AI tools and not worry they’re going to stumble on to …
Feb 3, 2025: A B level team playing a C level team should have the humility to recognize what’s going on, as should the parents / coaches. Anyway… glad to never …
Feb 3, 2025: Too real: Are you a man looking for friends? Start a podcast!
Feb 3, 2025: Neville’s got me trapped. 😆
Feb 3, 2025: Musk cheating at video games should be enough to sink his nerd cred, but I know the fanboys will just spin it into how cool it is that he’s so rich he …
Feb 3, 2025: This guide to using Signal for USA government workers works just as well as a primer for using Signal for the rest of us, with all the nerd security …
Feb 3, 2025: I’d guess that policing each other about whether we’re shopping Canadian enough is something the Trump crowd would be happy to watch us all do. It’s …
Feb 3, 2025: Winter just keeps on coming up with ways to be the worst.
Feb 2, 2025: A weekend of nothing but rink food and I feel like I’m one half puck burger, and the other half is poutine. What’s the Canadian version of Tums?
Feb 1, 2025: Bob Marley: One Love, 2024 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday February 1, 2025.
Jan 31, 2025: Super excited to be among the first to try out the ❄️ highways tomorrow morning. 🥶 Colonsay, Saskatchewan here we come because hockey never gets shut …
Jan 31, 2025: Whiplash, 2014 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday January 31, 2025.
Jan 31, 2025: Is $115 for a bunnyhug a lot of money or am I just stuck in 2005 pricing? I want to support local… but, dang.
Jan 31, 2025: Comfort Movies Started off this list via Kottke. Flow The Holdovers Fire Island The French Dispatch David Byrne's American Utopia Little Women Won't You Be My …
Jan 31, 2025: “Hey asshole it’s 12:10pm and my food bowl isn’t filled with rocks. Let’s go.” - Neville’s got the sad, I’m dying because I haven’t eaten eyes locked …
Jan 31, 2025: Meta Quest VR stuff is wild. It shouldn’t be too surprising that Meta tries to connect all the things… but in Horizons app afterwards, it shows …
Jan 31, 2025: AI is taking over podcasting with it’s giant microphone and piercing, dead eyes. Also be sure your podcast is inclusive of people with three legs.
Jan 31, 2025: 😂 “Yes, an obsession with IQ is ‘astrology for racists’” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle…
Jan 30, 2025: Kid From the Opposing Team: “The kid was smiling!” Me working the penalty box: “You tripped him and so he drew a penalty.” Kid: “I didn’t mean to.” …
Jan 30, 2025: I went through all the trouble of setting up a dog cam for the stream only for said dog to lay on the floor instead of the chair.
Jan 30, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch or YouTube doing some podcast production work. Come hang out and ask any q’s you have about podcasting or winters in Canada. 🥶
Jan 30, 2025: I’m just over 200 likes away from getting my dream of a Brett Goldstein touring America documentary. I watch late night tv on TikTok in the morning.
Jan 30, 2025: I’m focusing 100% of my marketing efforts for 2025 on walking around empty Meta Horizon VR worlds asking if anyone needs a podcast editor. (This was …
Jan 29, 2025: Every so often I manage to sneak on to my Xbox connected to my tv and play a bit of Fortnite or NHL ‘25. I’ve settled back on using Gwenpool, Baymax …
Jan 29, 2025: I’ll drink coffee to recover. Neville chose the floor. 🐶
Jan 29, 2025: Up until 1 to pick up oldest from a winter formal at school, awake until 2:30 waiting for him to get home from taking pics at an odr, then up at 6:30 …
Jan 28, 2025: I slipped on the ice while taking Neville for a walk tonight. I’m sure I’ll feel some random muscle pain in 2 days. As much as 2C in January is nice, …
Jan 28, 2025: I love my American friends. But ya’ll look like clowns right now.
Jan 28, 2025: This dog is ridiculous.
Jan 28, 2025: New blog post: Federated Following Confusion Featuring Matt Haughey
Jan 28, 2025: I’d love to ditch Meta (FB, WhatsApp, IG, and now Threads), but whenever I open Threads I see posts from people i follow that I can’t find elsewhere. …
Jan 28, 2025: I appreciate that Buttondown makes sure you’re serious enough about the relationship before allowing naked mode. 😆
Jan 28, 2025: New blog post: Missing Notifications in iOS 18
Jan 27, 2025: I don’t know why, but it bothers me so much that the Descript dot com version is snappier than the desktop version on my Mac Studio. 😆
Jan 27, 2025: Just checking what happens if I bold some text or maybe italicize it via Micro.blog and then cross-posting to Bluesky.
Jan 27, 2025: TIkTok’s frantic effort to skirt the U.S. ban as the White House changed hands: “It was all a game. It was like a competition: What’s a creative way …
Jan 27, 2025: I see a resurgence in the use of Signal as a WhatsApp / Messenger / etc. alternative. Is it secure to share your username publicly? Or more of a thing …
Jan 27, 2025: Seems like today’s iOS & macOS updates might be worth doing for security reasons more so than an AI slop features.
Jan 27, 2025: I’m thankful that Ben Thompson woke up early to go deep on DeepSeek. Meta, meanwhile, is the biggest winner of all. A big barrier to realizing their …
Jan 26, 2025: Soup of the day 🍻
Jan 25, 2025: How long is this in real time?
Jan 24, 2025: Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.
Jan 23, 2025: I’m live now on Twitch or YouTube doing some podcast production work. Come hang out and ask any q’s you have about podcasting or winters in Canada. 🥶
Jan 23, 2025: How to tell my movie selection is dominated by life with teens: the only movies I’ve seen out of all the feature films nominated at the 2025 Oscars …
Jan 23, 2025: I’m going to be live streaming while I work a bit more on my Why’d You Follow Me? podcast this afternoon (1:45pm CST / 2:45pm EST), so feel free to …
Jan 23, 2025: Paul Kafasis shows why blogging is still so very important in 2025: Not So Super, Apple.
Jan 23, 2025: How many people who bought a Vision Pro are still using it somewhat regularly today? I have to imagine it’s a fairly low percentage based on how …
Jan 23, 2025: New blog post: Tim Cook + Apple—A Moment of Intense Optimism, Shattered.
Jan 22, 2025: Currently reading: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman 📚
Jan 22, 2025: I just played a Quest 2 game (Population: One?) with my son and a random dude named “Cock Swellington” and had a blast. I also kinda feel like …
Jan 22, 2025: I don’t need a therapist to know that for how often I add “…but, no pressure!” to my messages, I struggle with some sort of imposter syndrome when …
Jan 22, 2025: Ah yes thank you transcription bot - Westboss is a great dev to follow. Much better than Eastboss. 😆
Jan 22, 2025: How is a package that started the day in Memphis, TN going to make it up here by 5pm today? 🤔
Jan 21, 2025: I love / hate Shrinking on AppleTV+. It’s a beautifully written, shot, acted, and produced series. But it makes me jealous of adults having a …
Jan 21, 2025: Costco this morning was nice and empty. Not so nice were all the cars I saw in ditched along the road. Be careful out there today #yxe, it’s …
Jan 20, 2025: Finished reading: Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 📚
Jan 20, 2025: I had to reset the counter for “days since I’ve heard someone say ‘I’m not a racist, but…” last week. And I suspect it’s only going to start happening …
Jan 20, 2025: Apropos of nothing going on in the world, what would be the best movie(s) or tv series to watch with teenagers to start conversations about fascism? 🤔 …
Jan 20, 2025: In an effort to ignore all the things™ and focus on work, I instead ignored all the things and accomplished nothing this morning besides down 3 cups …
Jan 19, 2025: Disney+ promoting the livestream of Trump’s inauguration on my Canadian account is certainly a choice.
Jan 19, 2025: Somehow it was even colder in the rink today. I won’t miss the cold, but I will miss being able to pat my kid on the head as they skate by.
Jan 18, 2025: It’s a freezing -31C outside—what better day to be in a natural ice hockey rink all day? 🥶
Jan 18, 2025: My kid is playing with Apple’s Image Playground app on the Mac Mini and came up with this pretty good version of me if I’d pursued my dream to be a …
Jan 18, 2025: Relaxing morning with a piece of toast, coffee, and a super needy, teething dog.
Jan 17, 2025: Hold me in your thoughts tonight: I have to go to Martensville.
Jan 17, 2025: Overthinking myself into a corner is still my vibe for 2025. At least I think it is? Wait—what if it isn’t? Oh shoot. Have I already wasted the first …
Jan 17, 2025: I think it’ll take 5+ years of near top tier games on the Mac before I will genuinely believe that this is the year of gaming on the Mac - but this …
Jan 17, 2025: I really don’t need yet another blog or CMS, but the folks behind Good Enough have built a lovely little blogging engine in Pika that you should check …
Jan 17, 2025: Video games my kids are playing these days: Brawl Stars, Fortnite, Marvel Rivels, Balatro, Valorant, Pavlov. Roblox used to be in the mix, but they …
Jan 16, 2025: I’ve found the key to running a successful business—particularly as a solo entrepreneur—anytime business is slow, make a schedule with your family of …
Jan 16, 2025: Hang out with Tim and I around 1:45pm CST / 2:45pm EST as he joins me to ask questions about setting up a new podcast. Join us on YouTube or Twitch …
Jan 16, 2025: Based off this teaser trailer, I’m glad it seems like Nintendo decided to do more of the same, just upgraded everything for the Switch 2.
Jan 15, 2025: Oh look… there’s more to yet another Matt Mullenweg behaving like a giant man-baby story. I am so surprised.
Jan 15, 2025: I don’t think CoPilot is ok. (This was the suggestion in a fairly empty text document.)
Jan 14, 2025: I kind of wish TikTok would publish USA user numbers vs the rest of the world and say… “meh - we’re actually going to be fine without you” 😆
Jan 13, 2025: The way a teenager can text “What are we doing for supper?” and it has nothing to do with “how can I help figure out supper” and everything to do with …
Jan 13, 2025: I think Shortcuts on iOS / macOS are amazing, and I’m glad it’s a feature Apple continues to support. I also 100% forget to ever use them. Which is …
Jan 13, 2025: Bluesky has finally arrived: “Switch 2” is trending. 😆
Jan 13, 2025: Yeah sure - Matt Mullenweg can be trusted and this childish act of kicking people out so they will go fork WordPress - he’s become the internet’s …
Jan 13, 2025: 😆 Your TikTok China assigned spy saying goodbye. (TikTok link, duh.)
Jan 13, 2025: Don’t respond to “reply STOP” or “reply NO” to phishing attempts on your iPhone: Phishing Attacks Use This Simple Trick to Defeat iPhone Message …
Jan 12, 2025: He fell asleep like this so I guess I’m stuck here forever
Jan 11, 2025: Neville is unimpressed by your plans for Saturday. ( 📸 taken by my kid)
Jan 10, 2025: I despise the way Meta is washing their hands of content moderation—and have to think they love that it’s “Meta” in the headlines, not “Facebook” or …
Jan 10, 2025: These cold call emails with a “private video looking at your website” where it’s so obviously a mashed up quick screen recording of someone at my …
Jan 10, 2025: From my archives (way back in… 2020?) - I still get a kick out of seeing someone watch / hear U2 for the first time. And that she picked a concert …
Jan 9, 2025: It feels so bizarre to look out my window and see a white, frozen arctic tundra landscape while I also read and see the devastation being caused by …
Jan 9, 2025: New blog post: My Social Media Timeline. It’s nothing particularly new in thought, just my annual(ish) reflection on time spent in the social media …
Jan 9, 2025: I was listening to The Daily’s episode on Justin Trudeau stepping down and they ended by implying that progressive politics is on the way out… which …
Jan 8, 2025: Aside from a search engine of some sort, what’s a website or two that you still visit directly in the browser? i.e. you don’t search for it, don’t …
Jan 8, 2025: I haven’t been getting proper notifications from lots of apps on my iPhone for a while now… other than text messages, everything else is a crap shoot …
Jan 8, 2025: …and then this post, “We should not confuse what makes money with what is good” kind of riffs off Meta & LLM’s with a similar sentiment to my previous …
Jan 8, 2025: 👏 Podcasting’s unique selling proposition is not video: “I think that the rush to video is possibly the biggest lowlight, not just for last year, but …
Jan 7, 2025: Uh oh. I’m on the highway to hell.
Jan 7, 2025: Some days I can’t even muster the confidence of a mediocre white man. Woof.
Jan 7, 2025: If you have a YouTube channel, there’s a setting to check to allow third-party companies to train AI models using your channel’s content.
Jan 7, 2025: Not going to lie, WWE being on Netflix greatly increases the odds of me getting way back into wrestling in 2025 which would then increase the odds of …
Jan 6, 2025: Currently reading: Yellowface by R. F. Kuang 📚
Jan 6, 2025: Checking in on America to see how they’re remembering the chaos of January 6th 4 years ago… Ah I see they’re making plans to reinstate the dude who …
Jan 6, 2025: New (old) blog post📝: Movies Take Years
Jan 6, 2025: I realize there’s probably a world where this is a good thing, but all these AI appointment generator adverts sound like my nightmare.
Jan 5, 2025: Finished reading: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 📚
Jan 5, 2025: Godspeed to parents, teachers, and anyone elder going back to regular routine tomorrow morning. May your coffee be hot and your cream unspoiled. 🙏🏻
Jan 5, 2025: Me playing most of the Zelda or Metroid games on Switch: k wait - what am I supposed to be doing right now?? 🤔
Jan 4, 2025: Carry-On, 2024 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday January 4, 2025.
Jan 4, 2025: The Truman Show, 1998 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday January 3, 2025.
Jan 3, 2025: U2’s The Edge, also a happy Shure SM7B podcaster? You’d think professional musicians would have better mic technique though. It looks pretty far away …
Jan 3, 2025: I assume these are related topics over on Elon’s amazing website.
Jan 3, 2025: If you wanted to check out Micro.blog as just a blog, they’ve launched a new $1USD/month plan called Micro.one.
Jan 3, 2025: It’s Friday. Probably.
Jan 2, 2025: Yessss Canada finally ties this stupid game. 😂 World Junior Hockey Championship is always more stressful than it needs to be.
Jan 2, 2025: Pro tip: if you’re taking a vehicle in to get the remote starter looked at, it helps to bring the remote starter fobs with you. Unless you’re like me …
Jan 1, 2025: Currently editing 35 minutes of video from our NYE family activities down to a watchable ~10m version which we then watch, along with the other 12 …
Jan 1, 2025: The only downside to having a raclette supper, a NYE tradition around here thanks to my dad working in Germany for a year back in 2000, is now the …
Jan 1, 2025: Happy 2025 y’all. 🎉
Dec 31, 2024: Go Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championships. Which reminds me: I used to have a friendly bet every year on this game with Christopher Schmitt. …
Dec 31, 2024: Happy New Year’s Eve! 🎉
Dec 31, 2024: Mufasa: The Lion King, 2024 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.
Dec 31, 2024: Always fun to look back: New Year Resolutions of Old: Once Vices Now Virtues
Dec 30, 2024: I can’t remember what day or time it is today. I’m sorry if I planned a meeting with anyone today I can assure you it’s not happening. 😕 😆
Dec 29, 2024: How the heck do Americans not know who Robbie Williams is? They’re just discovering him for the first time via his biopic apparently.
Dec 29, 2024: 1Password subscription renews Jan 1st, 2025. So I’ve got 2 days to make the move to Apple Passwords. Wish me luck.
Dec 29, 2024: Hot Rod, 2007 - ★★★★ It’s a Christmas movie.
Dec 27, 2024: Ooof. ♥️
Dec 27, 2024: Was a great day to flood the rink. Still trying to get it flat flat, but it’s mostly flat and that’s good enough for how much ppl pay to skate here.
Dec 26, 2024: The face of a puppy who’s just realized Christmas happens once a year, not every day.
Dec 25, 2024: Shovelled the rink in a tshirt and got a sweet haul of books. Merry Christmas ya’ll. 📚
Dec 24, 2024: Klaus, 2019 - ★★★★ Watched on Tuesday December 24, 2024.
Dec 24, 2024: I remember when I was young and could sleep in whatever position I fell in without worrying about neck and back pain the next morning.
Dec 24, 2024: I dreamt that I got to tell off an a-hole in my life in a way that I never would in reality, so I guess I’ve already got all the Xmas gifts I need …
Dec 23, 2024: Whether the Jets win or lose the game, I delight in them making Leafs’ fans Christmas break extra stressful by being up 3-1 in the third period. 😆
Dec 23, 2024: Please slow down out there. Drove past this accident in Saskatoon that 100% didn’t need to happen any day, but especially 2 days before Xmas.
Dec 23, 2024: This creater economy platform costs calculator from Buttondown (email newsletter app) is an easy way to compare pricing. It’s less easy to measure …
Dec 23, 2024: Does anyone out there have the random combination of a Elgato HD60 S+ capture device and a Mac Studio - or probably any Mac running macOS 15.x? I …
Dec 23, 2024: I had a strong temptation to leave the microwave in it’s used by 3 kids state because I know my mother-in-law would notice it and clean it, but I …
Dec 22, 2024: Even better at night with the lights.
Dec 22, 2024: Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday December 22, 2024.
Dec 22, 2024: The hoar frost is extra hoary today.
Dec 22, 2024: What’s the semi-unrealistic thing on your Xmas list that you were sure Santa wouldn’t be getting for you, but you got anyway? Mine was a CD burner for …
Dec 21, 2024: Haven’t done one of these in a while: I’m headed to Costco… on a Saturday… three days before Xmas… anyone need anything? 😆
Dec 21, 2024: You should literally follow me if you want to make sure to get the slowest line at the Costco gas bar.
Dec 20, 2024: Don’t let this darkness fool you All lights turned off can be turned on
Dec 20, 2024: I don’t know why, but as much as I’d love a new Bond film, I’m kind of happy to see Amazon eat shit on their $6.5 billion purchase of MGM and the Bond …
Dec 19, 2024: “Substack Is At It Again”. Please don’t use Substack. There’s so many better options that not only aren’t Nazi-loving, but also much more fun to use …
Dec 19, 2024: Every time I have to go to Delisle, Saskatchewan for my kid’s hockey game, there’s blizzard conditions. IPSO facto, if they’d stop scheduling my kid’s …
Dec 18, 2024: I did a TikTok Live for ~3 minutes and “earned” $0.01 so… I guess I can finally shut down the podcast editing business and focus on TikTok in 2025.
Dec 18, 2024: Accidentally clicked on a client’s audio recording file on macOS, and now it’s opening Apple Music…
Dec 18, 2024: Acorn’s “Data Merge” feature sounds like the perfect reason to own the image editing app for Mac, even if I never touch it for anything else.
Dec 18, 2024: A reminder that if you ignored it when it went around the first time, the director’s cut of Coldplay’s All My Love video with Dick Van Dyke is a …
Dec 18, 2024: Currently reading: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 📚 Finally getting around to his most popular book - the movie based on the book is on Netflix …
Dec 18, 2024: Nice musical discovery via TikTok: Amble is an Irish acoustic trio. They have a couple of EPs out, no official album yet. But great music to put on …
Dec 17, 2024: Before > After of Neville Dogbottom’s first adventures in getting his hairdid.
Dec 17, 2024: You can have a Crumbl cookie at home anytime you want - just be willing to add a pound of butter to any cookie recipe you currently make. 😋 (My butt …
Dec 17, 2024: If you’re self employed or a small business owner, how transparent are you about your finances? People IRL sometimes ask me “how’s business going?” …
Dec 16, 2024: Nice.
Dec 16, 2024: I have to imagine this will help sell a bunch of AirTags which is effectively Apple + the consumer doing the work of the airlines in finding luggage.
Dec 14, 2024: The Grinch, 2018 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday December 14, 2024.
Dec 14, 2024: Excited to show Neville Dogbottom all our fav Xmas movies for the first time. Tonight: The Grinch (2018)
Dec 14, 2024: 🍻
Dec 13, 2024: A Bad Moms Christmas, 2017 - ★★½ So bad. So good.
Dec 13, 2024: I upgraded from AirPods Pro (2nd gen) to AirPods 4 w/active noise cancellation only because my AirPods Pro started spitting static constantly. AMA!
Dec 13, 2024: TIL today: Ecamm Live (macOS live stream / recording app) can support 10 camera feeds?
Dec 13, 2024: Is Apple’s Remote Desktop their oldest app in the App Store that continues to get updates? I bought (?) it a couple lifetimes ago when I worked at the …
Dec 12, 2024: Just declaring that these vocal tracks bear no resemblance to any person, living or dead, in case any legal nutters go after one of my clients. 😆
Dec 11, 2024: Still kind of surprised that Apple is fine with this for negative temperatures on their nightstand mode for iPhone.
Dec 11, 2024: My first attempt with Apple Intelligence + making a digital selfie. Not sure about the headphone placement, what kind of podcast is all code, and why …
Dec 11, 2024: The Vinyl Cafe lives on in another generation thanks to my youngest’s teacher. 😊
Dec 11, 2024: Happy Apple Intelligence Day to Canada (and 5 other countries outside the US).
Dec 11, 2024: Riverside, a tool I and many other podcasters use to record remote conversations, just raised another $30 million dollars but what stood out to me was …
Dec 11, 2024: At first it was difficult to watch Matt Mullenweg burn through decades of goodwill so quickly, now I just want the fire to go out and the WordPress …
Dec 11, 2024: Bad Sisters season 2 is so good. Currently pricing out an oceanfront property in Malahide or Wicklow. I’m sure they’re not that expensive once I …
Dec 10, 2024: Currently reading: Foster by Claire Keegan 📚
Dec 10, 2024: Maybe you’ve heard of “software as a service” or SAAS businesses. While editing a client’s podcast I heard the term “cybercrime as a service” …
Dec 10, 2024: Noah Kahan’s Homesick is the winter anthem for Saskatoon, 2024: “The weather ain’t been bad, If you’re into masochistic bullshit”
Dec 9, 2024: Die Hard is a sequel to Love Actually where Emma Thompson hired Bruce Willis to hunt down Alan Rickman but make it look like Rickman is part of a …
Dec 9, 2024: Somebody is upset that I won’t let him bark at people who have the audacity to go out their own front doors and get in and out of their vehicles.
Dec 9, 2024: Growing Sideways by Noah Kahan is absolutely a Christmas song: “And I divvied up my anger into thirty separate parts Keep the bad shit in my liver and …
Dec 8, 2024: Finished reading: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman 📚
Dec 7, 2024: Unlike Hozier, I like a little ice with my whiskey.
Dec 7, 2024: Just as our shovelling muscles were starting to relax, here comes more snow Saskatoon.
Dec 7, 2024: Very rude of the washing machine to beep at me just as I finally sat down.
Dec 7, 2024: While searching for Xmas gift ideas, I stumbled on this Reddit thread with the best reviews of the Nintendo Switch Pro controller.
Dec 6, 2024: Anker speaker recall.
Dec 6, 2024: It should be illegal to schedule a U15 hockey practice for 9:15pm on a Friday night. Who is personally out to get me at Saskatoon Minor Hockey? 😆
Dec 5, 2024: It’s wild talking to my dad about how he got clients for financial services over his career vs how I get clients for my podcast editing business. “I …
Dec 5, 2024: It’s so funny how a dog is basically speed running having a kid. Neville Dogbottom is ~5 months but now going through the puberty stage where his bark …
Dec 5, 2024: This is my must hear during the holidays song. The Edge’s jingle jangley outro makes me feel like I’m heading to the shops in Dublin for Xmas shopping …
Dec 4, 2024: Why yes, I am a 40 something white dude. What gave it away?
Dec 4, 2024: It’s Wednesday but somehow feels like both a Monday and a Friday. I’ve seen multiple people reference this feeling today - is it the sudden change in …
Dec 3, 2024: I see this kind of post as a Canadian and honestly figured it could be about the United States?
Dec 3, 2024: Hey freelancers / sole proprietors / small biz owners (aka me!) - this is your monthly reminder that as much as you might be stressed about doing …
Dec 3, 2024: Somebody is pouting because somebody wouldn’t stop nipping at guests here for a meeting so somebody is stuck listening to the conversation with me in …
Dec 2, 2024: Nice!
Dec 1, 2024: Shoutout to the Rosewood (? I can’t keep up with neighbourhood names) Leopold’s for the sweet Super Mario Xmas wrapping paper walls. I don’t know how …
Dec 1, 2024: Hey you know what would be fun after a day in a cold rink? Why not go to another game in a slightly less cold rink this afternoon? 🥶 (I complain but I …
Nov 30, 2024: Coolest green Zamboni ever?
Nov 30, 2024: Welcome to Hanley, Saskatchewan where it’s just above freezing while running the score clock. 🥶
Nov 29, 2024: Wicked, 2024 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday November 29, 2024.
Nov 29, 2024: “This movie is Wicked.” - me at Wicked.
Nov 29, 2024: With the amount of random, weird, or interesting recipes on TikTok, Pestle’s(iOS recipe app) ability to grab instructions from a video is kind of an …
Nov 29, 2024: When life hands you a broken mug, turn that frown upside down and use it for views. 😆
Nov 29, 2024: Revisiting “Planning my X-it” by Scalzi today.
Nov 28, 2024: I keep wondering why the internet is so much quieter today. And then I remember Americans are in their belated turkey (or non-meat alternative) comas, …
Nov 27, 2024: My son brought home some eggnog today, so I guess I can slide “exercise and loose some weight” into 2025’s to do list.
Nov 27, 2024: Just posted a heartbreaking (😜) video to my TikTok account for anyone who’s followed along with the corn mug saga. If you’re not on TT, the TLDW …
Nov 26, 2024: “Let’s get to eyeglasses’ level of stigma around mental health.” : Kudos to Brad Frost for sharing his journey to an ADHD diagnosis.
Nov 26, 2024: I would love it if iCloud shortcuts saved on the Finder sidebar would actually save and not disappear randomly. If only Apple owned the experience …
Nov 26, 2024: Shameless affiliate link for the only podcast hosting platform that I genuinely enjoy using and am delighted when a client is already on it: …
Nov 26, 2024: My guess is that (RED) is going to do some sort of bigger splash for the 20 year anniversary in 2026 and that’s why Apple is phasing out (RED) for …
Nov 26, 2024: Today has all the signs of being one of those “welp I did that one thing so now I should take a break” kind of day.
Nov 25, 2024: If you can’t great me with an uplifting, empowering message like this every day, I just can’t have you in my life.
Nov 25, 2024: So dogs can be like humans where they’re angsty and frustrated with something, but all they need is for you to go outside with them in -22C / -7F so …
Nov 24, 2024: Snow Day declared for tomorrow already. Kids are excited. My work from home brain is slightly less so. 😝
Nov 24, 2024: Shovelled a path through all the snow for Neville Dogbottom to go do his business. Now time for coffee and a bagel. I haven’t looked out at the front …
Nov 23, 2024: Shrinking on AppleTV+ might not be for everyone. But hearing Harrison Ford say “Hey kid….” followed by something wise or sarcastic is very therapeutic …
Nov 23, 2024: It’s much easier to put together the backyard rink before the snow falls, but then I wouldn’t be able to complain about how cold my hands are trying …
Nov 23, 2024: Happy “the dog ate someone’s freshly made egg breakfast sandwich off the table” to everyone who celebrates.
Nov 22, 2024: House goals - even if not everyone else in my house shares this goal. Maybe “area of house” goals is more accurate. 😆 (via The ShopTalk Show Discord.) …
Nov 22, 2024: I kind of love the way Americans on social media build up to their (obviously late) Thanksgiving celebrations. It’s a fun mixture of dread, annoyance, …
Nov 22, 2024: A working theory: We watch Knives Out in the fall, we watch Glass Onion in the summer. Rian Johnson needs to make the rest of the standalone sequels …
Nov 22, 2024: Did Discord reset notifications for anyone else recently? Or did they add new “Adam ❤️ your post!” notifications that weren’t there before? Suddenly …
Nov 21, 2024: I did a stupid walk on the dumb treadmill this morning for the first time since before getting sick… please clap for me or I might never do it again. …
Nov 20, 2024: Speaking of not writing regularly - I’m updating my personal newsletter description now that Elon has helped ween me off Twitter. I’ve got a month to …
Nov 20, 2024: So called thought leaders on social media become thought leaders by not crediting their sources: discuss.
Nov 20, 2024: I kind of love seeing a blog link in someone’s profile, clicking it, and finding their most recent post from years ago saying something like: “Should …
Nov 20, 2024: Apple’s most popular podcasts of 2024 in the U.S. feels like a pretty good sampling of what I assumed Americans listen to, leaning towards true crime, …
Nov 19, 2024: Shovelling 37 times is enoughh for today. It’s probably enough for the whole winter tbh. 😪
Nov 19, 2024: Elon attempting to buy Substack makes perfect sense. It’s a safe home for right wing nonsense (and worse), and regular folks use it as well without …
Nov 19, 2024: Important macOS / iOS update to run that fixes vulnerabilities.
Nov 19, 2024: Dog owners: do you wake up the dog because you need to get a second cup of coffee? Or suffer caffeine-less for your dog’s sake?
Nov 19, 2024: Further proof of Bluesky being included in the conversation: Transistor.fm allows you to pull a person’s profile from Bluesky now. Super handy feature …
Nov 19, 2024: Parks and Recreation: The Complete Series is on sale for $6.99 on the Canadian AppleTV store.
Nov 18, 2024: First time seeing real snow. Turns out he likes it.
Nov 18, 2024: Now 3 of us have learned the hard way that Neville Dogbottom is big enough to grab food off the counter if we leave it for too long: this morning was …
Nov 16, 2024: Selfie of a man somewhat annoyed he has to get cleaned up to leave the house for a niece’s bday. (No shade to the niece. She nice. Nice niece.)
Nov 16, 2024: Currently reading: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman 📚
Nov 16, 2024: If you’re not sure what to make / order to eat today, just a reminder that it’s scone Saturday. Every Saturday. You’re welcome.
Nov 16, 2024: Neville Dogbottom would like you to know that even though he’s been a good boy, he still didn’t get to eat toast with jam off the plate like the …
Nov 15, 2024: Deadpool & Wolverine, 2024 - ★★★★½ Watched on Friday November 15, 2024.
Nov 15, 2024: Get yourself a dog who’s happy to wait for you to go to the bathroom. 😆 A puppy with fomo is like toddler life all over again.
Nov 15, 2024: Some other “Chris” signed us up for emails from Knox County Schools in Knoxville, TN and while I’m a bit annoyed at getting the email, I’m more …
Nov 15, 2024: I feel like pooping on other social networks that people find community on, for whatever reason, is kind of an ick. Other than pooping on Twitter …
Nov 15, 2024: “That best user experience would be telling you very prominently when content you’re searching for is available on one of the services you subscribe …
Nov 14, 2024: Oh crap it’s all over. That was it. #nhljets 😝 (at least I can now start watching the games again)
Nov 14, 2024: It feels like one of those fall days where we should have a fire on the deck and hang out for a while… but it’s November 14th? My brain doesn’t …
Nov 14, 2024: If you’re looking for a slightly nerdier way to delete tweets, this script has been working for folks.
Nov 14, 2024: Congrats to Cynthia Block on becoming Saskatoon’s next mayor last night, and (I believe?) our first female mayor. 🎉 #yxe
Nov 13, 2024: Voted AF today (municipal version)
Nov 13, 2024: My AirPods Pro started crackling recently, but they’re out of warranty. I wish these customers in California much success in their lawsuit with Apple. …
Nov 12, 2024: Finished reading: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill 📚
Nov 12, 2024: wtf todays Strands is anger inducing.
Nov 12, 2024: We’ve reached the point in dog ownership where we know our house probably has a dog “smell”, but we don’t even notice it. Not that we’d give up …
Nov 11, 2024: Yesterday was Neville Dogbottom’s first experience peeing in the snow. 😆 He liked the snow and wanted to stop and taste it everywhere in the yard. I …
Nov 11, 2024: It’s a shame there isn’t a poppy emoji yet?
Nov 9, 2024: Have the Winnipeg Jets clinched a playoff spot yet? Must be soon.
Nov 9, 2024: Stuck in a small town rink for the day but took a quick walk down by the tracks.
Nov 8, 2024: I know Apple has their reasons for making things thin, but would anyone have complained if the new Mac mini was an inch thicker but you could also …
Nov 8, 2024: I ended up using Tweetback to display my Twitter archive. Still sorting out if I put it on my website or not. I’m nerd / dev adjacent (I edit and …
Nov 8, 2024: I stopped Neville Dogbottom just as he was about to drop a massive load in our living room this morning, so I feel like I can probably just consider …
Nov 7, 2024: Anyone have a cool app / self hosted way of archiving my Twitter data export? I don’t care that much, but it would be nice just to throw it somewhere …
Nov 7, 2024: Hey. Drink some water. It’s actually kind of refreshing. You can go back to your coffee / alcohol laced smoothie / beer / etc. anytime. Just grab a …
Nov 7, 2024: So the Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada citing security concerns. Naturally political commentators on Tiktok report it as …
Nov 7, 2024: Thursday’s wtf vibe
Nov 6, 2024: Oh wait - it’s going to take all month to work. 😆
Nov 6, 2024: Downloaded an archive of my almost 30,000 tweets and am auto-deleting them using tweetdeleter.com. We’ll see how well it works. Then I’ll private my …
Nov 6, 2024: In 2016, Americans could maybe get a pass because they didn’t really know what he’d be like. But in 2024, 71,000,000+ said “Yep more of that please!” …
Nov 5, 2024: At least my Jets are getting a decisive victory so I can be slightly less anxious.
Nov 5, 2024: Gonna go be bad at Fortnite while I wait for the US to be done their sorting hat.
Nov 5, 2024: What’s everyone using for an HTML editor these days? I’m thinking it’s time I upgrade to something a little more modern.
Nov 4, 2024: “When Women Were Dragons”
Nov 4, 2024: Do any of my American friends need an emotional support Canadian to talk with? Thinking I could offer 30m time slots tomorrow for talking about …
Nov 2, 2024: Good luck to whomever has to read my writing on that hockey timesheet tonight. 😆 Luckily nobody is too worried about div C hockey games.
Nov 2, 2024: I came home from our Florida trip with a cough that’s finally going away after 2+ weeks. I haven’t exercised this whole time and it’s making me …
Nov 2, 2024: I spent a couple hours working on a redesign of my business website and let me tell you: building websites is awful. 😂 How has it gotten more …
Nov 1, 2024: Laziness in responding right away pays off again! 😆
Nov 1, 2024: Did you know Notion added Forms? I just found out. Help me test it out by responding to this very serious form I built in Notion
Nov 1, 2024: I hope Apple buying Pixelmator means we get Photos Pro or something? I really don’t want my $70 alternative to Photoshop going away anytime soon.
Nov 1, 2024: New post on my blog: After November 5th, Can’t We Go Back to Normal?
Oct 31, 2024: I can’t wait until next week at this time when we’ll never have to hear about US Elections again. 😆😴
Oct 31, 2024: This cover of “Stand By Me” by Stephen Wilson Jr. is worth playing once or twice. I’m a sucker for any sort of open guitar tuning + wailing.
Oct 31, 2024: Happy taco dog Halloween to all who celebrate!
Oct 31, 2024: Asking kids who their parents voted for before giving out candy is your civic duty. 😂
Oct 30, 2024: New on my blog: My thoughts on the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMacs announced this week by Apple
Oct 30, 2024: I had no idea any of this was coming, but very happy to have “powered by Ghost” instead of WordPress on my blog. 😆 Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is …
Oct 30, 2024: I’ve been nerd-sniped by @rachsmith into trying out Godspeed, a macOS / iOS / web based to do app in place of my current mix of Reminders, …
Oct 30, 2024: At least Neville’s putting all my podcasting gear to good use while I try to figure out if / what I should do for a podcast. 😆😴
Oct 30, 2024: I’m sure Apple will update the Mac Studio to an M4 or M5 sometime next year, but in the meantime I’d be hard pressed to recommend it over the Mac …
Oct 29, 2024: For anyone with Rogue Amoeba apps (Audio Hijack, Loopback, SoundSource), they’re advising that you update to MacOS 15.1 sooner to help fix a few audio …
Oct 29, 2024: How to survive online - thoughts from EposVox on 18 years on YouTube, 10 years full-time.
Oct 28, 2024: Voted! (Saskatchewan has a provincial election today, not to be confused with the US election down south… but same nut-job vs normalcy vibes to the …
Oct 28, 2024: Neville gets his first look at Ted Lasso. He likes what he smells.
Oct 28, 2024: I’m a sucker for the iMac as a home computer. Love the new updates and colors, but I wish they’d stop worrying about “thin” and focus on usability …
Oct 26, 2024: The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, 2024 - ★★★★★ Watched on Saturday October 26, 2024.
Oct 26, 2024: It took 2 months for the “not on the couch” rule to fall away. Neville has a face that wears you down. ☺️
Oct 25, 2024: A woman, blogging: this is a political act – Tracy Durnell
Oct 25, 2024: Inspired by a recent convo in the ShopTalk Show Discord, should you bleep / edit swears in your podcast? (TLDR: IMHO it doesn’t really matter as long …
Oct 25, 2024: 2024 seems to be the year some tech companies are “taking their podcast production in house”. It feels like the ying / yang of how these things go, …
Oct 25, 2024: I missed this in all the iOS 18 announcements: iOS 18.1: How to Record and Transcribe Phone Calls - MacRumors. Useful for those times you have to take …
Oct 24, 2024: My brain very much wants to go chasing after other people’s dreams because that seems like less commitment or heartbreak than figuring out what I …
Oct 24, 2024: If I didn’t already enjoy reading on my Kobo so much, I’d be very tempted to pick up the Astropad Bookcase for my iPhone.
Oct 23, 2024: When starting a new document, do you save and name the file right away, or wait until after you’ve lost everything and have to start over?
Oct 23, 2024: I hadn’t tried the Bluesky for iOS app in a while. It’s looking good and is really nice to use. Feels much more fluid and modern than even Twitter’s …
Oct 22, 2024: Thing I was reminded of last week: I wouldn’t survive a summer in Florida. Three days of 30C heat + humidity (and getting a cold) did me in. Or maybe …
Oct 22, 2024: So thankful that Disney World was blanketed in wifi so that my kid can send me requests like this. 😆
Oct 22, 2024: Between airports and our trip to Universal Studios / Disney World last week, I dreamt I was in a queue all night while trying to sleep in my own bed. …
Oct 21, 2024: Coco, 2017 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday October 21, 2024.
Oct 19, 2024: Finished reading: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 📚
Oct 11, 2024: This is your periodic reminder that if you’re on a Mac and you want to live stream, but OBS has frustrated you, check out Ecamm Live. Best app on the …
Oct 11, 2024: ““It’s going to be a glorious future,” Musk said, albeit not one that applies to families or groups of three or more.”" 🎯
Oct 11, 2024: It’s the time of year when the sound of the birds flying overhead on their journey south can be loud enough that I hear them with my headphones on …
Oct 11, 2024: If anyone needs an Apple SuperDrive, I’ve got one in my drawer in my office. I assume they’ll be collectable items now that they’re discontinued and …
Oct 10, 2024: Fun (and fun looking) resource site to learn HTML: HTML for People.
Oct 9, 2024: I feel bad for anyone who disagrees but is forced to stay at WordPress / Automattic for financial or other reasons. What a clown show Matt Mullenweg …
Oct 9, 2024: Who had Nintendo announcing a new alarm clockon their 2024 calendar?
Oct 9, 2024: I dig this list of useful Raycast extensions on MacStories. I know I could be using Raycast for a lot more - particularly if I paid for the pro …
Oct 8, 2024: I don’t often find myself agreeing with basically everything in a DHH post, but his post, Automattic is doing open source dirty, had me nodding along. …
Oct 8, 2024: In case you’re wondering about the 🐶, he can still fit inside his toy basket but I suspect he’ll be too big by Xmas.
Oct 8, 2024: RIP iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle. I think parents would love an iPad nano style device with a basic GPS tracking feature built in so kids could listen …
Oct 8, 2024: If you’re wanting to “smart” up your garage door opener without needing a whole new opener, this Refoss Smart Wi-Fi garage door opener is on sale. I …
Oct 7, 2024: 4 ✅ on the old to do list today. That’s a good Monday for this 🍋
Oct 7, 2024: Modern social media is like having a different coffee shop or restaurant you go to with 15 different people you’re close enough to that you’d meet. …
Oct 6, 2024: A Costco hot dog at 9:30am is a bold choice.
Oct 4, 2024: Pestle, Crouton, and Paprika are the main recipe apps I’m aware of for iOS / macOS. Anyone using something else these days they love? We’ve been a …
Oct 3, 2024: First time in my podcast editing career that someone was having contractions while recording the podcast. 🎉 (No word on whether they’ve had the baby …
Oct 3, 2024: Me for most of my life: “That’s rude, my parents didn’t offer to pay for the food I picked up for us.” Me when my kid offers to pick up McDs just now: …
Oct 2, 2024: Work from home protip: If you’re feeling annoyed and irritated at all the things, double check the time and ask yourself if you remembered to eat …
Oct 2, 2024: The way Matt Mullenweg appears to be burning down all of WordPress’ goodwill, it’s triggering the way I felt when Musk burnt down Twitter and wrote …
Oct 2, 2024: I’m thankful for ppl like Stephen Robles who shows all the fun stuff that can be done with iOS 18 that I know I’ll never get around to figuring out. 😊 …
Oct 1, 2024: What’s the word for when you text someone a question that has no urgency or time sensitivity to it, and they reply as if you’ve been watching your …
Oct 1, 2024: If the puppy keeps getting himself stuck under the chairs in my office, do I get rid of the chairs or the puppy? Asking for a puppy named Neville. 😆
Sep 27, 2024: They’re practically giving away…. something over on tiktok? 😝 5?!
Sep 27, 2024: Josh Collinsworth has a great take on the whole #WordPress / Matt Mullenweg / WP Engine mess… with a conclusion I 100% agree with. …
Sep 27, 2024: With Chartable, a podcast analytics app, being shut down by Spotify after they acquired it 2 years ago (who saw that coming??), Dan at Bumper has some …
Sep 27, 2024: Would you believe that 2 weeks in to puppy ownership, my kids are shocked that they have to help take care of said puppy? Who could have seen this …
Sep 26, 2024: WordPress Vs. WP Engine? It Doesn’t Matter. It’s Bad For The Internet. #WordPress shouldn’t be in the news this much.
Sep 26, 2024: I can’t wait to tell my kids when our family is post-economic. 🤡 #WordPress
Sep 26, 2024: I’m not really ready to process that it’s the 20th anniversary of #U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb release.
Sep 26, 2024: I should clarify that the #WordPress situation is bad in the big picture sense of the word.. but not like “nazi” big picture. More like “bad business …
Sep 26, 2024: One perk of having a puppy is that you get to use the phrase “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” a lot more.
Sep 25, 2024: Good lord what a way to poop on a huge part of the #WordPress ecoysystem. Matt Mullenweg’s truly gone off the deep end with this. No more WordPress …
Sep 25, 2024: New on my blog: The Contractor’s Dilemma: Coping When Clients Disappear I’m sure others have gone through similar experiences when working with …
Sep 25, 2024: Anyone want to help me test out the (beta) Descript recording studio? Join me now (for the next ~15m?) and chat web.descript.com/room/c8c9… (you’ll be …
Sep 25, 2024: Great recap of everything announced at TwitchCon 2024 if, like me, you’re curious about streaming but rarely have the guts to actually do it. 😆
Sep 25, 2024: High of 31C at the end of September is certainly a choice.
Sep 24, 2024: Turns out all it took was a venti iced shaken espresso at 2:30pm to fix me. (See you at 3am!)
Sep 24, 2024: I edited this episode for ShopTalk talking all about the fun and challenges of developing with #WordPress just last week and I, and I think …
Sep 24, 2024: Can’t anybody at #WordPress / #Automattic take away Matt Mullenweg’s internet for a week before he causes more damage to himself and the community? …
Sep 24, 2024: Finally our long nightmare of using QuickTake to record iPhone audio while recording video is over.
Sep 24, 2024: I spend far too much time checking out team communication apps for a person with a sole proprietorship business.
Sep 23, 2024: Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
Sep 23, 2024: Weekends are for napping on the deck after a hard day of trying to eat wood chips, barking at hammers, and biting anything and everything.
Sep 21, 2024: Shoutout to everyone on 256GB Mac hardware, Apple Watch Series 3, or an iPhone 12 or earlier attempting to update their software this weekend. 💪 You …
Sep 20, 2024: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004 - ★★★★½ Watched on Friday September 20, 2024.
Sep 20, 2024: Great password management advice from one of the people working on Apple’s Passwords app: Consider Slowing Down When Switching Password Managers
Sep 20, 2024: I hope he always stays small enough to be able to sleep on this. (He won’t.)
Sep 20, 2024: Nintendo is active on Bluesky. 🎉 That’s enough validation for me. 😜
Sep 19, 2024: I’m sure it’s just a funny coincidence that the week we brought home a puppy, our neighbours put their house up for sale. 😆
Sep 19, 2024: New assistant is working out great. Here he is helping with adjusting the mic stand to make sure it falls over.
Sep 18, 2024: macOS Sequoia was worth the upgrade just for being able to use the annoying PC Express grocery app on my computer instead of tapping on my iPhone. 😆
Sep 18, 2024: I wasn’t prepared to see the cast of Slow Horses look so fancy and well dressed. I know it’s a fictional series, but the England they inhabit feels so …
Sep 18, 2024: My brain when I’m busy: “I’d love if work slowed down a bit then I could try some of the ideas I have.” My brain when work slows down: “Oh crap. This …
Sep 17, 2024: How many different ways can you say “What could possibly go wrong?” when writing about Trump’s Cryptocurrency scam? 😆
Sep 17, 2024: Alright could everyone using my specific set of Apple hardware and software for my type of work report in on how well updating to macOS Sequoia has …
Sep 17, 2024: Why didn’t anybody warn me about how exhausting a puppy can be? (they did)
Sep 16, 2024: I appreciate these kinds of “here’s what you could try with your fresh upgrade to iOS 18” posts because the actual install of a new iOS is pretty …
Sep 16, 2024: Apparently some USA conspiracy nutters are freaking out because of random words being displayed on The Sphere in Vegas. Which is just part of a promo …
Sep 15, 2024: Meet Neville. 🐶 (Neville Dogbottom if you’re fancy.)
Sep 14, 2024: Goodnight (aka see you in a couple hours to pee)
Sep 14, 2024: The newest member of our family is here for the boops and kisses and 3am pee breaks.
Sep 13, 2024: In case you need a supper plan this weekend, these sheet pan quesadillas work great for our family of 5 with some leftovers for the next day’s lunch …
Sep 13, 2024: Happy international day where rich nerds complain about how long it takes to order an iPhone while sitting on their couch using an iPhone.
Sep 12, 2024: The Pre-Puppy Episode This is the episode before a new puppy arrives in our home. Wish us luck. Transcript
Sep 12, 2024: I don’t really care if you don’t like his stick song because someone in your life overplayed it, but if you can’t get behind Noah Kahan’s “The View …
Sep 11, 2024: Oh dang that’s good. (in case it’s not clear, they just embedded the entire debate video in the tweet)
Sep 11, 2024: A theory that isn’t 100% true or accurate, but feels truthy sometimes: Software developers would rather spend a year building an AI bot to help them …
Sep 10, 2024: I’m struggling to come up with a sane, healthy reason you’d want to use something like this. It feels like it was made by creeps for creeps. Like …
Sep 9, 2024: Tech podcast editing milestone of sorts: my first time editing a podcast with DHH on it.
Sep 9, 2024: Do you think Apple has a ten year anniversary moment during their iPhone keynote for the U2 + Songs of Innocence album?
Sep 8, 2024: Currently reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
Sep 8, 2024: If you’re not out getting a slurpee this weekend in Saskatchewan, I don’t know if we can be friends.
Sep 7, 2024: Neal Brennan: Blocks, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday September 6, 2024.
Sep 7, 2024: Neal Brennan: Crazy Good, 2024 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday September 7, 2024.
Sep 6, 2024: Sorry but Apple should absolutely be the ones who ate shit over the free U2 album in iTunes, not U2. Apple is the one on the tech side who should have …
Sep 6, 2024: I’m not really complaining about a 30C weekend in September. I’m just confused.🤔
Sep 4, 2024: Apple nerds don’t let their friends buy new iPhones a week before an Apple iPhone event.
Sep 4, 2024: I’m making a variation of a sheet pan quesadilla for supper tonight and I’m very excited to eat it later. That’s all. Send post.
Sep 4, 2024: A trailer for A Minecraft Movie is out and can say whatever you want about storyline or casting, at least it looks beautiful and Minecraft-y which …
Sep 4, 2024: I don’t know what Snapchat could do to lose the stranglehold it has on teens, but throwing ads in the inbox and Snap Map won’t even bother teens. My …
Sep 3, 2024: How much do I avoid / hate pricing and estimating my work? I send one pricing estimate to a possible client and my brain says “Yep. That’ll do. Works …
Sep 3, 2024: Slow Horses season 4 is out tomorrow on AppleTV+ which gives you plenty of time to catch up the first 3 seasons because they’re excellent and you’ll …
Sep 2, 2024: Death on the Nile, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Monday September 2, 2024.
Aug 30, 2024: Big Hero 6, 2014 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday August 30, 2024.
Aug 30, 2024: The joy of hearing an artist get to sing their songs on the largest stage they grew up next to with their family and friends… and 38,000 neighbors …
Aug 30, 2024: Glad to see Only Murders in the Building back for season 4. We watched ep1 last night and it feels like they haven’t missed a beat from past seasons, …
Aug 29, 2024: School hasn’t actually started here and I’m already buried under Edsby emails.
Aug 29, 2024: I love my new desk riser a lot. I’m just annoyed at myself that I waited so long to get one.
Aug 29, 2024: If Apple announces new Apple TV hardware this fall, then I think Nick and I are obligated to record a new episode of 25c. 😆
Aug 28, 2024: New blog post: Micro.Blog Podcasting + OP3 Stats
Aug 28, 2024: 😮💨 “I would never get a puppy again.” 🥲 “You will question everything you know about yourself and your life.” 💗 “The bond that comes with a puppy …
Aug 28, 2024: There Isn’t A Void! You Can Subscribe By The Way. Turns out you’re out there. I’m honestly overwhelmed at the number of replies saying they listened. You can subscribe like a traditional podcast in …
Aug 28, 2024: Kelce brothers apparently signed a $100 million dollar, 3 year deal with Amazon’s Wondery for their podcast, New Heights. Which is similar to what …
Aug 27, 2024: Am I Figuratively Or Literally Shouting Into The Void? Just curious, who’s out there and actually listening. I’m not looking for vanity numbers, or just some assurance that there’s actual humans out there. …
Aug 26, 2024: If Snapchat is finally going native on the iPad, is Instagram going to follow soon?
Aug 23, 2024: Remakes of The Crow have a tough hill to climb. The Crow (1994) was like a beautiful grunge / goth music video that arrived at a perfect time when …
Aug 23, 2024: You can tell things are going really well over at Facebook by the fact that they seem to be the primary sponsor of BeReal.
Aug 23, 2024: Sorry to anyone at the McDonald’s drive thru who had to witness my ugly cry this morning. Apparently it’s been a while since I’ve done my “Bad / 40 / …
Aug 22, 2024: Lesson learned and mistake won’t be made again. If Brad Frost is putting on a concert for his 40th birthday party, you should definitely try and go. I …
Aug 22, 2024: I’m annoyed at how badly Apple has (again) messed up gaming on one of their platforms. They frequently use gaming as a vehicle to promote their …
Aug 21, 2024: According to Apple Photos, this is a banded garden spider. 🤷♂️ Whatever it is, it was enough to keep my youngest from going and picking tomatoes for …
Aug 20, 2024: That’ll fix me.
Aug 20, 2024: Morning me makes a lot of plans that afternoon me says I can leave for tomorrow me.
Aug 20, 2024: I feel like Voicenotes didn’t need to come at me so viciously in the title like that. 😆
Aug 19, 2024: Why is seeing the full body of people you only know online like seeing your teacher at the grocery store? 😆 “You exist outside of my computer screen? …
Aug 19, 2024: If you’re not recording your podcast like this, I don’t know what to tell you.
Aug 18, 2024: It’s just a blog. But blogging is the shit.
Aug 17, 2024: I got lucky. Wordle 1,155 2/6 ⬛🟦🟧🟦⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Aug 16, 2024: Super thankful that the Costco queso dip has all the nutritional requirements for a healthy meal. Just add chips and you’re good! 😋
Aug 16, 2024: I realize this is very “old man shakes fists at new tech”, but I really dislike how every platform has to also be a video platform. I can’t leave a …
Aug 15, 2024: For the second night in a row, I got Worldle in two. Should I go but a lottery ticket? Wordle 1,153 2/6 🟧🟦🟧⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Aug 15, 2024: Oooh! Logan’s back with his awesome Music for Makers site. Such a great resource for songs for podcasts (and more). If you can afford to or make money …
Aug 14, 2024: Anyone made the transition from 1Password to Apple’s native Passwords app? How’d it go?
Aug 14, 2024: The problem with articles that state “Apple is moving forward with its project to develop a tabletop robotic device…” but then bury that it’s a rumor …
Aug 14, 2024: 4 years ago my favorite tv series came out and almost nobody watched it for months. I didn’t try it until September, 2020. Then suddenly everyone was …
Aug 14, 2024: Turns out I shouldn’t have been ignoring those “we need you to update your banking information for some affiliate payouts” emails—$160USD is like …
Aug 13, 2024: Tally from supper: two umbrellas broken, three fingers with a hot dog stick sized burn mark, and 9 hot dogs consumed. All things considered I’d call …
Aug 13, 2024: I agree with Gruber: Patreon should call Apple’s bluff.
Aug 13, 2024: I know for a fact that you can have a fun, engaging public persona AND be a kind person running a business. I’ve experienced kindness so often with …
Aug 11, 2024: Currently reading: The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 📚
Aug 10, 2024: The Most Important Thing To Know About Your Podcast From Tom Webster’s new book, “The Audience is Listening.” Transcript
Aug 9, 2024: I bet the first person to try opening a watermelon was super pumped to realize they weren’t just good for holding things down in the wind.
Aug 9, 2024: Yesterday I saw a hot air balloon up close as it floated by on the river in our city. It felt really close and low, but nobody on the balloon seemed …
Aug 9, 2024: “Did you unsubscribe by accident? Click here to resubscribe!” In the history of the world, how many people have ever unsubscribed from an email …
Aug 9, 2024: Me thinking I’ll have a nice chill Friday catching up from a couple days off. CRA leaving a voicemail asking about my 2022 income tax return says the …
Aug 8, 2024: “This will fix me” - and it’s just me adding a fourth cheese to my pasta to make it extra fancy.
Aug 8, 2024: This permissions update to macOS Sequoia is borderline insane for anyone who uses screen recording / screenshot apps with any regularity. Tell me the …
Aug 7, 2024: Wordle was weird today. Wordle 1,145 6/6 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛ 🟧🟧⬛⬛⬛ 🟧🟧⬛⬛⬛ 🟧🟧⬛⬛🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Aug 6, 2024: Descendants: The Rise of Red, 2024 - ★★ Watched on Tuesday August 6, 2024.
Aug 6, 2024: Hanging on to the Saskatchewan long weekend a little longer….
Jul 31, 2024: Today’s Wordle was stupid. 😂 😤 Wordle 1,138 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟧 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟧 ⬛🟦⬛⬛🟧 ⬛⬛🟧⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Jul 31, 2024: Tim Sweeney (Fortnite / Epic CEO guy) with the weirdest take on Apple’s Find My. It’s remarkably easy to turn it off on a device you own or have …
Jul 30, 2024: What does luck have to do with your career? (this is focused on tech, but I think it applies more universally)
Jul 30, 2024: I finally sorted out the artwork bug and got my micro.blog podcast (micro-cast?) set up at the popular places. Details on how to subscribe are here if …
Jul 29, 2024: Deadpool & Wolverine, 2024 - ★★★★½ Watched on Monday July 29, 2024.
Jul 29, 2024: Deadpool 2, 2018 - ★★★★ Sharknado joke is top tier.
Jul 29, 2024: Parenting tip: eat the leftover pizza for lunch before your kids remember it’s there. Saves fights over who gets the last pepperoni piece, and you get …
Jul 29, 2024: If Apple can’t make Apple TV+ content work without ads being inserted, I feel like just shut it down. Maybe they do need to say no to directors and …
Jul 28, 2024: Happy Sunday funday 🍻
Jul 27, 2024: My dad brought this android spyware IPTV box into the cabin and now I have to burn down the network. 😆
Jul 26, 2024: Turns out the issue with my Micro.blog mini podcast feed was, of course, the artwork. 🤦♂️ I should’ve known. (Wrong size / ratio for Apple.) So I …
Jul 25, 2024: This is the perfect tiktok. (That would’ve been even better on Vine RIP)
Jul 25, 2024: A Test Of My Microblog Podcasting System It’s been over a month and Apple podcast Connect still hasn’t approved this podcast to be viewed in Apple Podcasts so I’m testing out this episode to …
Jul 24, 2024: New post on my blog: Come for the random political mumblings, stay for the ladder match.
Jul 24, 2024: Just a reminder that if you’re going to “friend request” me on Discord, Xbox, iOS Game Centre, Friendster, Foursquare, Dribbble, Untappd, Letterboxd, …
Jul 23, 2024: I saw a tiktok where the person referenced an Epstein related person as a “PDF file”, presumably to get around the algorithm punishing them if they …
Jul 23, 2024: Fortnite requiring basically a full download of the game for an update is unnecessarily cruel when I have work to get done and can’t afford to wait …
Jul 23, 2024: In order to understand why evangelical Christians were so concerned about U2 in the 90s, you really need to look no further than this moment in their …
Jul 23, 2024: My biz site’s contact form is constantly spammed into non-usability and I keep missing people reaching out. It’s WordPress, with Akismet anti-spam …
Jul 22, 2024: One of my favourite benefits of working from home is being able to make a fried egg on toast for lunch if I feel like it.
Jul 21, 2024: Crowdstrike CEO: “I’ll pay a billion dollars for something crazy to happen in US Politics this weekend. I don’t care what it is, just make it big.”
Jul 21, 2024: I’m at Costco. Let me know if you want me to pickup some jumbo muffins we can stress eat while the world gives us daily BREAKING NEWS updates.
Jul 21, 2024: Aw dang I lost my 322 day reading streak on Readwise and now I don’t want to read anymore. 😢
Jul 19, 2024: Whenever I say I bought Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback software, people ask what I use it for. It’s a bit of an odd tool in the macOS toolkit, so I thought …
Jul 18, 2024: I tried a mini-rant on YouTube that I normally would’ve just thrown on TikTok without any editing. I’m not sure if I can commit to it regularly, but …
Jul 17, 2024: Pretty great deal on the Elgato Stream Deck + audio mixer at Amazon Canada if you’ve been looking to try a Stream Deck.
Jul 17, 2024: Well… that’s not how I usually grind coffee beans. 🤦
Jul 16, 2024: Longlegs, 2024 - ★★½ Watched on Tuesday July 16, 2024.
Jul 16, 2024: I don’t know what the right thing is exactly, but it feels odd that Tenacious D would shut everything down over a bad improv joke about a former …
Jul 16, 2024: New on mah buk blog: A Reflection on Chapter 3 of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
Jul 16, 2024: Even if you’re not a U2 fan, I really recommend Bono’s autobiography. He narrates the audiobook himself and it’s heartbreakingly beautiful and …
Jul 15, 2024: Finished reading: Number Go Up by Zeke Faux 📚 more people need to read this book and be outraged at the crypto nft bros.
Jul 15, 2024: The best part of the kids being at camp this week as I can pull out the Nutella and not have to share any of it.
Jul 15, 2024: Hit Man, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Sunday July 14, 2024.
Jul 14, 2024: I’m suddenly seeing a lot of Apple Vision Pro adverts everywhere. Is it coming to Canada soon or something? I still can’t justify buying one so …
Jul 14, 2024: I wish we could have a day or two each month where we all collectively agreed to post about things we enjoy, love, appreciate, or celebrate. No rage …
Jul 13, 2024: Grinding the coffee beans in the garage on a Saturday morning is how I show my kids I love them. Unless they were turds the night before. Then all …
Jul 12, 2024: As someone from the before times who was there when Steve Jobs brought iMovie down from the mountain tops for us mere mortals to be able to edit video …
Jul 12, 2024: Crazy storm last night that had a ton of lightning and rain, a few good cracks of thunder, and kept winding around for a couple hours so that no sleep …
Jul 11, 2024: I don’t want to know what’s happening down south to generate this as a “trend”. 🤦♂️
Jul 11, 2024: Dang it’s really nice to know I’ve been missed, even if it is by a random person on my YouTube channel. 💗
Jul 10, 2024: I haven’t published a YouTube video in such a long time, but I stumbled on a viewer question about Audio Hijack file recording length mismatch and …
Jul 10, 2024: Heyo I bloggo’d (that’s what we used to say back in the 2010’s. no need to look it up. i was there.) Apple Watch for Kids Campaign is Gross
Jul 9, 2024: Am I a bad parent because I think Roblox is the worst by almost every measure?
Jul 9, 2024: Oh cool. Another app being completely awful: NGL banned from hosting young teens in a groundbreaking settlement
Jul 9, 2024: I hate AI crap like this so much: A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff
Jul 9, 2024: I hate that my brain tried to tell me this beautiful sunset photo by Manuel Moreale was AI because of how good it looks.
Jul 9, 2024: It’s very hot out and I’m just posting to say that I’m enjoying how hot it is because usually I complain about how cold it is here. …
Jul 8, 2024: I know this is a pedantic things I just need to get over… but whenever I hear or (especially) read someone refer to their podcast or a podcast episode …
Jul 8, 2024: New on my blog: Setting Up Your Family on Steam
Jul 8, 2024: A reminder to turn off the sprinklers you may have forgotten about while arguing with strangers on the internet.
Jul 7, 2024: Who built the better slurpee with ice cream? L or R?
Jul 7, 2024: Looks like BeReal has turned on the ad faucet. Not sure this is the wisest choice of placement given my location and default language settings, but …
Jul 6, 2024: Ford v Ferrari, 2019 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday July 6, 2024.
Jul 6, 2024: It’s exhausting being the only parent* in the city who doesn’t hand their kids an Xbox, a brand new iPhone, a YouTube subscription, and unlimited …
Jul 6, 2024: Riddle of Fire is playing at The Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon and looks like a fun time.
Jul 5, 2024: I sometimes think one of the people on the podcast I’m editing are un-listening, over-talking jerks—when in actuality I moved their track ahead by …
Jul 5, 2024: Apparently “weeds” is a bad word on tiktok. What else do you use to describe stuff growing in your grass that you’re trying to get rid of? 😝
Jul 4, 2024: I got to put out the cushions on the deck and leave them out for a whole day. What is this? Where is the rain?? 😆 ☀️
Jul 4, 2024: Via @manton - the omg.lol folks are adding a micro podcasting feature called Spake. I love this kind of experimentation in audio and podcasting.
Jul 4, 2024: This is my impression of Christopher Walken. (See my full name is Christopher and I’m on a treadmill…. walking?)
Jul 3, 2024: I don’t know how Jordan Klepper does these interviews (TikTok link). Why can’t Republicans be done with Trump?
Jul 3, 2024: I genuinely don’t know if blocking AI bots from scraping my site(s) is a good thing or not. Would I have blocked Google 20 years ago? Even that isn’t …
Jul 3, 2024: My TikTok FYP showed me a dude unboxing and playing Police Quest and I instantly could smell the stock IBM PC jr keyboard and hear the fans spinning …
Jul 2, 2024: I just won first place in Dress to Impress (Roblox game) in a “Dungeons and Dragons” theme in case you’re wondering how my night is going.
Jul 2, 2024: If you’re wondering why both of your cream containers are curdling in your coffee, double check that you (me) didn’t leave vinegar in the kettle …
Jul 1, 2024: Why doesn’t sleeping from 12:30am to 9:30am work the same as sleeping from 10:30pm to 6:30am? Explain that without any science mumbo jumbo words …
Jun 29, 2024: Finished reading: Slash by Slash 📚I feel like trash if I have a few glasses of wine and a beer. I don’t know how this dude is still standing.
Jun 29, 2024: Me at home: “ugh I don’t want to even sit outside on the deck. Outdoors? Bleck” Me camping: “I’ll sit in this uncomfortable chair for hours reading a …
Jun 28, 2024: Turns out our tent trailer’s signal lights don’t work if the battery is dead even if it’s hooked up to my truck. New battery, lights work. I genuinely …
Jun 28, 2024: The “streaks” feature is everything that’s wrong with social media. It pumps up engagement numbers for marketing I’m sure, but there’s nothing …
Jun 27, 2024: Manor Lords is on sale during the Steam Sale for those who celebrate. (No I still haven’t picked up a gaming PC 🥺😆)
Jun 27, 2024: If I wanted this much rain, I would’ve moved to Ireland or even B.C. C’mon weather—give us enough of a window to pack up the trailer and set it up …
Jun 26, 2024: New on my blog: Voice Chat Moderation in Video Games
Jun 26, 2024: I dig this internal linking feature Ghost implemented where you can “@” mention any page, post, tag, or author on your blog without having to open up …
Jun 26, 2024: My 14yo shouldn’t have to do moderator work for Meta because other kids keep using the N word and other offensive language in Meta Quest games. He …
Jun 25, 2024: This sounds awful. Why would I pay someone to get me more meetings??
Jun 25, 2024: New on my blog: John Green on Taking a Break from the Internet
Jun 24, 2024: It’s going to be a crepe-y day.
Jun 23, 2024: Inside Out 2, 2024 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday June 23, 2024.
Jun 23, 2024: Currently reading: Slash by Slash 📚Would you be shocked to find out it’s full of misogyny and objectifying language? I know I am.
Jun 23, 2024: Tornado watch issued for Saskatoon and area weather.gc.ca
Jun 22, 2024: Air, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday June 22, 2024.
Jun 22, 2024: My brain can spin on whether something is YOLO or wasteful forever. Which feels wasteful since YOLO.
Jun 22, 2024: New on my blog: David Simon on AI
Jun 21, 2024: Alright I’m invested. I was ready to tune out hockey after my Jets bowed out in the first round. Now the Oilers better win game 7 after coming back …
Jun 21, 2024: New on my blog: U2 Inspired Evangelical Church Worship Music
Jun 21, 2024: It’s really weird to me that Final Cut Pro for iPad with a new iPad is needed to do multicam with iPhones or iPads, when I’ve got a Mac Studio on my …
Jun 21, 2024: Send help. I sat on the deck for breakfast & coffee and now I can’t get up.
Jun 21, 2024: Normalize breaking “streaks” that social media apps try to use to keep you coming back to their app. Snapchat, TikTok now, etc. It’s not the same as …
Jun 20, 2024: My ability to pick the wrong line at Costco Gas remains undefeated.
Jun 20, 2024: “Just edit your robots.txt file and AI Startups will respect that.” Turns out, surprising some people who learn nothing from the past, no they won’t.
Jun 20, 2024: New on my blog: Foo Fighters and HIV AIDS Denialism
Jun 20, 2024: I just came across ScummVM, an emulator for playing old computer games, and I don’t have time for this distraction right now. 😆
Jun 19, 2024: We’ve been watching the new Netflix series Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial and while I’ve known most of the story, it’s still so jarring to …
Jun 19, 2024: The Threads API is available to more developers — here’s hoping Micro.blog gets cross-posting ability sometime soon?
Jun 18, 2024: Pretty cool story of Canadian kid NickEh30 working at Fortnite streaming hard enough to get his own skin + emoji in the game.
Jun 18, 2024: At some point the WordPress world (and the web in general) is going to have to work through the very real accounts of Matt Mullenweg being a bully on …
Jun 18, 2024: I’m very excited to aspire to play all the cool looking games announced at this week’s Nintendo Direct but then never feel like I have the time to …
Jun 18, 2024: I have no idea why I have a “cancel my Snapchat subscription” as a reminder. I don’t have a Snapchat subscription. Now I’m playing the “what rhymes …
Jun 17, 2024: Parenting is wild. It goes from “I’ll never get sleep again. When will the poop diapers stop?!” to suddenly they have their own vehicle and don’t need …
Jun 16, 2024: Blessings to all the parents with children who are into VR games like Gorilla Tag. Never has being active looked and sounded so ridiculous. 😆
Jun 15, 2024: Of the two “For You” algorithm bots, the one on Threads shows me more interesting posts than Twitter does. Twitter is mostly rage farming, Threads is …
Jun 11, 2024: Finished reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚
Jun 11, 2024: I don’t care whether you dig Pomplamoose, but just know that what they’re putting out on TikTok (and elsewhere I’m sure) is the template for what many …
Jun 11, 2024: If you can’t get your “everything Apple announced at WWDC 2024” video in under 23.2 seconds, I’m not watching it.
Jun 10, 2024: Based on nothing more than the keynote video, I do feel like Apple Intelligence hits closer to the “why can’t AI make my day to day life easier …
Jun 10, 2024: Nice write up by @ultranurd@mastodon.social on the recent wholesome games announcements.
Jun 10, 2024: Me: i think I’ll check out the lyrics to this song and then go back to adding more songs to my queue. Apple Music: The hell you will. Good luck …
Jun 9, 2024: Being able to lock any app behind Face ID is pretty slick actually. I love VoiceNotes, but have started to wonder about security of private thoughts …
Jun 9, 2024: “I’m in the business of losing your interest And I turn a profit each time that we speak” Such a good lyric. Well done Noah Kahan.
Jun 6, 2024: I know everyone’s been waiting for it, but I finally published my WWDC 2024 wishlist, Vision Pro edition. If you don’t have a Vision Pro, you can’t …
Jun 6, 2024: Every parent thinking “Well at least my kid never used this parental control bug to get around our settings” — yes they did. 😆
Jun 6, 2024: Cillian Murphy to return for a new Peaky Blinders film on Netflix.
Jun 4, 2024: Quickly mowed the lawn before more rain hits this afternoon. Now I’m a sweaty mess and putting on headphones to edit podcasts isn’t a great …
Jun 4, 2024: New on my blog: Help me Pick Music to Go With My Voice
Jun 4, 2024: I hate trying to pick out music beds for my own podcast ideas. I love something and think it’s amazing on the first 10 listens, and then on the 11th I …
Jun 3, 2024: Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel on “how to podcast”, I generally send people to Transistor’s excellent How to Start a Podcast series they’ve …
Jun 3, 2024: New on the blog: Apple TV+ Needs a Button.
Jun 3, 2024: Somehow I missed that Apple TV+ has a Murderbot series in production, with Alexander Skarsgård set to star.
Jun 3, 2024: In an alternate universe, @ultranurd@tacobelllabs.net and I are still complaining about the lack of Apple TV updates on an episode of 25c.
Jun 2, 2024: A simpler phone screen time system would be if it would only unlock all the time suck apps once you completed the Wordle, Connections, or Quartiles. …
Jun 2, 2024: BlackBerry, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday June 1, 2024.
Jun 1, 2024: It feels like the notifications are tuned a little high in Quartiles on Apple News. My wife sat down and started after me and it notified me she had …
May 31, 2024: Oooh Pocket Casts (my podcast app of choice) added a browser extension so you can subscribe on the web and have it easily show up in your app later. …
May 31, 2024: It’s been a while since I’ve added a new podcast to Apple’s Podcasts Connect site manually. Is it normally a 2-3 day process? I’m just trying to get …
May 31, 2024: The USA is so bonkers. Trump’s donation website apparently crashed because of so many people trying to donate to him after he was convicted of 34 …
May 31, 2024: One Of The Reasons I Can’t Quit Twitter I’ve tried many times and it’s possible that I’ll be addicted for life. But for now, here’s a positive reason why I can’t quit Twitter. Transcript
May 30, 2024: Welcome To My Micro Podcast! Podcasting is now included in Micro.blogs $5/month or $50 a year plan so I thought I’d try it out. Hello world! Transcript
May 30, 2024: Forget Dolby Atmos surround bass booming, I need the best speaker for listening to poorly edited podcasts in the shower?
May 29, 2024: I started the day off by being frustrated at my kids for staring at phones instead of making their lunches and then spent an hour staring at my phone …
May 28, 2024: New on the blog: Lucy Rose Cover of U2’s With or Without You
May 28, 2024: Add another casualty to the Google chat RIP pile. Not that I ever used it but apparently I had it set up somewhere, somehow. 😆
May 27, 2024: Another year, another ring around the internet for the pride of 2000’s Saskatchewan marketing efforts: “Pork. The One You Love”.
May 27, 2024: I really just want to blog and podcast all my thoughts and feelings out into the internet but sadly I have to work? WTF is this?
May 26, 2024: Finished reading: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 📚Somehow I hadn’t read it back when it came out. Intense and better than I remember the movie being.
May 26, 2024: Thinking about how “preaching a sermon on a passage from the bible” vs “giving a 35 minute speech on a pet peeve I have” is often the same thing. 🤔
May 25, 2024: Big time mistake on a Saturday in the middle of the to do list: sitting down.
May 24, 2024: A Quiet Place, 2018 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday May 24, 2024.
May 24, 2024: It’s time for my annual gaming PC research drive where I try to sort out what all the numbers mean and end up not buying anything - 2024 edition …
May 24, 2024: No, this is not a Shoresy season 3 promo video. It’s a Canadian Heritage Minute commercial with the star of Shoresy.
May 24, 2024: Pixelmator Pro continues to be the best value for any image editor I’ve paid money for.
May 24, 2024: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, 2024 - ★★★★ Watched on Thursday May 23, 2024.
May 23, 2024: Time to reset the clock on days since I’ve been jump-scared by someone coming into my office while I’m editing a podcast: 0.
May 23, 2024: I try to leave the house as little as possible, but when I do I make sure to hit up a local coffee shop. (Citizen Cafe this time.)
May 23, 2024: Anyone had a real world comparison of the Sonos Beam vs Sonos Arc soundbars? If I can get away with just the Arc soundbar that might be worth it if …
May 23, 2024: You can tell how much self reflection someone has done by their attitude towards Bluey.
May 22, 2024: New (98% AI) blog post: How to Shift Votes Away from the Hold the Sask Party Has on Some Parts of Saskatchewan
May 22, 2024: Thanks to Justin Jackson for this sweet AI generated soundtrack to my business. I feel like I need to make a commercial now.
May 21, 2024: Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015 - ★★★★½ Watched on Tuesday May 21, 2024.
May 21, 2024: I’m rewatching “Mad Max: Fury Road” in preparation for seeing “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” on Thursday. I can’t believe it came out in 2015. 9 years ago …
May 21, 2024: Web apps: “We’ve got AI in all the things to help you be more creative and work more efficiently!” Me: “Can you automatically rename files you create …
May 21, 2024: The Fall Guy, 2024 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday May 19, 2024.
May 20, 2024: Today’s Quartiles (Apple News+ game) is stupid and I hate it and it’s definitely not me that’s the problem.
May 19, 2024: It’s a Vietnamese Iced coffee kind of day.
May 19, 2024: If this rumor is true about no new Mac Studio upgrades until 2025, then it will be one of the few times I bought Apple hardware at the perfect time …
May 19, 2024: I love the wide open prairie skies of Saskatchewan. I love the ability to think and process life stuff while driving across the prairies. 😀
May 18, 2024: Turns out it kinda does fix me to swap my office around. (Still evaluating the window behind me + glare on the monitor potential issue.) Before After …
May 18, 2024: Current “I want a gaming PC” temptations are Helldivers 2 and Manor Lords. Just need to wait it out. Breath. This too shall pass. 😝
May 17, 2024: Ooooh! Marie Poulin dropped a new meal planning Notion template. (Yes it’s ok to be as excited about this as a new album drop by your fav artist. …
May 15, 2024: I added Gandalf to this clip from last night’s Oilers / Canucks game and it’s going around hockey tiktok in a non-toxic way. It’s nice to just have a …
May 15, 2024: Even 1993 Pearl Jam knew to pick the bear instead of a man.
May 15, 2024: Aw I’m sad Arc went corporate. The animated heart was a nice little surprise. This bland update notification feels like work.
May 14, 2024: I’m thinking if I swap my office around so I’m facing the other way, that’ll fix everything that’s wrong with me.
May 14, 2024: I love how a 27yo songwriter from Vermont can write a song that somehow connects to emotions inside of me that I haven’t fully processed or worked …
May 13, 2024: Federico Viticci’s review of iPadOS is one of the few I’m willing to read since he’s actually tried to make iPad work in ways that most of us on the …
May 13, 2024: I don’t know of many bands that have a huge commercially successful first album that follow it up with an equally good second album like Pearl Jam did …
May 13, 2024: Squarespace being bought will almost certainly mean the end of whatever amount of “free-ish” ride podcasters have had on there. “…all seamlessly …
May 12, 2024: Happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate.
May 10, 2024: Sonos can say it was courageous to roll out an app update all they want. All I know is that I was about to order one of their portable speakers, and …
May 10, 2024: Apple not including the stickers in the new iPad boxes is more upsetting than that commercial.
May 10, 2024: I just want to do a little podcast where we talk about neat things that we like and maybe get to rant a little every so often and have everyone on who …
May 9, 2024: Me: Ok cool. Income taxes paid and sorted. Summer plans planned. There’s a few dollars left, maybe buy something fun? My house: Starts shedding …
May 9, 2024: Making emptying the dishwasher out more epic by playing this Best of Star Wars playlist on Apple Music.
May 8, 2024: Libraries are the best. I just found out you can borrow day passes from the Saskatoon Library for parks and other attractions in the city.
May 8, 2024: I learned a new phrase today “information asymmetry” - more on my blog
May 7, 2024: New on my blog: Using Gemini to Analyze a Conversation
May 6, 2024: 5 years ago: Eww don’t just record your TV and share that you boomer! Today: Here’s 45 clips from the Tom Brady roast I recorded while moving around …
May 6, 2024: I keep having ideas for a podcast I want to do, but then realize what I actually want is free therapy by using my guest’s advice to help fix me. 😆
May 5, 2024: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2016 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday May 4, 2024.
May 5, 2024: Jodi Enns on leadership and accountability 🎯 www.jodienns.com/writing/t…
May 4, 2024: Saturday job board. We’re halfway there. 😆 🥱
May 3, 2024: I appreciate Dan Mall’s transparency and vulnerability in trying to navigate midlife crisis and adapting his business in the process.
May 3, 2024: One more for Transformers Friday: Optimus Prime and Darth Vader Sing The Sound of Silence
May 3, 2024: Alright Google. You’ve finally pushed me over to pay $15/month instead of $8/month because of .09GB. 😆😪
May 3, 2024: New on my blog: What 3 services you should use to publish and share content on the web with a focus on ease of use and just doing the thing you set …
May 3, 2024: “The perfect gift for Mother’s Day” and it’s just all their regular products. 😆
May 3, 2024: Cheers to anyone else doing the “your bank connection has been lost, reconnect with Plaid” routine every three days. I’m thinking it’ll be quicker …
May 2, 2024: The current social media diet of 1/4 horrors of the world, 1/4 business marketing toots, 1/4 silly memes, and 1/4 cool friends sharing fun stuff isn’t …
May 1, 2024: Exploring invoicing apps every few months and I always end up back where I started not because it’s the best, but because the devil I know is safer …
May 1, 2024: If TikTok is banned, where will the people who mimic an animal’s movements as a dance routine go?
May 1, 2024: American lawmakers continue to look stupid in the way they’re attempting to ban TikTok: The Secret Push That Could Ban TikTok. Go after data …
Apr 30, 2024: Filing and paying my income taxes at 4:30pm on April 30th like the well organized human being that I am.
Apr 30, 2024: Ok no more Tr🍊mp blog posts after this one, I swear: Time on What If Trump Wins.
Apr 29, 2024: I feel like Ghost’s default setting of sending an email for every new post is too much. So I think for now I’ll turn off the newsletter functionality …
Apr 29, 2024: New post on the ‘ole blogging machine: The Daily on a Potential Trump 2.0
Apr 29, 2024: I’ve never heard the term “paper microwave” to describe a printer before, but thanks to TikTok I now will be using that term exclusively.
Apr 28, 2024: End of an era: we sold off the trampoline we’ve owned for almost 10 years. There will be a giant circle shaped hole in the backyard this year. One …
Apr 28, 2024: Having kids who make you good breakfast (not in bed) is pretty nice when it happens.
Apr 27, 2024: I’ve got an iPhone 13 Pro and have no need or reason to upgrade except for the way I have to jiggle the cable to make a connection to charge it.
Apr 27, 2024: Anatomy of a Fall, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday April 26, 2024.
Apr 26, 2024: New on my blog: The Little Mermaid at Persephone Theatre
Apr 26, 2024: STAY AWAY FROM MY CO-HOST! Perfect video. No notes.
Apr 26, 2024: Would I get more done if I deleted TikTok and Instagram and Threads and Twitter and Mastodon from my life? Yes. Thanks for coming to my Tedtalk.
Apr 25, 2024: Tech bloggers cheering on the US TikTok ban have no clue the level of connection and community that people of all ages have made on the app. Not just …
Apr 25, 2024: New on my blog: Reading Newsletters Inside Feedbin
Apr 25, 2024: If you use iZotope RX 10 and have been wondering why it messes with your sample rate, you might need to update to the latest version.
Apr 25, 2024: I have to fight the “maybe if I buy something new, I’ll feel better” urge every morning. “Maybe a house of HomePod mini’s will cure me?” 😆
Apr 24, 2024: I’ve gotten the privilege to edit Marie Poulin & Ben Borowski’s podcast, Grief & Pizza. If you’re interested in Notion, work / home systems, or …
Apr 24, 2024: A bunch of web based recording apps for podcasters are going to end up pulling a Dropbox and add a whole bunch of features nobody wants. Podcasters …
Apr 24, 2024: I don’t think it’s healthy for me (or society in general) to know that people stop watching a video of me talking after 2 seconds. 😆 I should stick to …
Apr 23, 2024: I can’t tell for sure but I think I may have exported at the wrong resolution ratio?
Apr 22, 2024: I think I’d buy new Apple TV hardware if the only feature was listed as “it’s aware if you’re watching the game that’s tied in the third period so …
Apr 22, 2024: I think “For All Mankind” is a great series, but I hear almost no one talking about it. I kind of assume it’s got low ratings, but a new season plus a …
Apr 22, 2024: Blog posting: Thank a Nerd: 2011 iMac Edition
Apr 22, 2024: I remain undefeated in setting up ways to contact me about my podcast editing work, and then never checking in to see if anyone has contacted me. This …
Apr 21, 2024: My advice to someone in a reasonably serious relationship: buy the flowers (or whatever the equivalent is for your person) more often than not. Just …
Apr 20, 2024: “Unbreakable?” my kids say with skepticism.
Apr 20, 2024: We’re not getting a dog! (If you’re my kids, keep scrolling!) Ok now that they’re gone: if you have a dog, how did you decide on a breed or mix to …
Apr 20, 2024: TV audio question: I’d rather not have to deal with speakers everywhere + and expensive amp to get decent sound for movies or video games. We tried a …
Apr 20, 2024: Civil War, 2024 - ★★★ (contains spoilers) This review may contain spoilers. I respect that they didn’t want to draw a direct parallel to real life sides. But then I kind of spend the whole …
Apr 19, 2024: New blog post: My NHL 2024 Playoffs Bracket.
Apr 19, 2024: It’s the most wonderful time of the year. 🎉 I’m talking about the first two rounds of the NHL playoffs starting this weekend, naturally. What were you …
Apr 19, 2024: I grew up feeling like I’m not supposed to be “loud” about things I really enjoy. (that’s for a therapy session), so now I love when people get …
Apr 18, 2024: Hey! It me on the Transistor.fm blog,
Apr 18, 2024: New blog post that’s mainly for me 6 months from now when I forget I figured this out: Ghost Redirects Error on Upload.
Apr 17, 2024: What the heck was that Survivor? No spoilers but somehow both the best episode and worst at the same time?
Apr 17, 2024: New blog post: ✨ Stephen Robles with Apple TV Tips ✨
Apr 17, 2024: I haven’t seen it yet, but the entire internet has been telling me to watch Hundreds of Beavers, so it’s on my Letterboxd watch list now.
Apr 17, 2024: New blog post: Where Did Everyone Go?
Apr 17, 2024: I’m not sure which of these is the right option for importing an RSS feed from another blog into my micro.blog? Ideally it would just post to my …
Apr 17, 2024: It’s not just snowing out there today, it’s snowing. April 17th can suck a duck.
Apr 16, 2024: One of my biggest (only?) complaints about using Ghost is that the dashboard I see when I log in is a giant reminder that I have 2 official “members” …
Apr 16, 2024: Now that I’ve got my blog moved over and properly set up, I finally updated my uses page. I still keep getting the old version of the page when I look …
Apr 16, 2024: My dad charging his MacBook Pro in the most convenient way possible because Staples only had a 2ft USB C cable in stock they were selling for $50 …
Apr 15, 2024: In other words, Musk plans to profit off spam bots while they annoy and harass Twitter users.
Apr 15, 2024: I don’t know, I feel like this filter really nails my aesthetic. (That aesthetic being a fake filter with poorly chosen thumbnails trying to make a …
Apr 15, 2024: If you’re trying to use Ghost with Cloudflare DNS, make sure you set the Proxy status to DNS only.
Apr 11, 2024: I’m trying out Beeper, but it feels like, as with these “all your chat app in one app” apps, it has the worst UI of all of the apps combined.
Apr 10, 2024: Blogging on the new blog! 2024 is the Year of Video Podcasting - Maybe?
Apr 10, 2024: Cleaning always sends me deep into the emotional side of my brain. Doing just enough with my hands to so I can’t be distracted by a book or phone, and …
Apr 9, 2024: After 8+ months of bashing my head against a VS Code window, I somehow managed to move my blog over to Ghost. Hopefully the DNS cache has propagated …
Apr 8, 2024: I love having a portable set up so I can work from anywhere. 😜
Apr 6, 2024: I did a calculation just to hurt my brain: what years would my youngest’s “Mad Men” series be based on if they watched it at the same age as I did. It …
Apr 5, 2024: Deadpool, 2016 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday April 5, 2024.
Apr 5, 2024: After a week with kids at home all day, everyone is finally out of the house for the final couple hours today. What will I do with all this mental …
Apr 5, 2024: This little filter is the magic behind so many garbage (and even moderately ok) recordings that run through my Logic Pro set up.
Apr 4, 2024: Have you heard the audio “don’t ask me how I did it it was hard” on any platform yet?
Apr 4, 2024: This is me. Just getting my existence validated and verified by the internet. 👋
Apr 4, 2024: I’m loving working around inside Ghost CMS’ UI, but this dialogue box makes me want to throw my computer into the ocean. No context. No support doc …
Apr 4, 2024: I still don’t understand how people actually live in cities like Boston, New York, London, San Francisco, Sydney, Mexico City, etc. Those are …
Apr 4, 2024: Why is RSS not an option for importing content from one blog CMS to another? It has every detail you need for content of blog posts and yet it’s rare …
Apr 4, 2024: It’s not a good day to look at Twitter in Canada when this is trending. 😆🤦♂️
Apr 4, 2024: One fun aspect of podcast editing as a solo business is when you find out a client has moved on because you see a new episode pop up in their feed …
Apr 3, 2024: The new dynamic Keynote themes look like fun. I haven’t had a need to give a presentation in 5+ years, but it makes me want to put one together again. …
Apr 3, 2024: Nothing about the images people share of spatial personas in Apple Vision Pro makes me want to get one. I’m sure inside VR / AR it’s great and …
Apr 3, 2024: Altogether, scammers have stolen over $100 million via Twitter phishing alone in the first two months of 2024. Twitter + crypto is a match made in …
Apr 3, 2024: I waited too long to get into Slow Horses on Apple TV+. Such a good series.
Apr 2, 2024: This is what I’ll point to when people say “Discord is killing forums!” 🤦♂️
Apr 2, 2024: My annual spring make work project is to shovel snow off my front yard onto the sunny patches of my driveway in a futile attempt to ward off snow mold …
Apr 2, 2024: Does Ghost do any sort of URL redirecting? If I’m moving a blog over that has a /year/month/post-name structure, will Ghost do any magic to redirect …
Apr 2, 2024: A friend was over and casually commented on how “…as middle aged people commenting on the strike and support for teachers, it’s great to have your …
Mar 31, 2024: 7 Wonders is a fun game to play multiple times in an evening so you can remember how simple it is to play, yet difficult to win.
Mar 30, 2024: It’s 2024 outside but in a local church it’s the late 80’s with Satanic panic all over again over a dungeons and dragons game. 😱
Mar 29, 2024: Just enough snow fell last night to be depressingly beautiful outside—if this were November. ❄️
Mar 29, 2024: Somehow I got a bunch of Bluesky reply notifications via the Micro.blog iOS app last night. They don’t show up in the replies on the app itself. And I …
Mar 28, 2024: Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Thursday March 28, 2024.
Mar 28, 2024: Hearing this reminds me it might be time for a Ted Lasso rewatch.
Mar 28, 2024: Live streaming a podcast edit - come hang out and hold me accountable to actually working.
Mar 28, 2024: What year is it?
Mar 28, 2024: I love using a combo of Discord’s Threads feature + Notion to manage episodes of podcasts I work on for clients. I just wish all my clients loved …
Mar 28, 2024: I generally appreciate the fact that I don’t who’s following my account here, much like my blog, but every so often it’d be nice to know who’s in my …
Mar 27, 2024: Don’t despair if you’ve wrapped your identity around a dude on a podcast. Whether it’s a “hit piece” or not, I promise you there’s a hundred more …
Mar 27, 2024: I feel like that’s a fair reason to stop reading a book tbh
Mar 25, 2024: This is my podcasting tech stack:
Mar 23, 2024: When you unhook the water line from the washing machine to flood the rink, it’s very important that everyone in the house knows not to start a load of …
Mar 23, 2024: Last hockey tournament of the season. Last weekend of rink fries, cold butt, slightly awkward convos between games, and being mildly annoyed at people …
Mar 22, 2024: I’m both sides of this meme. Which is why I edit podcasts. 😆
Mar 21, 2024: Society of the Snow, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday March 21, 2024.
Mar 21, 2024: I have a podcast client who talks about how important it is to be professional, tweak your artwork, episode titles, etc. and then the next client I’m …
Mar 20, 2024: Supporting the Saskatchewan teachers the best way I know how: arguing with weirdos on my TikTok about the fact that teachers are human beings who …
Mar 20, 2024: Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Mar 20, 2024: Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Mar 20, 2024: Has anyone on micro blog hooked it up to being their main fediverse account (I think that’s the right term?) Right now I have a separate mastodon …
Mar 19, 2024: I made it to 4pm without putting my contacts in or changing out of my pj pants but I’m still getting ready for the day for the sole reason of getting …
Mar 19, 2024: Sounds like it might be a good idea to wait on upgrading your Mac to macOS Sonoma 14.4.
Mar 18, 2024: Trying to install Ruby on macOS Ventura so I can install Jekyll so I can try converting my 1,200 blog posts into a format that Ghost and / or …
Mar 18, 2024: I keep grabbing a portable battery to use as my iPhone in case you’re wondering how I’m doing on 4hrs of sleep. #nightbrain
Mar 15, 2024: The Holdovers, 2023 - ★★★★ Another Xmas classic I think.
Mar 15, 2024: Do you know how fun it is to try and buy tickets for an event for your kids who don’t have their own cell phone, and have them be able to go without …
Mar 15, 2024: Friday lukewarm take: If your podcast app features clips of Joe Rogan’s podcast in any promotional images, it’s an immediate red flag for me.
Mar 15, 2024: Coffee and sourdough toast with butter and jam is my… jam? 🤤
Mar 14, 2024: It’s just a blog Blogging is the shit. Amen.
Mar 14, 2024: I hope the crowd booing the pro AI video at SXSW somehow ends up in the AI training data pool and it eats itself.
Mar 14, 2024: Tell me you’re an old man who doesn’t get why TikTok is so popular among teens and adults, particular women, without telling me you’re an old man who …
Mar 13, 2024: Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Wednesday March 13, 2024.
Mar 13, 2024: My comment about expensive teeth (stupid ones6 got rejected - even after an appeal to TikTok. 😆
Mar 13, 2024: Messing around with the new blogroll feature on Micro.blog. I wish there was a way to automagically update it from Feedbin stars somehow? I like the …
Mar 13, 2024: How anyone can think Musk is some brilliant, intelligent business person is beyond me. Between him and Trump, it feels like the US is on extra crazy …
Mar 12, 2024: Getting to name the shared Dropbox folder is a power move. 😆 “YourBusinessName x MyBusinessName” > “MyBusinessName x YourBusinessName”
Mar 12, 2024: My pessimistic hot take: Video for podcasting is overhyped and by the end of 2024 (if not sooner) many shows will either be back to audio only, or …
Mar 12, 2024: The new blogrolls feature on Micro.blog could do a lot to help grow the community on the app.
Mar 12, 2024: Why can’t I ask Siri to alert me when the outside temperature goes above 0? It feels very basic and yet it’s somehow beyond what it’s capable of. I …
Mar 10, 2024: Rare free Sunday afternoon dilemma: nap or read?
Mar 10, 2024: A selfish suggestion: Micro.blog should treat it’s version of podcasting the same way it does the posts and make it easy to cross-post the episodes to …
Mar 10, 2024: Will the backyard rink (ODR as the kids call It) survive this week: Y/N?
Mar 9, 2024: Currently re-reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Mar 8, 2024: My dad once said to me “maybe you won’t get to actually do the thing, but you’ll get to work on the thing that someone else is doing” and I’ve gone …
Mar 8, 2024: I used to refresh Macrumors.com to find out about new Apple hardware or software. My kids watch a live stream of someone else refreshing the Fortnite …
Mar 7, 2024: I’m convinced this is the same guy at 29 and at 54 and nobody can tell me otherwise.
Mar 7, 2024: “…engage with digital people” WTF?! Is that seriously how tech startup bros are trying to rebrand “talking to an AI computer program”? 🤮
Mar 7, 2024: I don’t know why it sends me to frustrated dad town whenever my kids walk around with one earbud in listening to something, but here I am. 😪
Mar 5, 2024: Heads up: iOS 17.4 has a security fix in addition to features that make it worth upgrading sooner than later.
Mar 5, 2024: I’ve seen people on tiktok freaking out about this setting for Apple’s Journal app, but very little in the Apple blogs. If someone is in your contacts …
Mar 4, 2024: Dang I should buy a lottery ticket tonight. 😆 Connections Puzzle #267 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
Mar 4, 2024: Wordle 989 2/6 🟦⬛⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 I was on 🔥 today.
Mar 4, 2024: Snow / driving update in Saskatoon: If you can get out of your driveway, you should be fine in most of the city. Aside from the mountains of snow …
Mar 4, 2024: Interesting update to Ecamm Live 4.2, including a tie in with Scenery which looks like a Descript transcription / video editing competitor.
Mar 3, 2024: Played a bit of Breath of the Wild on my Twitch channel. Not sure how much interest there is in someone trying to finish a 7 year old game. 😆
Mar 3, 2024: So tired of shovelling. Thanked the neighbor with the snowblower by giving him a couple 🍻. And the snow is still falling. 😴
Mar 3, 2024: Just saw my first snowmobile driving down the middle of the street. Should be a fun day here in Saskatchewan.
Mar 3, 2024: 🎉to the neighborhood hero out snowblowing the sidewalk.
Mar 3, 2024: Finished reading: Like a Rolling Stone by Jann S. Wenner 📚
Mar 2, 2024: Interstellar, 2014 - ★★★★½ Watched on Saturday March 2, 2024.
Mar 1, 2024: Thanks to the impending snowpocalypse this weekend, the hockey tournament has been rescheduled. Dang. Now I have a free weekend. What to do? (Besides …
Mar 1, 2024: My Friday $0.02 inspired by Monday’s ShopTalk Show: Don’t ask for ratings or reviews for your podcast, ask people to link to your podcast from their …
Mar 1, 2024: Good lord this NextDoor man comparing his grandpa’s stolen tractor to what happened with Residential Schools in Canada to the First Nations people and …
Mar 1, 2024: Do you need a video version of your podcast on YouTube or do you just need to submit your podcast via RSS to YouTube so people can subscribe there?
Feb 29, 2024: I’ll ditto stamp everything Dave says here about how to get on a podcast and only add: please invest in a good mic so the smart things you have to …
Feb 29, 2024: Random brain fart: I wish I could go back and enjoy another weekend LAN part playing Warcraft 3 for the first time with friends.
Feb 28, 2024: I really hope the Ghost crew are crafting a “we’ll never sell your stuff to AI” message right now.
Feb 28, 2024: It’s oddly comforting how services like Micro.blog just have to keep existing as they are, and the competition will keep imploding around them. Like …
Feb 27, 2024: Not that I really wondered, but great to see that Micro.blog has no interest in owning or selling user data.
Feb 26, 2024: Next Goal Wins, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday February 26, 2024.
Feb 26, 2024: So many Wix sites using what I assume are their stock templates or themes still have the default FB / IG / Twitter social links on them. All that free …
Feb 26, 2024: Ok, maybe I’ll go buy a snowblower.
Feb 26, 2024: It’s as predictable as Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown: Apple isn’t in to video games for the long haul, they just want the PR for …
Feb 25, 2024: “How to make faceless content on TikTok and generate thousands of dollars a month” is the new side hustle I’m seeing a bunch of. 🤢
Feb 25, 2024: Mirror Mirror, 2012 - ★★ The things I do for my kids when they’re sick.
Feb 25, 2024: I had the opportunity to play bass again this week (I’m normally a guitar player), and it always amazes me how different a skill set it is from …
Feb 24, 2024: I’m checking out a “record a voicemail so I can respond to it on my podcast” app—send me your thoughts or AMA.
Feb 23, 2024: The ability to unlock my computer automatically with the Apple Watch is a more important invention than the Vision Pro.
Feb 23, 2024: I always dreamed I’d someday be the “muse” of a spam bot on TikTok trying to solicit funds from me.
Feb 23, 2024: Costco Canada heads up: a recall on eggs with potential salmonella issues. It feels like a huge waste for them to toss so many eggs (I assume?), but …
Feb 23, 2024: Manton on Bluesky’s federation - I’m just going to keep shouting that Micro.blog is the best way to own your stuff while still supporting all the …
Feb 22, 2024: I’m nowhere near able to consider buying a Vision Pro, but if I did have one, I’d be checking out Adam Lisagor’s new app called Television. Rather …
Feb 22, 2024: It’s so annoying how if I focus on the task at hand it goes so much quicker, I can get more done, and have more time to relax later. Right now I’m not …
Feb 21, 2024: I love the new simplified pricing flow micro.blog. I agree with Manton: one of the best deals on the web.
Feb 21, 2024: Fesshole on Mastodon (maybe elsewhere?) is a great follow for PostSecret fans of old.
Feb 20, 2024: I don’t know how it should be done, but it feels like a community of people celebrating new things but never acknowledging the bodies that fell or …
Feb 20, 2024: Coyote, fox, or dog?
Feb 20, 2024: Hey Mr. LinkedIn, If I write a post with AI, what’s the point of me actually being here anymore? Sincerely: humans.
Feb 18, 2024: The two monsters inside of me: One that craves time alone to just do whatever I feel like. One that’s angry with the world for leaving me alone and …
Feb 17, 2024: I lay down for a nap and suddenly I was in a JJ Abrams movie.
Feb 16, 2024: …but I’ve also been exploring Ghost and Matt’s post on his move to Ghost comes at a perfect time.
Feb 16, 2024: I’m swinging back around to the idea that I should just have my blog and main site on Micro.blog. I overthink it until I do nothing so we’ll see where …
Feb 15, 2024: I heard a Kansas City tiktoker I follow say this about the shooting there, and it resonates as strongly with what’s happening with the Sask Party’s …
Feb 14, 2024: When it comes to managing my own website, sometimes it’d be easier to not know what I sort of know, ya know? If my brain wasn’t filled with CSS HTML …
Feb 13, 2024: Argylle, 2024 - ★★½ Watched on Tuesday February 13, 2024.
Feb 13, 2024: With this comment on one of my tiktoks, I think I’ve passed the Wilford Brimley line.
Feb 13, 2024: I wasted an hour of my morning because I forgot that WordPress requires you to pay $400CAD/year for hosting if you want to install one of WordPress’ …
Feb 12, 2024: I’ve been hearing more about Fourthwall as a Patreon alternative, but only from random websites mentioning it. I haven’t seen any creators I follow …
Feb 12, 2024: I’m trying to like Stage Manager on macOS, but it’s not quite clicking for me. I can see how it’d be handy on an iPad, but my brain is so hard wired …
Feb 11, 2024: I have to take some recalled salad back to Costco which will probably end up costing me $350.
Feb 11, 2024: I feel a similar sentiment applies to podcasting as well. a.wholelottanothing.org/2024/02/0…
Feb 10, 2024: The Greatest Night in Pop, 2024 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday February 10, 2024.
Feb 10, 2024: My ideal work week has 80% podcast editing related activities, and 20% invoicing, estimating, and related business managing activities. Is there …
Feb 10, 2024: Hey #Saskatchewan peeps: what awful corporation have you signed your cell phone plan(s) over to these days and why?
Feb 10, 2024: These are the estimates Tiktok shows you for potential earnings from “going live” on tiktok. I assume this is what those cosplaying NPC accounts are …
Feb 9, 2024: Almost every online community I’m connected with has a fair share of people who dip in to say “look at my stuff” and then dip out just as quickly. I …
Feb 9, 2024: Oh wow. I am so surprised that Spotify is walking back a feature that a bunch of podcasters used and now their shows are gutted. Who could have seen …
Feb 8, 2024: Have you ever wanted to fix a video where the Minister of Education keeps looking down at the script instead of into the camera? Me neither. Either …
Feb 8, 2024: All I can hear when my kids are trying to convince me they shouldn’t go to school.
Feb 7, 2024: I want to live stream my work editing podcasts if for no other reason than it would help me focus on the task at hand rather than showing how …
Feb 7, 2024: Does anyone else’s Mac Studio drop USB connections over night? I wake it in the morning and often my external USB C SSD was disconnected, and my USB …
Feb 6, 2024: This is an awesome breakdown of how Marie Poulin started their podcast, and figured out where automation could help make it all flow even smoother.
Feb 6, 2024: Are you even really using Descript if you don’t have this notification popping up every couple of days?
Feb 6, 2024: Anyone out there ever used / using Gumball.fm for sponsoring a podcast? Or managing sponsorships for a podcast?
Feb 6, 2024: Alright. 14.3 seems like a good time to update.
Feb 5, 2024: I need a stud finder finder. Somehow after having the same stud finder for 20 years, it’s gone missing.
Feb 5, 2024: BeReal—but it’s a video call everyone joins at the same time for exactly 10 minutes.
Feb 5, 2024: If you’re putting off calling the dentist to book an appointment for you or a kid, just know that I finally made the call after delaying for a week …
Feb 5, 2024: Thanks to a new client, I’ve realized it takes me 3 tries to spell “interrupted” correctly.
Feb 4, 2024: It sure is neat how we’ve had warmer weather and then get a day floating just below zero where it’s melting but also freezing, and then tonight it …
Feb 3, 2024: The Creator, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday February 3, 2024.
Feb 3, 2024: While vacuuming I can’t help thinking about how much better this would be if I was wearing a Vision Pro and didn’t have to be alone with my thoughts …
Feb 2, 2024: I honestly love the evil villain move TikTok is pulling right now. Just as everyone is finally doing vertical video and admitting it’s the way, TikTok …
Feb 2, 2024: Thing that kind of breaks my brain: Someday somebody’s first, and maybe only, experience of a computer will be a Vision Pro (or something like that).
Feb 2, 2024: It’s a pretty ballsy move for Arc to say “skip the Google middleman with search engine ads” using a browser built on Google’s open source browser …
Feb 1, 2024: Just in time: Wordle 957 2/6 🟧⬛🟧⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 (I only share good scores. Assume I usually get it in 5 or more.)
Feb 1, 2024: What is happening? Farmer sausage and pierogis for supper (if I can find them in the freezer). And then instead of watching Mandy Patinkin be …
Feb 1, 2024: Growth hacking your podcast has it’s place I suppose, but I love the chill vibe of Dave’s I used to listen to your podcast post. “It’s important we …
Feb 1, 2024: Arc continues to be my main web browser, but I have to say that when I read through the new AI based features they keep adding, I’m not seeing a huge …
Jan 31, 2024: How Apple’s new Podcast Transcript feature works in the iOS 17.4 beta. It’s been amazing to watch podcast transcriptions be an afterthought to being a …
Jan 31, 2024: A reminder that a bunch of music is about to disappear from TikTok because corporations don’t like fun things and can’t agree on $$.
Jan 30, 2024: The two areas I miss most about working for someone else are: 1) Time off where someone covers your work for you, and 2) figuring out how much to …
Jan 30, 2024: I wish more companies would equip their employees who go out and appear on podcasts with good mics and a decent recording space in home or in office. …
Jan 30, 2024: Programming note: I’ve decided to wait on releasing my Vision Pro review until 5 years from now when I can justify paying for it.
Jan 30, 2024: Ooooh I was going to work up a Drafts process to do this, but now Micro.blog has a manual cross-posting to Threads tool while we wait for Threads to …
Jan 29, 2024: My first client hit 600 episodes this week and they spent it contemplating what the web will be like 12 years from now. Congrats Chris & Dave on 12 …
Jan 28, 2024: Cloudflare and other corporations deserve every bit of shaming for over hiring and then letting people go without admitting to their own mistakes.
Jan 27, 2024: I’ve been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work with clients in women’s health & fertility podcast space over the years, and I’m really …
Jan 26, 2024: The most I’ve ever laughed while using a computer is when Photo Booth first came out and we would pee our pants laughing at the stupid camera effects. …
Jan 26, 2024: Is there a way to ensure your podcast isn’t sucked up by an AI machine learning monster?
Jan 26, 2024: The worst / best part about editing a bunch of different podcasts is wanting to interject into the conversation with my own thoughts, whether arguing …
Jan 25, 2024: We could all learn something about focus and planning from Jason Kelce figuring out how to make sure his shirt came off at his brother’s football …
Jan 23, 2024: Did something change recently in how Google Drive calculates storage or file usage? I went from being under my 30GB plan to suddenly having 70GB in my …
Jan 22, 2024: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023 - ★★★★ Ultra imax this time.
Jan 22, 2024: What’s actually absurd is that you can totally have this done right now, you just have to pay a human to do it. Man… that’s so frustrating! People are …
Jan 19, 2024: Apple Tech Bloggers: “I can’t believe company X doesn’t have a native app for Vision Pro at launch?!?!” Dude chill out. It’s currently a USA only, …
Jan 18, 2024: The solo (maybe not just solo?) business owner circle of life: Oh no! Where are clients? Where are money? Oh no! Where is time? Where is rest? Return …
Jan 17, 2024: The “share sheet contact suggestions” thing has been really dumb lately. It shows me random people who’ve messaged me once on Instagram, but doesn’t …
Jan 17, 2024: I only catch their show via random tiktok clips, but why did this New Heights podcast segment send me into a emotional spiral of wondering what it’d …
Jan 16, 2024: It’s the dream of every podcaster around the world.
Jan 16, 2024: I support teachers out on the picket lines today across Saskatchewan. My three kids in elementary / high school have benefited from the hard work, …
Jan 15, 2024: Glass Onion, 2022 - ★★★★½ Watched on Monday January 15, 2024.
Jan 15, 2024: Never underestimate the value of having a broken contact form on your website for getting more stuff done. It could also be why you don’t have as many …
Jan 15, 2024: “Well those weak ass electric vehicles are never going to be able to pull a cattle trailer loaded up out of the yard.” How often do you see 95% of the …
Jan 14, 2024: Hockey parent 1: “How often do you use the phrase ‘rode hard and put away wet’ in regular conversation?” Hockey parent 2: “About horses or people?” …
Jan 13, 2024: Whenever I listen to an owner / CEO talk about their company’s culture, I always want a follow up survey with their employees to find out if they …
Jan 13, 2024: brb eliminating all battery powered toys from our home
Jan 12, 2024: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, 2023 - ★★ Not worth seeing when it’s -35C outside.
Jan 12, 2024: Was Apple’s iOS 17 StandBy mode tested with negative temperatures? 🤔
Jan 11, 2024: The programmer’s prayer: “Praise the Lord, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.” Psalms 144:1 NLT
Jan 11, 2024: If this is the year you’re going to add video to your podcast, check out this great guide to using iPhones to record great video—even remotely. Detail …
Jan 10, 2024: Talking career path options with our oldest is wild. YouTuber? Programmer? Game developer? Rocket League Pro? My business didn’t exist as a thing when …
Jan 10, 2024: 📝New blog post: What I Post Where, Who It’s For, and Why I Post It There. Trying to make sense of social media in 2024 and I think I’ve just made …
Jan 9, 2024: Beartown (BJÖRNSTAD in Swedish) is one of my fav book series. Curious how the series holds up on tv.
Jan 8, 2024: Happy “Oh sweet! We’ve still got After Eight’s in the pantry to snack on” to all who celebrate. (I celebrated 3 times so far today.)
Jan 8, 2024: I guess we should’ve listened to Jon Snow after all. Winter is here.
Jan 7, 2024: Sunday afternoon is for reading a good book and then falling asleep. Fire is optional but a nice bonus.
Jan 6, 2024: I think maybe your mouse is plugged in wrong?
Jan 6, 2024: The main thing I took away from watching Triangle of Sadness is that I should always order the cheeseburger and fries if I’m ever on a luxury yacht.
Jan 5, 2024: Triangle of Sadness, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Friday January 5, 2024.
Jan 5, 2024: Not directed at any client or podcast I’m working on of course! But… the longer a podcast goes on, the closer it gets to becoming this.
Jan 5, 2024: Has anyone used Eero Plus for managing internet security / devices in their family? It’s starting to look tempting if for no other reason than to …
Jan 4, 2024: I was sitting across from my son as he played a IG Reel of a man baby complaining about the new Star Wars director while I was reading this takedown …
Jan 4, 2024: If you’re a Mac Studio owner who turns on your computer every morning to find a “SSD drive not disconnected properly” error, you’re not alone. …
Jan 3, 2024: Spending way too much time looking at ice, trying to figure out how to keep it smooth, and contemplating hundreds of dollars of plywood, shovels, and …
Jan 2, 2024: It’s not just you. Geniuslink, an affiliate link app for Amazon and others, turned on some sort of “pay us now for your free account that you’ve …
Jan 1, 2024: Trevor Noah: Where Was I, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday January 1, 2024.
Jan 1, 2024: Wonka, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday December 31, 2023.
Jan 1, 2024: Happy new year. You look fabulous. 💥 Remember to turn off your alarm before you go to sleep. 😴
Dec 31, 2023: Is anyone else’s iOS App Store suddenly requiring a password the whole time instead of using Face ID?
Dec 31, 2023: Klaus, 2019 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday December 30, 2023.
Dec 30, 2023: It’s 4pm. The kids are making 2 boxes of KD for themselves, mixing it with Xmas baking. Charcuterie boards lay scattered around the house. I’m 2 …
Dec 30, 2023: “What If…?” season 2 is actually a lot of fun. They seemed to have gotten a lot more of the actual voice actors from the movies for characters than I …
Dec 29, 2023: I got Tears of the Kingdom but I’m not allowed to play it until I finish Breath of the Wild.
Dec 29, 2023: Genie, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Friday December 29, 2023.
Dec 29, 2023: I hope 2024 is the year that Retro (social lite app for sharing photos like og Instagram) has decent enough growth to ensure it continues to exist …
Dec 28, 2023: Perfect 🤩 Connections Puzzle #200 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
Dec 27, 2023: Barbie, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Tuesday December 26, 2023.
Dec 26, 2023: The heart shaped mini waffle maker was a big hit in our house.
Dec 24, 2023: Wordle 918 2/6 🟦🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 It’s a Christmas miracle.
Dec 24, 2023: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday December 24, 2023.
Dec 23, 2023: Wordle 917 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟦🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 (Had to share that one 😆)
Dec 22, 2023: For the Lemon Productions Xmas party I’m ordering in a noodle bowl from Thien Vietnam and staying in my pjs all day, as you do when your office is …
Dec 22, 2023: I don’t really want to try and convince my family to use a different recipe app, but Paprika feels like Windows 3.1 next to Crouton’s macOS. 😆
Dec 21, 2023: Pre-2023: How easy is it to spell your domain name or brand? 2023 and beyond: How easy is it for the AI bots to transcribe someone saying your domain …
Dec 21, 2023: TIL today: Raycast has a clipboard history manager built in that I haven’t been taking advantage of.
Dec 20, 2023: Any favorite iOS apps for drink recipes? Years ago I used to use Cocktail Flow, but it’s gone premium monthly subscription and I’m a cheap Mennonite …
Dec 20, 2023: Dude… c’mon you’re killing my name search ability. 🌿
Dec 19, 2023: “This is the year of video in podcasting” might actually finally be true for 2024. More and more of my clients are asking for video - snippets at …
Dec 19, 2023: No fire in our fireplace this morning, but gotta give them credit for the expiry date being accurate.
Dec 17, 2023: Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday December 17, 2023.
Dec 17, 2023: Family Switch, 2023 - ★★½ Watched on Saturday December 16, 2023.
Dec 16, 2023: Violent Night, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Friday December 15, 2023.
Dec 16, 2023: Woof. I don’t know that we can ever put this back in the box, but…
Dec 16, 2023: I’m begging a company to just try making a really good dumb tv in 2024 and see how it sells. Apple does fairly well in other areas like this. I think …
Dec 15, 2023: 🍋 It’s late Friday afternoon somewhere, so here’s a reminder of the weekly newsletter I send out. The most recent issue just went to inboxes but you …
Dec 15, 2023: “Oh no! I’ve taken too much dip and need more chips.” “Oh no! I’ve got too many chips, and now I need more dip.” (Repeat all Xmas season long.)
Dec 13, 2023: It’s all kinds of messed up here. No snow. +5C in December. Feels like fall but it’s less than 2 weeks until Xmas. I’m caught up on work, but feel …
Dec 13, 2023: Found this quote said by my youngest a year ago that’s still true today: “At least when you were a kid you didn’t have to deal with Elon Musk.” 😆
Dec 12, 2023: “The Year Twitter Died” from The Verge is worth a visit for some bizarro web design vibes and storytelling.
Dec 11, 2023: The key to being able to eat a lot of cheese over the holidays is to slice it really thin. The thinner the cheese, the less fatty it is. Thus you can …
Dec 11, 2023: I really have no idea why The Marvels didn’t do better in theatres. It was fun, light, and didn’t drag everything out with mountains of superhero …
Dec 10, 2023: The Marvels, 2023 - ★★★½ (contains spoilers) This review may contain spoilers. I don’t know why this isn’t doing better? It’s a fun superhero movie in a 90 minute run time, with some heartfelt …
Dec 9, 2023: I’m convinced they could re-release Beatles Rock Band and make $$$ again with the same exact game. Every generation of gamers needs a Rock Band guitar …
Dec 9, 2023: Leave the World Behind, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday December 9, 2023.
Dec 9, 2023: I hope Tim Cook and Tim Epic Games Guy are happy that they had their big lawyer fight and so now I can’t join my kids in playing LEGO Fortnite on my …
Dec 8, 2023: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, 1989 - ★★½ Watched on Friday December 8, 2023.
Dec 8, 2023: 🍋 A quick reminder of my weekly newsletter I send out. Here’s the most recent issue to read and decide if it’s worth signing up for.
Dec 8, 2023: Kids can be annoying and frustrating and exhausting… yes. But sometimes they make delicious muffins you get to enjoy with your coffee. 🤤
Dec 6, 2023: I hadn’t realized that by choosing to work from home, I’d also signed up to be my mom’s delivery drop off location. 😆
Dec 6, 2023: John Mulaney: Baby J, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Tuesday December 5, 2023.
Dec 4, 2023: Contract negotiation tip: If you promise a cheeseburger for a goal, figure out in advance what happens if your kid gets a hat trick. 🍔🍔🍔
Dec 2, 2023: We’re currently using a 3GB / 30 day data plan with Public Mobile for our oldest. Anyone have better Canadian mobile rates for their kids?
Dec 2, 2023: Instead of sending my newsletter on Friday like usual, I sent it on Saturday morning just like I totally planned to do. Here’s this week’s issue if …
Nov 30, 2023: With today’s updates to Final Cut Pro + Logic Pro, it feels like Apple is trying to show their commitment to both audio and video platforms.
Nov 30, 2023: Can I get a Logic Pro Wrapped 2023 because that would show all the podcast episodes I’ve listened / edited? 😆
Nov 29, 2023: I’m sure they’ve done the math, but I honestly feel like Costco would sell a lot more jumbo muffins (to me) if I didn’t have to buy 24 at a time. 12 …
Nov 29, 2023: I think it speaks to the chaos within Apple that they have the Apple Music app (macOS + iOS) AND they own the hardware (iPhone) AND they make a …
Nov 28, 2023: Just a reminder before you sign up for Substack alongside a bunch of Nazis to write your newsletter, there are a bunch of other options. Now you can’t …
Nov 27, 2023: I’m at a hockey rink and I resisted getting rink fries. Please clap for me.
Nov 27, 2023: I managed to score the 2x multiplier in life this morning with a) youngest forgetting their instrument so I had to scrape off the truck to run it …
Nov 26, 2023: I meet all 3 of those criteria. I guess I should respond. 😂
Nov 26, 2023: We tried going to see The Marvels today and the projector wasn’t working. They tried for an hour to fix, and eventually sent us away with 2 free …
Nov 25, 2023: Successfully operated a hockey scoreboard reward
Nov 24, 2023: A question for HomePod mini owners: If you went from 1 HomePod mini to 2 in a single room, was it a “oh wow!” or a “oh that’s ok” or a “shoot I wasted …
Nov 23, 2023: 📝New blog post: I followed an internet rabbit trail and ended up writing my own list of app defaults.
Nov 23, 2023: Me every year during the American Thanksgiving long weekend: Why am I getting so much done, feeling caught up, and nobody is responding to my Discord …
Nov 22, 2023: Honest LinkedIn notifications is almost too perfect.
Nov 21, 2023: What phrases should turn on the Christmas tree lights this year?
Nov 20, 2023: I can’t stress enough how good Drafts is for helping kick a Twitter habit. Need to throw a thought out at the world? Open Drafts, type it, and then go …
Nov 19, 2023: Restaurants: Nobody likes your digital display menu that changes. If your menu can’t fit on your wall of TVs, then shorten your menu. 😪
Nov 18, 2023: Tetris, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Friday November 17, 2023.
Nov 17, 2023: Everyone: NFTs are a money grab by the rich that creates scarcity out of digital things that aren’t scarce. It’s so 2021 and gross. The NHL: Hey! To …
Nov 17, 2023: This is your reminder of a weekly (at most) newsletter I send out that contains thoughts I would’ve tweeted but am sending via email instead. Here’s …
Nov 16, 2023: This is the Eero 6+ 3 pack I ordered that’s on special again. Worth it if you’ve got corners of your home that have weak or no signals.
Nov 15, 2023: Kid hurt himself at school so you better believe his pain became my French fry gain! 🤤 (he’s fine!)
Nov 15, 2023: I’m craving Wendy’s fries at the moment. Posting it for support. Follow along to find out if I cave at lunch, or just eat a box of crackers in my pjs …
Nov 14, 2023: …and randomly “Nikki” and I played a few levels together. I think they’ve helped a lot more people revive than I have? I assume that’s what the 1,850 …
Nov 14, 2023: I just had a neat experience in Super Mario Wonder where another player guided me to where the last Wonder Seed was in a puzzle level. It’s …
Nov 14, 2023: Did I win?
Nov 13, 2023: You’d think by now I’d know better than to load up a plate of leftover pizza to eat while editing a fitness trainer’s podcast, but I don’t ok? 😆
Nov 13, 2023: I get emails: 75+ meetings a week? Are you insane? That sounds awful. The best worst part is “partially thought & written by my AIs” 😆 I hate …
Nov 13, 2023: The MCC Quilt sale is live. Money raised will provide essential hygiene items, school supplies, warm comforters and many more essential items for …
Nov 12, 2023: The Lost City, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Sunday November 12, 2023.
Nov 11, 2023: Hey Siri don’t ever let me order a foot long sub at Subway again. Those days have passed. Signed: Chris in a sub coma.
Nov 10, 2023: This is your reminder of a weekly (at most) newsletter I send out that contains thoughts I would’ve tweeted if Elon hadn’t barfed all over Twitter. ➡️ …
Nov 8, 2023: I used to think that if Threads got popular, that would piss El0n off the most. But the more I think about it, if LinkedIn became the new place …
Nov 7, 2023: Shamelessly borrowing a friend’s dog so I can get social media points for puppy pics.
Nov 7, 2023: 🔗 Stories: Building a home for my shitty sci-fi | daverupert.com Are they great? No, they are shitty. Can you read them? Yes, you can. Testing …
Nov 6, 2023: Instagram is tracking about 2.5 weeks behind TikTok based on when I see a video on TikTok vs when my extended family shares it from Instagram to the …
Nov 6, 2023: Craig Mod is on one of his Tokyo walks this week. The “rules” for the walk and form to sign up for his pop-up newsletter are available here. I enjoy …
Nov 4, 2023: I’m feeling the tension of wanting to encourage my oldest looking for a job so he’s got some spending money of his own, versus not wanting to push him …
Nov 3, 2023: This is your once a week (at most) reminder of a weekly (at most) newsletter I send out that contains thoughts I would’ve tweeted if Elon hadn’t …
Nov 2, 2023: I never understood why fights break out with parents at a hockey game until tonight when I heard a hockey mom shouting “turn and burn!” at her kid for …
Nov 2, 2023: I spend a lot of mental energy worrying about whether I should be helping AI editing tools like Descript come take my business and livelihood. I try …
Nov 2, 2023: Apple would do a lot more for my health if they developed a Watch feature that zapped me every time it sensed that I was opening a mini chocolate bar. …
Nov 1, 2023: 📝New blog post: A quick post of appreciation for Phoebe Bridgers’ lyrics
Oct 31, 2023: Happy Halloween 🎃
Oct 31, 2023: Having one of those “why am I so tired?” days where I repeatedly forget that my night brain decided to keep me awake from 3am - 6am last night.
Oct 31, 2023: Shipping new iMacs with 256GB of storage is a dick move. I get needing a low cost iMac, but the middle model should start at 512GB. It’s the …
Oct 30, 2023: It’d be hilarious if at Apple’s event tonight, Tim Cook came out in a John Hodgman “I’m a Mac” costume and announced that the iPhone 16 is being …
Oct 30, 2023: Getting everyone else in my family out the door on a chilly Monday morning helps me appreciate my working from home business so much. My commute is …
Oct 28, 2023: The Dark Knight, 2008 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday October 28, 2023.
Oct 28, 2023: This is the right way to snooze tasks or todos. Apple’s Reminders options have been wrong for years. Fantastical gets it right.
Oct 28, 2023: Big 🏆 to whoever is on the AirPlay team at Apple. It may not be 100% perfect for everyone, but I’m always amazed that I can play a song from my phone …
Oct 27, 2023: It’s a bit nutty out there. And by nutty I mean super icy and blizzardy.
Oct 27, 2023: I think Christians sometimes confuse singing in church for a Holy Spirit moment, when the act of doing something in unity with hundreds of other …
Oct 26, 2023: Co-signed: Apple, Please Just Let Me Use Digital Clocks
Oct 26, 2023: 📝New blog post: My thoughts on Spotify as a vampire, sucking all the money out of podcasting.
Oct 26, 2023: Apparently U2’s new microsite for the space baby is powered by Astro. Love when my nerd world and my music world collide sometimes.
Oct 26, 2023: My new podcast is called “Who the heck is actually using Dropbox for signing documents” where I scour the globe trying to find anyone who wants …
Oct 25, 2023: 📝 New blog post: Apple Increases Pricing on AppleTV+ / iCloud+
Oct 25, 2023: 📝 New blog post: Why You Shouldn’t Get a PS5 Just to Play Spider-Man 2
Oct 25, 2023: Flu shot in the left arm, COVID vaccine in the right. Left was sore during the day. Right was more sore while trying to sleep. I guess what I’m saying …
Oct 24, 2023: Waiting on my microchip installation so Trudeau can make me post government conspiracy content on tiktok.
Oct 24, 2023: We woke up to snow on the ground today. For the first time in a long time, I managed to get the winter tires on our van AND the sprinklers blown out …
Oct 23, 2023: If a friend asks for a video screencast of what you meant in your feature suggestion for their app, do you also make sure to pinhole your webcam so …
Oct 21, 2023: The Menu, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday October 21, 2023.
Oct 21, 2023: Related to the annoying lights on every electronic thing—the Eero 6+ pucks have a setting for each one that lets you decide if you want the status …
Oct 21, 2023: Every review of a bedside charging brick should state whether it has a light on it that can’t be turned off. If it does, the review should just read …
Oct 20, 2023: I’m restarting my newsletter again (again x 3), this time as a “Thoughts I Would’ve Tweeted if Elon Hadn’t Barfed on Twitter” weekly summary of things …
Oct 20, 2023: I love that Buttondown lets you set a canonical URL for each newsletter you send out, that way you can have a blog post at your website with the same …
Oct 20, 2023: What a coincidence that Apple’s movie also happens to be trending in Apple’s App Store.
Oct 19, 2023: If Twitter thinks paying $1 will deter bot makers on Twitter, clearly they’ve never been to a concert where someone’s paid over $300 to get so drunk …
Oct 19, 2023: I’m listening to music (random #U2 if you must know or haven’t guessed already) but I have to turn it off to edit podcasts. Sadly I still haven’t …
Oct 19, 2023: Somehow the 2nd gen AirPort Express I bought back in ~2012 continues to work and stream music to my stereo. I keep waiting for the update that breaks …
Oct 18, 2023: U2’s version of So Cruel from The Sphere is a beautiful example of the harmonies Bono and Edge have perfected over the 32 (!) years since Achtung …
Oct 18, 2023: Might have to upgrade to macOS Sonoma just so Reminders can sync the auto-sorted grocery lists. I look forward to when you can specify which grocery …
Oct 17, 2023: We really liked The Afterparty (both seasons). Sad to hear it won’t be getting a third season, but it’s also great as it was so hopefully Apple …
Oct 17, 2023: Elgato announced new teleprompter hardware, creatively called “Prompter”. Paired with their webcam, naturally, it makes for a nice eye line for zoom …
Oct 16, 2023: Parenting tip: iOS17’s Assistive Access mode is great for accessibility (seniors, etc.) but also great as a consequence for a teen using their phone …
Oct 15, 2023: I don’t like my sausage half cocked. 😆
Oct 15, 2023: One of the things I didn’t appreciate about an e-reader is how having the book cover on the device reminds me that I have a book to read in a way that …
Oct 14, 2023: Haunted Mansion, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday October 14, 2023.
Oct 14, 2023: “Have no Sphere, all of us and you too are here.” Hockey Night in Canada with the bad U2 puns following a “Beautiful Day” intro.
Oct 14, 2023: I picked up a 3 pack of the eero 6+ wifi routers and I’m just annoyed I didn’t do it sooner to help fix some dead zones in our house.
Oct 13, 2023: Shaun of the Dead, 2004 - ★★★★½ Watched on Friday October 13, 2023.
Oct 13, 2023: I know it isn’t Apple’s way of doing business, but I still maintain that selling Apple TV hardware at a loss would benefit their entire ecosystem. If …
Oct 13, 2023: I love the idea of being able to blog with WordPress on an iPad mini 34,000 feet in the air.
Oct 12, 2023: Threads has added the ability to dictate a voice “thread” and edit the transcription so naturally I posted the wicked witch argument audio as a …
Oct 12, 2023: Amazing. Brad Frost wants to celebrate his 40th in his hometown of Pittsburgh next August, and is doing it by putting on Frostapalooza. I’m tempted to …
Oct 12, 2023: “We should probably cancel our Netflix subscription. We’re not really using it.” (opens up Netflix to find account details) “Oh there’s this Beckham …
Oct 11, 2023: Does anyone enjoy “albums” on Apple Music that have videos mixed with music? I don’t know what the best way is to have videos from artists, but it …
Oct 11, 2023: If you’re curious about Micro.blog, check out the latest episode of ShopTalk Show where Dave and Chris interview Micro.blog’s creator, Manton Reece. …
Oct 10, 2023: Tempted to pick up the Elgato Wave XLR that’s on sale at Amazon for an updated USB-C preamp for my Heil PR40 mic, but the macOS support seems to be …
Oct 10, 2023: Game Boy Mom meme traced back to Saskatchewan. 💜
Oct 10, 2023: I haven’t been bitten by an iCloud bug like Dan Moran details here yet? For my business I pay for Dropbox & Drive as well, and I wish iCloud Drive had …
Oct 9, 2023: Let the 3D printing commence. I’ll never have to buy a guitar pic again!
Oct 7, 2023: Just in time for Halloween, my brother-in-law has a sweet tutorial and pattern for making turtle shells out of foam floor mats.
Oct 5, 2023: I’m really happy iPhone camera reviews like this exist, but I’d be down to review iPhones from the perspective of someone who takes sunset photos …
Oct 5, 2023: Flighty remains undefeated as the best (iOS only?) app for tracking flights. It’s one of those rare apps that makes me want to do the thing it’s …
Oct 5, 2023: I love Savvycal for calendar booking, but I’m checking out Flexibits Fantastical and I’m not sure why I wouldn’t just use that for less? Anyone tried …
Oct 5, 2023: I wonder how much editing was done to episode 2 of #Survivor after episode 1 was so widely panned as a terrible intro to the season? Or is ep 2 locked …
Oct 4, 2023: What do I do? Where do I post? How do I do social media anymore? Stop freaking out. Sign up for a Micro.blog account. Syndicate from there out to …
Oct 4, 2023: I realize it probably couldn’t replace the stock bookshelf functionality on Micro.blog, but I’m loving how Hardcover is to reading as Letterboxd is to …
Oct 4, 2023: Posting on Micro.blog about editing a podcast interviewing the creator of Micro.blog has to win some sort of small “m” meta prize, right?
Oct 4, 2023: Updates coming to Patreon, including an option for a free tier. The new logo kind of looks like a weird kidney though?
Oct 4, 2023: A family we know needs some help accessing mental health treatment. If you’re able to help in some way, they’ve set up a GoFundMe here. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Oct 3, 2023: I (finally) published a new video on my YouTube showing how easy it is to record, edit, and publish a podcast episode from Descript to Transistor to …
Oct 1, 2023: Joining the ebook revolution (10 years late). Picked up a Kobo Libra 2. Someone give Robin Rendle an affiliate dollar.
Sep 30, 2023: From a 2022 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremony, Dennis Saddleman’s poem Monster.
Sep 30, 2023: Experiencing U2 at The Sphere for the first time the way Willie Williams intended it: on my phone on TikTok half covered by comment buttons and UI. 😆
Sep 29, 2023: I’m here to remind you that if you can wrap your head around using Drafts to post things to the internet with, you’ll unlock a super power. (I haven’t …
Sep 29, 2023: “So the backup camera is just $390 and the hitch electrical replacement is gonna be $477.” Anyone else’s blood drain from their body when on a phone …
Sep 29, 2023: Nothing to see here. Just testing out posting from Drafts to Microblog.
Sep 29, 2023: Letterboxd, my fav movie review / list site, sold a 60% stake in their company to Tiny, a Canadian investment and holding company. I’m cautiously …
Sep 29, 2023: New #U2 song and video: Atomic City. Released as they start their residency in Vegas at The Sphere this weekend.
Sep 28, 2023: Does macOS Sonoma give you the ability to turn off the stupid Mail link preview thing that makes a mess of emails? If so, I’ll upgrade yesterday—audio …
Sep 27, 2023: Woof. That wasn’t a great season opener for Survivor. 😳 No spoilers, but I can’t imagine Jeff was happy that’s how it went down for episode one.
Sep 27, 2023: Why your podcast needs a website #203: When I’m linking to your podcast from another podcast’s show notes, I’m not putting Spotify, Apple, YouTube, …
Sep 27, 2023: I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a reminder that Survivor season 45 starts tonight.
Sep 27, 2023: New Shure SM7 mic variant just dropped: SM7DB No need for a vocal preamp, still XLR only. They’ve also (recently?) added a MVX2U which is a USB-C to …
Sep 26, 2023: I shouldn’t upgrade to macOS Sonoma today because I’m in the middle of editing a podcast. But then I thought: the guest on the podcast works at Apple. …
Sep 26, 2023: I’m a fan of competition, but something about Descript / Squadcast using my filenames or file download source metadata to target a competitor …
Sep 26, 2023: 📺 24 iOS17 settings you could change
Sep 26, 2023: I always wondered why Apple didn’t let you listen to the Music interviews more easily—glad to see they’ve added them to the Podcasts app.
Sep 25, 2023: Lovely ode to writing on the webby Robin Rendle.
Sep 25, 2023: Finally back to time for a stupid walk for the old 🧠
Sep 25, 2023: TikTok has added text only posts. It’s always weird when a platform tries to go outside their natural medium so I don’t think this will work all that …
Sep 25, 2023: What the heck is this LinkedIn? 🤣 I have no employees, it’s just me. How did I not know that Adam’s been working for me for 2 years? Can I take a …
Sep 24, 2023: It’s hard to tell when exactly I posted a few videos about provincial politics and education issues. 😆
Sep 22, 2023: Recording a podcast locally and didn’t notice I ran out of space on my memory card. Pull it out and realize I’ve been relying on a 2GB memory card …
Sep 22, 2023: Ok let’s see if @chriscoyier has a blog post coming up on this: What’s the best iPhone car mount with magsafe charging? The only one Apple lists is a …
Sep 21, 2023: That’s twice in one week where @chriscoyier has read my mind on a decision I was waffling on and written a blog post telling me exactly what I should …
Sep 20, 2023: Based off of nothing more than this blog post by Robin Rendle, I’m tempted to order a Kobo Libra 2 e-reader. Anyone else have one? I can’t do Kindle …
Sep 20, 2023: Love the renewed focus on iPad apps. First Camo releases Camo Studio and now the makers of Halide, a popular photography for iPhone, have published …
Sep 19, 2023: AppleTV rant update: Apparently tvOS 17 does support FaceTime on all Apple TV 4K boxes, not just second gen models as I previously thought. It works …
Sep 19, 2023: “I imagine this is what it feels like when you’re on a phone call with someone and towards the end of the call you hear a distinct flushing sound.” 😆 …
Sep 18, 2023: Almost time to watch hockey again. Toxic Actions of Toxic Coach of Toxic Sport in Toxic League exposed by Toxic Host of Toxic Podcast on Toxic …
Sep 18, 2023: I’ve been messing with WordPress again and was just thinking “Dang, I wish there was a nice WP theme like Atomic Themes from Mike Mcalister back in …
Sep 18, 2023: A watched Watch never finishes.
Sep 18, 2023: Apple has released iOS17 (and watchOS, tvOS, HomePod, etc.) today. Be sure to check out the new AirDrop animation. ✨
Sep 17, 2023: I realized why Friday seemed to go so smoothly and it’s because I forgot about editing a podcast episode that’s due first thing Monday morning. …
Sep 15, 2023: I love Maggie Appleton’s website. Both the design and UI, as well as very smart words.
Sep 14, 2023: 22 of 1,909. It’s a start. 😆
Sep 14, 2023: All I’m asking for is if I do a Google search in Safari, my Mac Studio M2 Max powered computer from the future doesn’t have to spin up my external …
Sep 13, 2023: I see Substack in the URL, I get an ick and wait for the pop up while I’m reading the words you wrote deciding if it’s worth hanging around. I see …
Sep 13, 2023: Any podcast nerds know if a USB-C enabled iOS device (iPad? iPhone 15?) can just take a USB-C mic plugged in directly as a recording device? Because …
Sep 13, 2023: Any friends running Audio Hijack, Loopback, Farrago, or other awesome Rogue Amoeba software - check their status page for updates for macOS 14 …
Sep 12, 2023: I don’t know what they are because I only hear the words “web components” on podcasts I edit, but the newly launched Luro “…is a no-code solution to …
Sep 12, 2023: Just one time I want to hear: “This is by far our second best iPhone lineup yet - second only to the iPhone lineup we had in 2019. That was such a …
Sep 12, 2023: Couldn’t sleep this morning so I did what you do when you can’t sleep: read Anne Helen Petersen’s article on RushTok and Greek Life at the University …
Sep 12, 2023: One thing I’m not loving in the iOS 17 beta is how if there’s anything AirPlay nearby, you don’t get to see the time anymore.
Sep 11, 2023: When you’ve got a million dollar budget, but nobody’s able to make sure “click this banner” actually has a clickable URL. whomp whomp
Sep 10, 2023: I appreciate that The Chicks have updated their stage show with Trump and friends’ mug shots. Got a large round of applause even here, north of the …
Sep 10, 2023: I’d rather be alone in a new place where I’m supposed to be alone, than alone in a place where people know me.
Sep 9, 2023: Bruce Almighty, 2003 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday September 9, 2023.
Sep 9, 2023: Crew cab. Super cab. Club cab. Extended cab. Supercrew cab. 3.5L. 5L. V8. V6. Why can’t truck shopping be simple like buying a Mac? 🤔 😆 M1 or M2. …
Sep 8, 2023: If you’re vehicle shopping, don’t test drive a vehicle with CarPlay unless you plan to buy it. Even though it has nothing to do with how well a …
Sep 8, 2023: Really looking forward to the future Strike Force Five podcast episode where they talk about toxic work environments and how to deal with claims of …
Sep 8, 2023: The macOS Ventura 13.5.2 update appears to have rendered my old Focusrite audio interface unable to connect to my Mac Studio. 🥲
Sep 7, 2023: I just noticed by chance that the logged in view vs logged out view of my account on Twitter is very different. Just me?
Sep 7, 2023: New blog post ✏️ The Fakest Praying Coach
Sep 7, 2023: I should know by now not to grab a bowl of chips to snack on while editing my client’s podcast who’s a fitness and wellness educator / coach. Not that …
Sep 7, 2023: I love when a podcast client says in their recording to me, as if I’m in the booth with them, “Oh shoot Chris… what did I just say? Oh make it sound …
Sep 7, 2023: By using this little bit of automation on my iPhone to automatically open Threads when I start Twitter, I end up being annoyed at both Twitter and …
Sep 6, 2023: Interesting. 37Signals, a company that made a bazillion dollars off subscription app services (SaaS), is now saying that’s going away for a lot of …
Sep 6, 2023: Once again tempted to sign up for an omg.lol address for no good reason other than it’s fun. I already have plenty of domains and hosting options. And …
Sep 6, 2023: 🤔
Sep 5, 2023: I’ve flown among the Starfield stars and came back to boast of my feats. 🎮
Sep 5, 2023: The output is so mediocre and uninspiring that if it were a person, it’d say that LinkedIn was “exciting”, its favourite colour would be beige, and …
Sep 5, 2023: One reason I’ve found Arc (or other browsers) to be quicker than Safari is a search in Safari seems to trigger external hard drives spinning up for …
Sep 4, 2023: “So tomorrow everyone will need to be out of the house by 8:10am to get to school / work on time.” Me: “Yesssssssssssssssssss!!! “Oh… did I say that …
Sep 4, 2023: Happy Labour Day to all those who celebrate in whatever way you need to celebrate. I’m slightly labouring today so that hopefully I can labour less …
Sep 4, 2023: Marketers of the email variety: nobody wants you to circle back. No circles allowed. Straight lines only. Just keep walking. Away.👋
Sep 2, 2023: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2013 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday September 2, 2023.
Sep 2, 2023: Seems like a handy thing to save for later: How to Set up Time Machine Server in macOS Ventura or Later
Sep 2, 2023: How do you talk to your inner critic? What tips or tricks have worked for you, even if it just works for a season, to not let it take control and ruin …
Sep 1, 2023: The Shawshank Redemption, 1994 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday September 1, 2023.
Sep 1, 2023: 📸 Day 1 / abstract #mbsept
Sep 1, 2023: Oldest got their license. I’m nervous but excited for the extra driver help. He’s already gone on two somewhat unnecessary driving trips this …
Sep 1, 2023: Burp aggressively while making eye contact with anyone who interrupts you. Self care
Aug 31, 2023: Make the thing the link
Aug 31, 2023: Old person question: If a bunch of what seems to be Gen-Z accounts are commenting “💀” on one of my TikToks, is that a good or bad thing? Am I being …
Aug 30, 2023: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012 - ★★★ Watched on Wednesday August 30, 2023.
Aug 29, 2023: New (last week before I broke my blog) blog post: 📊 Upgrading Shaw Home Internet to Rogers Ignite 1.5G
Aug 29, 2023: Hey me back in 2009 following Adam Lisagor for the first time because of the cool Birdhouse app’s introduction video: In late 2023 you’ll finally get …
Aug 28, 2023: People who work directly with clients (solo or small business owners like me?) - do you have an email newsletter specifically for your clients? Or do …
Aug 27, 2023: Gran Turismo, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Sunday August 27, 2023.
Aug 27, 2023: Send help: my 10yo has started into makeup. I’m not panicking about her morality or her choices or anything like that—mainly how she has aged 6 years …
Aug 26, 2023: Benefits of catching up on work (self employed work anyway) on a Saturday: it might take longer because of distractions and lazy brain, but it somehow …
Aug 26, 2023: I hope to someday have the confidence (without the ignorance) of the man who stood on his $60,000 boat filling it with gas and proclaimed with his …
Aug 25, 2023: Sweet Threads man. I’m iChrisV2 over there if you’re also trying to thread.
Aug 25, 2023: “I’ll just quickly blog something.” Very quickly remembers I left my blog’s build system broken when I went on vacation a week ago. D’oh!
Aug 25, 2023: Thing that I get irrational upset about: Nearly everyone in my extended family screenshots things when they want to share information rather than just …
Aug 25, 2023: Currently reading: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 📚
Aug 24, 2023: Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚
Aug 22, 2023: My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday August 21, 2023.
Aug 19, 2023: Birthdays are for drinking coffee and watch your kids yell at the lag in Rocket League.
Aug 19, 2023: Holy 💩 this is crazy. A new book coming soon talks about the scams behind crypto and the people being caught in them. Going on my to read list. 📚
Aug 18, 2023: Dune, 2021 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday August 18, 2023.
Aug 17, 2023: What’s your fav beside table / behind the couch plug like this? (USB-A, USB-C, easy to fit behind a bed or couch.)
Aug 17, 2023: Someone on tiktok told me I needed to “grow some man nuts girly boy” because I made a video about not wanting to come across a bear or mountain lion …
Aug 17, 2023: As a parent of 3 kids, I know when “kids at camp” is on the calendar that there’s a 120% chance that one of the three gets some sort of illness. Last …
Aug 16, 2023: Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Tuesday August 15, 2023.
Aug 15, 2023: ✏️ New blog post: Exporting Eleventy Blog Posts to WordPress Issues
Aug 15, 2023: Here’s the official announcement from Squadcast on being aquired by Descript. Getting both tools for the price of Descript is pretty great, and is a …
Aug 15, 2023: Please don’t say “I’m so glad you’re moving on” to someone who’s working through something, especially trauma. Getting a new job isn’t “moving on” …
Aug 15, 2023: I can’t read the full article, but Bloomberg has leaked that Descript is buying Squadcast. Descript is a transcription / screencast / editing app, …
Aug 13, 2023: Two interesting moments in this Matt Rife clip on his TikTok: 1) His explanation of why he posts crowd work clips on social media and not his original …
Aug 13, 2023: I didn’t realize until watching way too many tiktoks that some Americans actually use the phrase “cussing” when they’re talking about swearing at each …
Aug 11, 2023: I feel like this example Chris Coyier blogged about trying to find a moment in a podcast he’d listened to could be the more interesting angle for AI / …
Aug 11, 2023: Nerds in 2013: “I buy so many domain names. It’s crazy. I’ve got like $200 in domain names right now I’m not using!” Nerds in 2023: “I’ve got $5,000 …
Aug 11, 2023: It’s a silly thing, but I find it funny that Descript—an app that transcribes spoken word to text—doesn’t recognize it’s own name when spoken.
Aug 10, 2023: Pitch Perfect 3, 2017 - ★★½ Watched on Thursday August 10, 2023.
Aug 10, 2023: This is a beautiful edition of Life of Pi - via Robin Rendle.
Aug 10, 2023: Show me your mug time! It’s a rainy morning over here, but 3/4 members of U2 are ready to rock. (Larry’s pouting in t he corner at the moment.)
Aug 9, 2023: Congrats on a new job - possibly in DevRel. Now please get yourself a good microphone for the podcasts you’re going to be a guest on.
Aug 9, 2023: Damien Rice finds out mid-concert about Sinead O’Connor passing away. Along with the audience he figures out a beautiful tribute of Nothing Compares 2 …
Aug 8, 2023: Let’s do the old walk for the ole 🧠 matter.
Aug 8, 2023: Anyone wanna go (does some weird math on his fingers) tensies on this small lake front property with me?
Aug 8, 2023: Who needs sleep?
Aug 7, 2023: The labelling feels a little off here. 😆
Aug 7, 2023: Happy civic holiday day to most jurisdictions in Canada. (Just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?)
Aug 6, 2023: Hey jet skis nobody likes you. You’re the lawn trimmer at 6am on the weekend of the lake.
Aug 6, 2023: OH from across the lake as shouted by a kid on a tube behind a boat: “I’M IN A BAD POSITION!” 😝
Aug 6, 2023: I was mocked - mocked I say! - for my long weekend hair did. So now I’m posting it so the world can mock me too. “It looks like you tried to slick …
Aug 5, 2023: The Bob's Burgers Movie, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday August 5, 2023.
Aug 4, 2023: I have to reset the clock on how many days it’s been since I freaked out my family by thinking the boat won’t start when actually I just forgot to put …
Aug 4, 2023: Post by post by Ethan Marcotte is a beautiful reflection (eulogy?) on losing Twitter.
Aug 4, 2023: It’s like a fun choose-your-own adventure game. Which door would you open?
Aug 3, 2023: Going for a 🚶♂️ for 🧠 and some 💪🏽 too. 🥵 32C
Aug 3, 2023: Today’s mugshot. Show me your mug! (Please.)
Aug 2, 2023: It’s been awhile - let’s go for a stupid walk for our mental health. 🚶♂️ 🧠
Aug 2, 2023: Ooooh that’s how you make friends as adults. Got it.
Aug 1, 2023: You might think I’m on tiktok because of hot bodies and weird life hacks… but really my feed is fully “here’s a really cool mini-trailer for camping …
Jul 31, 2023: Good morning! Please show me your mug. Thank you.
Jul 30, 2023: Shoutout to the fellow solo business owners working late (or early) catching up on work from summer vacations. It’s fun being your own boss and …
Jul 28, 2023: Obviously this is how clean my desk and office are 100% of the time. (Don’t turn around.)
Jul 28, 2023: Barbie, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday July 28, 2023.
Jul 28, 2023: What’s the recommended process for setting up a new Mac in 2023? Use Migration Assistant or start with a blank slate and move things over as needed / …
Jul 28, 2023: Pitch Perfect, 2012 - ★★★ Watched on Thursday July 27, 2023.
Jul 28, 2023: Someone keeps inviting me to a Jira project? Or is this just their marketing emails trying to make me think I’m part of a team when I’m all alone. 😔
Jul 27, 2023: Well that doesn’t sound like fun.
Jul 27, 2023: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday July 27, 2023.
Jul 27, 2023: ✏️ New blog post: Sinéad O’Connor.
Jul 26, 2023: The more I see social networks flail and fall, the more I appreciate Manton & crew’s going slow approach to Micro.blog.
Jul 25, 2023: “Go on X and ask what kind of dog we should get?” Well my kids have already adapted to the new brand. 🤮 😂
Jul 25, 2023: Good morning. Starting my day with a nice cup of Stanley. ☕️
Jul 22, 2023: Customizing my Stardew Valley experience to an AFC Richmond one.
Jul 22, 2023: Our one fish (yellow, top right) always wants to hide in this corner of the tank near the top during the day. At night, it’s fine to roam everywhere. …
Jul 21, 2023: Stardew Valley+ is now available for anyone subscribed to Apple Arcade.
Jul 21, 2023: I can’t wait until my new computer arrives and I can finally export a 90 minute 1080p video while transcribing another video while syncing 100GB via …
Jul 21, 2023: Instead of going for stupid walks every day this week, I had peanut butter and honey on toast for breakfast every day this week. I’m not saying these …
Jul 20, 2023: Threadbare is spot on.
Jul 20, 2023: I’m glad Threads seems to be working for some people, but for me it’s almost 90 seconds of scrolling before I see a post from someone I follow. …
Jul 20, 2023: Interesting: Why EposVox is giving up on Windows. He edited the video in 8K on the Mac Studio, and is producing in 4:3 format intentionally.
Jul 20, 2023: Please reset the “A web developer mentions the edge technology and so Chris feels obligated to throw in a U2 audio clip reference as a joke only 5 …
Jul 20, 2023: Experimenting with Auphonic again after being away for many years. Any podcast editors out there using it in their daily production?
Jul 19, 2023: Good fire. Goodnight.
Jul 19, 2023: Podcasters might be trying to use AI to get rid of me, the podcast editor, but I’m secretly using AI to get rid of podcasters with my library of audio …
Jul 18, 2023: Asteroid City, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday July 18, 2023.
Jul 18, 2023: New blog post: I Finally Did It.
Jul 17, 2023: Currently reading: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Jul 17, 2023: I kind of dig how the current crop of Twitch developer streamers share their Twitch dashboard chat view for everyone to see rather than figure out OBS …
Jul 17, 2023: Current status: Editing a Syntax.fm episode while sipping from my Syntax.fm mug while wearing my Syntax.fm shirt while cuddling(?) my Syntax.fm skate …
Jul 17, 2023: The summer cycle: 1) Get off your phones / tv! 2) Stop bothering your sister / brother! 3) We need our phones to figure out what friends are doing!? …
Jul 17, 2023: Well I’m off to a good start. 🥱
Jul 16, 2023: I don’t know who needs to hear it, but you can save $255 on a M2 Mac mini refurb with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM right now. (Canadian Apple Store)
Jul 16, 2023: Mission: Impossible III, 2006 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday July 16, 2023.
Jul 16, 2023: Anyone have good Reader from Readwise workflows - particularly for how you’d blog interesting quotes or articles you read in Reader?
Jul 16, 2023: Saw someone with a Reagan + Bush ‘84 tshirt in Costco in Saskatoon. Do you think he’s wearing it ironically? 🤔
Jul 15, 2023: Mission: Impossible II, 2000 - ★½ Slow motion doves.
Jul 15, 2023: Mission: Impossible, 1996 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday July 15, 2023.
Jul 15, 2023: Anyone using the iOS 17 public beta yet?
Jul 15, 2023: Updating my bio:
Jul 14, 2023: I just had a shower at home after a week of camping. That’s it. That’s all I have to say. 😌 🎉
Jul 14, 2023: Any friends out in Des Moines, Iowa know if Ed Garner has still got his Autorama going on?
Jul 13, 2023: I’m sorry to anyone at Netlify affected by the layoffs this week. It sucks a lot - I know how much heart and soul has gone into making it a great app …
Jul 6, 2023: The best part of The Amazing Race Canada is how Canadian everyone sounds. 😆 Somehow they sound even more stereotypical Canadian even though I live …
Jul 6, 2023: If we’ve got Paramount+ for a 7 day free trial, what do I need to binge before I cancel it?
Jul 6, 2023: It’s stupid walk for my 🧠 time. Been lazy this week now that kids are home from school and Tuesdays are Saturdays and supper is breakfast my 🧠 is …
Jul 6, 2023: Editing a client’s podcast and the guest starts off by saying “…and so I moved here from Dublin, Ireland” - and I know I’m going to enjoy listening to …
Jul 6, 2023: New post: Instagram Launches Threads - How Meta. TLDR: just chill, it’s only been a day. But also freak out because Facebook Meta is coming for your …
Jul 5, 2023: Mission: Impossible - Fallout, 2018 - ★★★★ Watched on Wednesday July 5, 2023.
Jul 5, 2023: Threads coming out of the gate with ugly URLs like Instagram
Jul 5, 2023: ChatGPT wouldn’t be quite so appealing if google search results weren’t such a mess of SEO clickbait and garbage websites.
Jul 5, 2023: Happy 30th anniversary to one of my fav albums of all time - U2’s Zooropa.
Jul 4, 2023: It’s windy and cool outside and I have lots of work to do, but I’m still going to go on a stupid walk for my stupid mental health because I skipped …
Jul 4, 2023: Some of ya’ll don’t remember we already went round one with Instagram having an app called Threads? :)
Jul 3, 2023: Just finished season one of Silo on Apple TV+ and it’s such a great series. Worth a watch if you’re subscribed, or save it for a month when you …
Jul 3, 2023: I can’t believe I’m rooting for Meta / FB to succeed, but such is the way El0n has pooped all over everything that made Twitter great. You can …
Jul 2, 2023: Ocean's Twelve, 2004 - ★★½ Watched on Sunday July 2, 2023.
Jul 1, 2023: Setting off fireworks at 11:50pm is a dick move.
Jun 30, 2023: I forgot to post about my stupid walk for my stupid mental health today because it got interrupted by meeting someone for coffee. And then a big rain …
Jun 29, 2023: The Whale, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday May 28, 2023.
Jun 29, 2023: You guessed it: stupid 🥵 weather time for a stupid walk for stupid mental health. Let’s go 🚶♂️
Jun 29, 2023: Hey Mr. Tim Apple - give everyone enough iCloud storage to at least cover the iPhone they buy. You’ll still have enough billions in the bank left …
Jun 29, 2023: I love this clip of Bill Hader talking about writing - especially how if someone gives you feedback about something that’s wrong. Listen to what they …
Jun 28, 2023: It’s mow the stupid lawn and then go for a stupid walk for my stupid mental health time. It’s getting very tempting to get fake lawn. 😂 🚶♂️
Jun 28, 2023: Imagine how much better our world would be if more people were addicted to playing good video games, and had less time to post conspiracy theories on …
Jun 27, 2023: Stupid walk for stupid mental health time. This time I’m listening to The Daily for updates on Ukraine. What podcasts are you listening to this week?
Jun 27, 2023: Do you have a podcast dream? If you could just hit record, talk with whoever you’d like about whatever you’d like, and know all the editing and …
Jun 26, 2023: Better late than never: time for a stupid walk for the old stupid mental health. I’d rather be having a nap. 🥱 🚶♂️
Jun 26, 2023: Fun pop punk cover of I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by Alex Melton. Great review in the comments: “I wouldn’t mind if this was forcibly …
Jun 25, 2023: It’s rained twice today, and Apple Weather hasn’t had a clue both times. Mostly clear right now, meanwhile I can hear the rain on the windows.
Jun 24, 2023: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018 - ★★★★½ Watched on Saturday June 24, 2023.
Jun 24, 2023: Having done an afternoon of yard work, I’m definitely built for editing podcasts. 😂 😪 🥵
Jun 23, 2023: The Secrets of Hillsong, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday June 22, 2023.
Jun 23, 2023: It’s super rude of all these people with pools in their backyard to not invite me for a swim while I’m on my stupid walk for my stupid mental health. …
Jun 23, 2023: The whole “own your own content on your own website” only really works if we share each other’s content that we find interesting, funny, or otherwise …
Jun 23, 2023: ✏️ New post: Where you should host your newsletter that isn’t Substack. “It’s the vibe of the thing.”
Jun 22, 2023: Pull up a chair… 🔥
Jun 22, 2023: I had a dream that I was hanging out with Pedro Pascal but then half way through the dream I suddenly got worried that I mixed him up with Oscar Isaac …
Jun 22, 2023: 🖊️ New post: Reflecting on U2’s Kite - aka getting your heart ripped out by your kids and a slide guitar solo.
Jun 22, 2023: Catching (and trying to stop) my brain from playing the social media comparison game - my one human person’s achievements as compared to everyone I …
Jun 21, 2023: I’m really happy there’s a new Super Mario Bros. game coming later this year.
Jun 21, 2023: Hey maybe you want to listen to that Gang of Youths album I posted about while going on your stupid walk for your stupid mental health? Your choice of …
Jun 21, 2023: A reminder that Gang of Youths put out a great album way back in 2022. Start with ’the angel of 8th ave.’ if you need a place to begin.
Jun 21, 2023: Update your Apple devices day with a security vulnerability fix.
Jun 21, 2023: The best time to start a journal, blog, or podcast documenting toxic leadership is before it starts. The second best time is right now. Don’t ignore …
Jun 20, 2023: I apologize to the neighbourhood for the sudden desire my children have had to pull out the trumpet and saxophone and do battle with each other. 🙉
Jun 20, 2023: It’s time for a stupid walk for the old stupid 🧠 and maybe a stupid iced coffee as motivation. Let’s go 🚶♂️.
Jun 20, 2023: Is there an AI tool of some sort that would allow you to upload audio of a podcast and have it spit out the amount of time each voice talks over the …
Jun 19, 2023: More “leaders” continue to be absolutely clowned by people who just want to have a crack at creating great community. Tip to leaders: You can’t say …
Jun 19, 2023: It’s stupid walk for stupid mental health time. Let’s go. 🚶♂️
Jun 19, 2023: Another reminder that Spotify podcasting was reckless with money. I feel bad for the good podcast folks who got hired and then fired because of deals …
Jun 17, 2023: If I want to add a teammate to my Notion account, I lose my $5/month plan (upgrade to $8/month) AND pay $8/month for the teammate. Am I whining over …
Jun 16, 2023: Avatar: The Way of Water, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday June 16, 2023.
Jun 16, 2023: 😠 🚶♂️ 4️⃣😤🧠🏥
Jun 16, 2023: Possibly half-baked Friday afternoon thought: If you own a local radio station, you should be setting up a side business for selling podcast …
Jun 15, 2023: While editing a client’s podcast, I learned about t.ly as a very short URL shortener. Plus it’s run by an indie dev, so you’re not giving money to …
Jun 15, 2023: I can’t tell if using a cardboard box for your laptop outside in the sun is a dumb idea or a genius idea?
Jun 15, 2023: I’m constantly amazed at how smart, funny, and interesting most of the people I follow on this site are. Then there’s the few of you I’m genuinely …
Jun 14, 2023: Parenting tip: Don’t ever trust a 10yo who confidently states “my parents are totally fine with it.” to whatever question you’ve asked where you’re …
Jun 14, 2023: Time for a stupid walk before a stupid thunderstorm is supposed to hit us. ⚡️🚶♂️Might turn into a stupid run if the storm gets here early. 🏃♂️😆
Jun 13, 2023: Going for a stupid (mildly) smoky walk for my stupid mental health. Easy excuse to skip it today but… we can do hard things. 😂
Jun 13, 2023: CEO 101 level course on how to inflame a situation and make it worse: tell your employees via an email that will definitely be leaked that it’s fine. …
Jun 13, 2023: “I wonder what information I need to know about this home I’m visiting? Oh I know! I’ll visit Apple’s Home app and check the notes there.” - said no …
Jun 13, 2023: A city vehicle stopped in the middle of our street, workers got out and set out warning pylons, then pulled out a device of some sort and proceeded to …
Jun 12, 2023: I went on a stupid walk for my stupid mental health, nearly melted my stupid face off, and nobody even asked me about my Transistor.fm tshirt. 😂
Jun 12, 2023: ✍️ New blog post: When to Upgrade My Mac - 5 Months Later
Jun 12, 2023: “AI Wrote This Email!” Cool. I’m going to use “AI” to automatically delete any email that says “AI Wrote This Email” going forward. Thanks for the …
Jun 11, 2023: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 2023 - ★★★★ Just as good the second time. 😥🥰
Jun 11, 2023: I wonder if the upcoming macOS game mode will also be a good “podcasting mode” option for podcasters?
Jun 10, 2023: Awesome to see moderators at Reddit not just lay down and let the CEO be an idiot.
Jun 10, 2023: ✍️ New blog post: Things I’m Looking Forward to in iOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and tvOS
Jun 10, 2023: Watching Shadow Men and wondering how we can trust anyone with anything… ever?
Jun 9, 2023: Going for another stupid walk for my stupid mental health. Might need the motivation of a stupid iced coffee halfway through to justify this stupid …
Jun 9, 2023: Sad to see that Micro.blog has to disable cross-posting to Twitter, but I understand why. El0n has made it untenable for not-uber rich apps to be able …
Jun 8, 2023: I forgot to post today, but I did go for a stupid walk. I walked to check out my kid’s band recital. Elementary school band is something special. …
Jun 8, 2023: Incredible to watch Reddit just shit on one of the more popular apps that their own community loves and uses. Imagine looking at what El0n and Twitter …
Jun 8, 2023: I saw this headline go by and thought “Yep, that’s my province.” and never read the article. Turns out, as many have pointed out, only 330 people were …
Jun 8, 2023: One anecdotal sign that Apple+ and MLS is a good partnership, for his birthday my nephew asked for Apple Store gift cards - not to buy apps or games, …
Jun 7, 2023: Welp. There goes my 1Password subscription.
Jun 7, 2023: How long until Apple resurrects the original iSight camera to bundle with AppleTV purchases? 😆
Jun 6, 2023: This morning was the first time since I started these stupid walks for my stupid mental health that I almost felt like I was looking forward to …
Jun 6, 2023: In all the discussion of Apple’s Vision Pro announcement, it’s clear not enough of you watched Upload on Prime.
Jun 6, 2023: Admittedly a privileged perspective (Ben Thompson is a tech writer and podcaster, appears to have a lot of money, etc.), but his vision of Apple …
Jun 5, 2023: I’m not saying it is the future for sure or that Apple has it nailed, but if you haven’t experienced a VR headset in your home yet you really don’t …
Jun 5, 2023: I can’t wait until I don’t have to actually go for stupid walks for my stupid mental health and can just imagine myself walking in Apple VR. In the …
Jun 5, 2023: Apple every year at WWDC. #WWDC23
Jun 5, 2023: Buried in my podcast editing contract is a bullet point that reads “if you imitate a wrestler from the 80’s or 90’s at any point in your podcast, I am …
Jun 5, 2023: Happy ~2 hours to go until WWDC 2023 for fellow Apple nerds out there. Everything rumored looks interesting and fun, though I suspect the reality will …
Jun 4, 2023: I hope I never get so cynical and bored with life that I can’t see a beautiful experience when it’s right in front of me. People are allowed to not …
Jun 4, 2023: I stood next to the supervisor of the Dr. Strange show at Disneyland as he checked off items in the show in Notes on an iPad. I asked “Even Avengers …
Jun 4, 2023: Me all winter: “I’m going to spend all summer outside and never miss an opportunity to be outside and hot.” Me on the second week of warm weather: …
Jun 3, 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday June 3, 2023.
Jun 3, 2023: Today for something different we’re going to mow the stupid lawn for our stupid mental health, ok? Not ruling out a walk later, but sitting in a …
Jun 2, 2023: Hey let’s go for a stupid walk for somebody’s (mine? yours?) stupid mental health ok?
Jun 2, 2023: Detail (macOS and iOS) looks like a fun new take on video recording and editing - built with M1 / M2 devices in mind.
Jun 2, 2023: I’ve taken enough words into my earballs via editing podcasts about TypeScript that you’d think I’d understand what it is. But I still don’t really …
Jun 1, 2023: Ted Lasso finale - quick thoughts
Jun 1, 2023: It’s stupid walk time. Let’s go.
Jun 1, 2023: Top podcast hosting companies by episode share is interesting. I assume Spotify for Podcasters is so high because they folded in all the free formerly …
May 31, 2023: I’m posting about going for a stupid walk for my stupid mental (and physical) health just to keep myself accountable, ok? AMA
May 31, 2023: Great feedback from a client: “I think the shits are okay :)”
May 30, 2023: “Don’t throw repressed memory Emily.” “Ehhh she won’t remember this.” Bob’s Burger is so great.
May 30, 2023: Do you have a M2 MacBook Air? Are you able to use it outside in regular sunlight while sitting in the shade?
May 30, 2023: Some interesting new block updates to Audio Hijack including a machine learning based speech denoise block.
May 29, 2023: Having driven around LA for a few days, I have no idea how it all works. It’s just so big.
May 21, 2023: Who are people talking to on phones while wandering airports? I’ve never been phoned by someone who’s in an airport. Just a text saying “where are …
May 21, 2023: I’m really glad they’re filming Bono’s Stories of Surrender show for release eventually - possibly AppleTV+.
May 20, 2023: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday May 20, 2023.
May 20, 2023: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 2017 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday May 20, 2023.
May 19, 2023: Your weekly(ish) reminder that I send out a newsletter weekly(ish) with links and thoughts I’ve collected throughout the past week(ish). Sign up here …
May 19, 2023: It really sucks so many people had to have their plans disrupted by the potential strike, but I’m thankful the pilot union and owners of Westjet came …
May 18, 2023: It’s in the fourth overtime of a playoff game, and the cameras just caught a fan fast asleep right behind the Florida bench. 😆 😴
May 18, 2023: If you’re a guest on someone’s podcast, it’s important to remember that fact: you’re the guest. Even though you’re brought on to tell your story or be …
May 18, 2023: A project that was supposed to take an hour ended up taking 5. 😪 I’m trying to remain positive that the rest of the day will go better, but this month …
May 17, 2023: You really haven’t felt the burn of online teens until you have a tiktok that gets pushed into the wrong part of town, and you see a whole bunch of …
May 16, 2023: Going for a walk. AMA
May 16, 2023: Haven’t had any doggie interruptions on client podcasts in a while, and then randomly the last 2 episodes I’ve editing have featured some barking from …
May 16, 2023: Cross posting this this post about cross posting by fellow Chris who ran with my initial post about cross posting in Discord.
May 15, 2023: Sometimes when I’m editing a client’s episode where they’re talking excitedly about AI replacing human jobs, I’m often reminded of Dave Rupert’s short …
May 15, 2023: 👋 to anyone needing / wanting to work late this fine Monday evening. Trying to get ahead of things a bit so that spring and summer getaways are a …
May 15, 2023: Carrot continues to be the best therapist I’ve yet to pay for. This is why I don’t go for walks in the woods.
May 15, 2023: “Apple expects to sell just one headset per day per retail store, and it has told suppliers that it expects sales of seven to 10 million units during …
May 14, 2023: In the past week we’ve had our 13 year old dryer and our 3 month old tv die. They don’t make them like they used to?
May 14, 2023: “Old school 80’s style selfie.” she says.
May 14, 2023: Finished reading: Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck 📚
May 13, 2023: Relationship goals. 🍔 ❤️
May 13, 2023: I broke my glasses a month ago and have survived on contact lenses only. Did ok other than a bit of stumbling around in the dark at night. 😆 👀 Last …
May 12, 2023: Did I know I was going to be sourcing hurdy-gurdy covers of Linkin Park on YouTube as part of my work on a podcast this morning? No. Was I happy to …
May 12, 2023: Podcast tip: If you want people to listen to your podcast, have some sort of subscribe page so people can subscribe to your podcast. If you don’t want …
May 11, 2023: Good conversations with good people about how to heal from bad people and be good again. Good night. 😊
May 11, 2023: I sure am glad for dark mode after getting my pupils dilated at the optometrist. I have no idea if this sentence was spelled correctly or not. :-)
May 11, 2023: Me: I never have any time to do any of the things because of how busy life is. 😭 Also me: Every spring finds time to watch 45 hours of playoff hockey …
May 9, 2023: A reminder that Apple’s online store has a refurbished section where you can save money on hardware that comes with a 1 year warranty and is like new. …
May 9, 2023: It’s not just you: Apple’s Weather app isn’t working again for some people.
May 9, 2023: The fact that Apple is releasing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad now bodes really well for the iPad as a platform. I can’t imagine they’d do the …
May 8, 2023: Electricity is pretty cool until it gets too hot. Dryer randomly started smoking. Luckily we caught it in time before it got worse.
May 6, 2023: God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday May 6, 2023.
May 6, 2023: A cool thing I discovered is that the audio repair tool I use has a bug where if the hard drive runs out of space, it just repairs part of the file …
May 6, 2023: It really is magical when I can speak into the Watch on my wrist and music will start playing on my van’s speakers via bluetooth from my iPhone. But …
May 5, 2023: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, 2023 - ★★★★ Amazing film to mark end of the trilogy, the end of the MCU road for much of the cast, and director James Gunn's move to DC. I can't believe it's …
Apr 30, 2023: Finished reading: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Apr 22, 2023: Ghosted, 2023 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday April 22, 2023.
Apr 21, 2023: See How They Run, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday April 21, 2023.
Apr 16, 2023: Napoleon Dynamite, 2004 - ★★★ This hasn’t aged as well as I thought it would have. The pacing and editing feels forced and awkward, and not always in a funny way like it did …
Apr 14, 2023: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday April 14, 2023.
Apr 10, 2023: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Monday April 10, 2023.
Apr 6, 2023: Finished reading: The Julian Chapter: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio 📚
Apr 1, 2023: Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - ★★★★½ Watched on Saturday April 1, 2023.
Mar 27, 2023: Apple Podcasts (iOS / iPadOS, and macOS versions released today) is getting some new features today.
Mar 27, 2023: Upvote x2: Apple passwords deserve an app
Mar 27, 2023: What website should I visit today?
Mar 25, 2023: Inception, 2010 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday March 25, 2023.
Mar 25, 2023: Tall Girl, 2019 - ★½ Watched on Saturday March 25, 2023.
Mar 25, 2023: 💜 Now here’s the secret: good reading is messy reading.
Mar 17, 2023: Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, 2023 - ★★★★½ Watched on Friday March 17, 2023.
Mar 11, 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★★½ Watched on Saturday March 11, 2023.
Mar 9, 2023: A reminder that Dear Reader is on Apple Arcade. It’s a very chill reading “game” that combines elements of grammar, spelling, and classic literature …
Mar 7, 2023: If the yellow iPhone can be a business write-off, surely the Playdate can be as well? 🍋😂
Mar 7, 2023: Did anybody have GarageBand for Mac as a possible security hole in 2023 on their macOS bingo card?
Mar 7, 2023: The trick to making sure your family doesn’t use your profile to watch their shows, is to always switch away from your profile when you leave the TV. …
Mar 7, 2023: Well crap. Now I have to upgrade my iPhone. 😉 www.macstories.net/news/appl… 🍋
Mar 3, 2023: I played a bunch of Osmos back in the day. Cool to see it coming to Apple Arcade soon.
Mar 2, 2023: Promising Young Woman, 2020 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday March 2, 2023.
Mar 1, 2023: Pixelmator Pro continues to be such a great value for the money. $50CAD - aka a couple months of an Adobe subscription - for an image editing app that …
Feb 27, 2023: Begun, the character limit wars have! Today we’re making the next big change to how the timeline works: we’re “rounding up” the character limit to …
Feb 24, 2023: Dumb and Dumber, 1994 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday July 14, 1995.
Feb 22, 2023: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023 - ★★★½ Watched on Wednesday February 22, 2023.
Feb 17, 2023: Editing / listening to a small software as a service company trying to navigate sales tax around the world makes me want to never sell anything on the …
Feb 17, 2023: 10 macOS Tips to Make Your Life Easier 10 quick macOS tips that once you start using should make the time you spend on your Mac a more effortless …
Feb 15, 2023: ✏️ Make Updating Software Fun Again
Feb 4, 2023: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2022 - ★★★★½ Watched on Saturday February 4, 2023.
Feb 2, 2023: The family Mac mini has been bit by this bug where macOS perpetually tells you about Background Items Added, and I thought maybe it was a Rogue Amoeba …
Feb 2, 2023: Dockhunt is the kind of web + Mac nerdy stuff I love - sharing the tooling or metadata on your day in front of your computer.
Jan 28, 2023: Nothing quite like checking your credit card statements to motivate you to send out invoices for your solo business. 😆😱
Jan 28, 2023: From +2C to feels like -35C in a couple days. No wonder my head feels all discombobulated.
Jan 28, 2023: Is upgrading your wifi router from the stock internet provider version worth the $ these days?
Jan 27, 2023: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★★½ Watched on Friday January 27, 2023.
Jan 26, 2023: How has it been 3 years since I published this how to record a podcast with Audio Hijack tutorial? What is time even? Watching it and seeing …
Jan 25, 2023: 📝 Twitter’s Points are Made Up
Jan 21, 2023: Slumberland, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday January 21, 2023.
Jan 14, 2023: Strange World, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday January 14, 2023.
Jan 11, 2023: I dig tools like Descript for editing - but I feel like I’ve stared at audio this way for long enough that I can almost see the words as I’m editing. …
Jan 10, 2023: This is so dumb. But still laughing. Winter’s Back - parody of Sexyback.
Jan 9, 2023: I’m awful at goal setting in longer term situations. I know my business is at a plateau, and it’s fine, but beyond some sort of capitalist “get more …
Jan 8, 2023: No video game has held on with our kids like Minecraft has. Oldest to youngest can still dip in and lose hours to the game, having fun, exploring new …
Jan 6, 2023: How Spider-Verse Is Leading the Shift Away from “The Pixar Look” - I was pleasantly surprised that the new Puss in Boots movie incorporates elements …
Jan 6, 2023: Standup: I made coffee. It isn’t very good. But I’ll keep drinking it because I’m too cheap and lazy to start over. I’m learning about Wilco while …
Jan 6, 2023: Die Hard, 1988 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday January 5, 2023.
Jan 5, 2023: Travel to #Sinaloa State, including #Mazatlan, not currently recommended due to violence there over El Chapo’s son apparently being arrested. More …
Jan 5, 2023: I fired up Twitter to figure out how I wanted to remove past tweets and archive my account, only to be connected via a recommendation to a potential …
Jan 4, 2023: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, 2011 - ★★★★ Watched on Wednesday January 4, 2023.
Jan 4, 2023: Happy old fashioned happy hour to those celebrating. AMA while I edit this podcast. ngl.link/lemonpodc…
Jan 4, 2023: Finished reading: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman 📚
Jan 2, 2023: A new tradition I’m starting this year: doing my 🍋 business’ accounting catch up for the previous year while watching the World Junior Hockey …
Jan 2, 2023: I’m motivating myself to get back into work brain (slowly) by tackling month end invoicing (Hello Jan 2nd!) while simultaneously shopping for a new TV …
Jan 2, 2023: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman is deceptively intense. I’m half way through and there’s a ticking bomb just beneath the top level story waiting to …
Jan 2, 2023: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★★½ Watched on Sunday January 1, 2023.
Jan 2, 2023: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday December 31, 2022.
Jan 1, 2023: Today in “Why is my #FinalCutPro playback so terrible?” - a reminder to choose “Proxy Preferred” in your viewer if you’ve gone to the trouble of …
Jan 1, 2023: Almost every time I start a new project in #FinalCutPro, I have to reference this Larry Jordan article on Optimize vs. Proxy Media. Something about …
Jan 1, 2023: Empathy for 2023.
Dec 31, 2022: New Year’s Eve plans in emoji form: 🛷☕️ 🐠 📹 🛍️ 🍕🎉🙏🏻 🍿🙀 ⏰💃🏽🕺
Dec 29, 2022: Station Eleven - the miniseries on HBO only came out a year ago. Somehow it feels way longer. Might be worth a rewatch as we confront the end of …
Dec 29, 2022: If you’re having issues adding a HomePod mini to your Home app, or inviting someone new, make sure everyone in your Home is updated to iOS 16.2 / …
Dec 28, 2022: I’ve reached peak “I need to get a snowblower” and it’s only December. 😪
Dec 27, 2022: Klaus, 2019 - ★★★★ Watched on Tuesday December 27, 2022.
Dec 26, 2022: Happy Old Fashioned to all who celebrate.
Dec 26, 2022: Finished reading: Surrender by Bono 📚
Dec 26, 2022: Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday December 25, 2022.
Dec 25, 2022: Bad Sisters, Ted Lasso, and more free to watch right now until Jan 3. 9to5mac.com/2022/12/2…
Dec 25, 2022: Merry Christmas. 📱
Dec 23, 2022: Getting charged $29 because a credit card we attempted to use a credit card that we have maxed out feels like punching your customers in the face. A …
Dec 23, 2022: ✏️ New Blog Post: Weather Strip for iOS. Trying out a new weather app as my default to see if it helps us survive winter.
Dec 23, 2022: Who has a brand new iPhone 7+ in 2022? Are they still for sale?? No I don’t want to trade the thing I’m selling. I want to sell it. To get $. To pay …
Dec 22, 2022: The Santa Clause 2, 2002 - ★★½ The 2000s were such a weird time for movies.
Dec 22, 2022: It’s -28C, feels like -40C. This happens every winter around here, but it’s still a bit nuts.
Dec 22, 2022: ✏️ New blog post: Riffing on MacStories Best Apps of 2022 awards. 🎶
Dec 22, 2022: I love selling things on Facebook marketplace. 🤦♂️
Dec 21, 2022: Currently reading: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman 📚
Dec 21, 2022: I’ve got 5 more Arc browser invites if you want to check it out. I dig it as a nice Chromium alternative.
Dec 20, 2022: ✏️ New blog post: Shovelling the Driveway Takes Time ❄️
Dec 19, 2022: There’s always a beautiful day a week out in winter. I’ll believe that +1 when I see it.
Dec 19, 2022: I love when I achieve my Watch’s move goal while doing something completely unhealthy. Tonight it was while reaching for another handful of chips to …
Dec 19, 2022: Blogging about computer buying decision paralysis. Still don’t know what to do, but at least I wrote a blog post? #Apple
Dec 19, 2022: A quick reminder to myself: No, I could not survive with a 512GB hard drive no matter how much I’d like to save $$ on a refurb Mac Studio.
Dec 19, 2022: Changing hearts and lives over here on my random YouTube page. 😆🤲🏻
Dec 19, 2022: A fun little project for the holiday break perhaps: Archive your tweets with Tweetback. Zack Leatherman with the nerdy fun, turning it up to 11(ty) …
Dec 18, 2022: IMHO it’s always a more interesting final game if one team gets a goal early. Except as I’m typing this, Argentina scored their second goal. …
Dec 17, 2022: AI Manga me.
Dec 16, 2022: Noelle, 2019 - ★★★ Watched on Friday December 16, 2022.
Dec 16, 2022: Breaking my attempt to avoid trailers for movies I already know I want to see and watched the Barbie trailer. Glad to see it really doesn’t ruin …
Dec 15, 2022: I’m a sucker for year in review from apps - especially if they aren’t music based: Raycast Wrapped 2022.
Dec 15, 2022: In preparation for Sunday’s World Cup ⚽ final, check out the highlights of France vs Argentina from 2018. No spoilers ;) but it finished 4-3 so …
Dec 15, 2022: My Watch has noticed a change in my activity levels from last month when I was in Mazatlan and 25C to now being home in -20C. Weird. 😆 🥶
Dec 14, 2022: I knew hockey was popular around here, but until we put a kid in minor hockey, I had no idea how many indoor rinks there are in Saskatoon. 3 months in …
Dec 13, 2022: Since updating to macOS Ventura, I’ve noticed that macOS must keep pinging periodically for an iPhone nearby that it can use with the Continuity …
Dec 13, 2022: I love the storylines almost more than the actual World Cup matches. ⚽️
Dec 12, 2022: Figuring out some new recording gear. 😜 🥅
Dec 12, 2022: TIL at church this weekend: David Crowder’s house was used as Kevin Bacon’s home for the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas’ special.
Dec 12, 2022: If you want to make it seem like you shovelled a lot more snow than you did, just take a pic for a very low angle so the perspective is all wonky. 💪🏽 …
Dec 11, 2022: The name of my new podcast.
Dec 10, 2022: The Grinch, 2018 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday December 10, 2022.
Dec 10, 2022: Currently practicing how to get comfortable in hockey rink seats while my kid practices. 🏒
Dec 10, 2022: Love that @manton spent the time updating Microblog to support alt text when cross-posting to Twitter.
Dec 10, 2022: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday December 8, 2022.
Dec 9, 2022: Well guess it’s time to upgrade to Ventura so I can check this thing out. I’d ordered it so long ago, I completely forgot about it. 😆
Dec 9, 2022: When an inexperienced, overconfident, defensive, insecure man in leadership spins everyone in some wackadoodle direction, I think of all the time and …
Dec 8, 2022: Catching up on Andor.
Dec 7, 2022: After the last couple of days with temperatures down near where hell freezes over, I can’t tell you how excited I am to sit in a small town hockey …
Dec 7, 2022: Sometimes you buy the right version of hardware, and sometimes you buy the hardware that funds the proper version of the hardware. I bought the 2nd …
Dec 6, 2022: “Feels like -42C” 🥶 (-43F)
Dec 6, 2022: When Descript gets it wrong, but it feels so right.
Dec 5, 2022: A reminder that “slippery slopes” are a logical fallacy. And just because something has happened in the past doesn’t guarantee that it’ll play out the …
Dec 4, 2022: It’s “get updated on all the things in the new chapter of #Fortnite” time of year.
Dec 4, 2022: ‘Noggin time.
Dec 3, 2022: “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” Maya Angelou
Dec 2, 2022: My youngest asked me if there was a way to record the computer screen while they design a new house in Roblox. I grinned and said I have a YouTube …
Dec 2, 2022: Moving Google Maps to a subfolder instead of a subdomain is sleazy, but also brilliant in an evil kind of way.
Dec 2, 2022: If you don’t ask for the bill in a Bluey voice, are you really asking for the bill?
Dec 2, 2022: Matt Haughey wrote a How to move from Twitter to Mastodon tutorial for the non-nerds among us.
Dec 1, 2022: Why didn’t anyone tell me there was so much snow in Saskatoon?! 🥶 ❄️ Jack-we-have-to-go-back.gif
Nov 30, 2022: In case you haven’t heard - flying is awful these days. Airports are actually awful. Flying is generally fine. 🥱
Nov 30, 2022: Things that are better in Mazatlan than in Saskatoon: Watching Mexico score a goal in the World Cup, no snow to shovel, watching Coco, warm weather …
Nov 30, 2022: Finished reading: The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
Nov 29, 2022: Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday November 28, 2022.
Nov 26, 2022: My parents are being convinced of the merits of IPTV by a family friend - I know nothing. Is it legit or some sort of hack being peddled as an above …
Nov 19, 2022: Coco, 2017 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday November 19, 2022.
Nov 19, 2022: Finished reading: Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells 📚
Nov 17, 2022: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2022 - ★★★★½ Watched on Thursday November 17, 2022.
Nov 12, 2022: I have so many articles about Twitter & tech stuff in my reading queue that are all out of date already - and they’re only from last week. 😆
Nov 12, 2022: Colds, flus, RSV, COVID all floating around a lot. All of my kid’s class’s are missing kids constantly. Related: People coughing without even covering …
Nov 10, 2022: If you need an audio timeline cleanse, please go to the 46:10 mark in this episode of The Goodstuff Morning Show and listen to the creative genius …
Nov 10, 2022: I wasn’t prepared for the amount of notification / email overload I’d be getting from an app called Edsby as a parent. If there’s a checkbox for …
Nov 10, 2022: I’m really happy everyone else is enjoying Andor. I’ve just realized I’m 4 episodes behind somehow - I’ve been letting the rest of my family drive the …
Nov 9, 2022: When one of your client’s says your name is “Lemon Podcasting” on their fairly large podcast, it’s maybe worth it to go grab the domain name just in …
Nov 8, 2022: Currently reading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚
Nov 8, 2022: This morning I sat across from Yann Martel while we waited for our vehicles to be equipped for winter and I wanted to ask him if the next time he was …
Nov 7, 2022: Later this month two client’s shows I edit, ShopTalk Show and Syntax, both hit the 540 episode mark in the same week. Purely random - and not at all a …
Nov 7, 2022: Some number of people are tired of Twitter. Don’t take it personally if you’re not. They might all come back. Don’t gloat. Who cares if it’s Twitter, …
Nov 7, 2022: I’m not saying it’s for sure related, but it’s awfully suspicious that our garage door and our fridge were working just fine before El0n bought …
Nov 6, 2022: Enola Holmes 2, 2022 - ★★★★ “That was one of my favorite movies ever.” - my kid.
Nov 6, 2022: Apologies to anyone I’m supposed to meet with this week as I’m in a time zone vortex where we don’t do anything with our clocks ever. Which is great. …
Nov 6, 2022: Has anyone been out in the city this morning? How are the roads? #yxe
Nov 5, 2022: Should my garage door spring thingy (technical term) look like that? Or is that the reason our garage door is opening so slowly these days?
Nov 5, 2022: Why do all the rinks in #yxe have no cell connection? What am I supposed to do - watch my kid?! 😝
Nov 5, 2022: I want to help people use geeky things like Mastodon if they want to learn - but now that it’s snowing for real, first I have to winterize our trailer …
Nov 4, 2022: I’m here for a song that works as well with 50,000 people singing along, or stripped down to nothing more than a cello, harp, and light percussion. …
Nov 4, 2022: Up, 2009 - ★★★★½ Watched on Friday November 4, 2022.
Nov 4, 2022: My kid at supper: “Well at least when you were a kid you didn’t have to deal with Elon Musk.” 😆
Nov 4, 2022: Apple appreciation GIF: How smooth the animation is in Logic Pro when zooming in and out of a track. It feels extra buttery when using a Magic …
Nov 4, 2022: Well “Axeyard” - if that is indeed your real name - I didn’t need your comment. Have the day you deserve.
Nov 3, 2022: Heads up to anyone using my Logic Pro marker to Markdown TimeJump converter Pen - the latest version of Logic Pro v10.7.5 released this week breaks it …
Nov 2, 2022: Even if they didn’t already have the best UI for adding podcast episode details - trust me, I add and update a lot of podcast episodes - Transistor’s …
Nov 2, 2022: Took me almost 4 hours of snoozing the notification, but I finally called and booked a haircut. Now where’s my cookie?
Nov 1, 2022: Framed #235 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf
Nov 1, 2022: I realize this makes me more of a slave to the Apple iCloud service, but I’m loving the Hide My Email feature for signing up to online services or …
Nov 1, 2022: Is Substack still the devil it was earlier this year? I can’t tell anymore because a lot of writers I follow are setting up on Substack as a possible …
Nov 1, 2022: Ice, Ice, Baby There’s a lot of sounds, besides the obvious one of people talking, that gets picked up by microphones and I get to hear while I’m editing podcasts. …
Nov 1, 2022: I hate how searching for things, like the origins of the phrase “if anyone is not hungry for justice, it may be because they are too full of …
Oct 31, 2022: Maybe for Halloween I’ll go as the podcaster who upgraded to Ventura too quickly?
Oct 31, 2022: I really can’t tell you how thrilling it’s been to have a dude with no idea what’s he’s doing, or any ability to admit when he’s wrong, ruin my church …
Oct 31, 2022: Got the notification that our Apple One bundle pricing is going up from $33.95CAD to $37.95CAD starting end of November. I get that it’s complicated, …
Oct 30, 2022: Is anyone using custom email domain that Apple offers for iCloud+ users? Seems like a great way to break some of the Gmail dependency I’ve got.
Oct 30, 2022: Ghostbusters: Afterlife, 2021 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday October 30, 2022.
Oct 30, 2022: A week after what we thought was the last kid to get the cold that ran through our family, youngest is out with something today. Is this a new thing? …
Oct 29, 2022: Fantastic Four, 2005 - ★★½ Watched on Saturday October 29, 2022.
Oct 29, 2022: Hockey morning in Canada. 🏒
Oct 29, 2022: Hockey morning in Canada
Oct 28, 2022: Got boosted and flu-shot’d today and the nurse basically prepped me for 2-3 days of being down and out. 😳 “Hope you’ve got a lot of movies to watch or …
Oct 28, 2022: On days like today when the techbros try to ruin everything for profit, I like to reread @davatron5000’s excellent short story, The Mammoth.
Oct 28, 2022: If I’m honest, I also sometimes feel like everybody is a sexy baby and I’m a monster on the hill.
Oct 28, 2022: Lots of great brain nuggets in Monday’s episode of ShopTalk Show with @samkap - but this section right here is particularly great. You’ll have to …
Oct 28, 2022: Instagram so thirsty for engagement and jealous of those 44 billion Musk bucks.
Oct 27, 2022: Not enjoying having to spend the day dealing with a dead minivan battery. On the upside, it died in our garage so we could charge it enough to be able …
Oct 27, 2022: This is definitely an ice cof. Tastes like it’s missing the d, f, f, and e.
Oct 27, 2022: I also agree in spirit with @gruber’s assessment of Musk’s letter to advertisers, but it seems naïve to think that Musk is suddenly going to be a …
Oct 27, 2022: Co-signing @manton’s post Dear Elon Musk. I know there won’t be a mass exodus from Twitter until there’s a new place to land with enough people to …
Oct 26, 2022: TikTok has a Live Studio app (Windows only) for live streaming out to TikTok - enabling gamers to stream. You need to have 1,000 followers or more to …
Oct 26, 2022: Found via @veronique - yet another really simple blogging site called Bear blog with a delightful tagline of “Publish something awesome with your bear …
Oct 26, 2022: There’s a great country style cover of Tayler Swift’s Anti-Hero from an artist on TikTok that, if I want to pre-save it on Apple Music, I have to …
Oct 26, 2022: If you’ve been using Warp for a macOS terminal, check for an update before updating to Ventura. Nothing critical but will save you having to manually …
Oct 26, 2022: MacRumors writers: “How do we illustrate that a rumored 16” iPad is bigger than the current 12.9" iPad Pro?" MacRumors graphic department: “On it!”
Oct 25, 2022: This is a friend’s new puppy here to cleanse the timeline.
Oct 24, 2022: Randomly have a UVFSService using up your Intel Mac’s CPU? Try removing Bootcamp - if you use it - from Spotlight’s search. (System Pref > Spotlight > …
Oct 24, 2022: From when they announce OS updates back at WWDC to when it’s finally released, I often forget why I should bother upgrading. The main reason I’m …
Oct 24, 2022: Another series that makes the monthly price of Apple TV+ worth it is Bad Sisters. Lovely Irish accents, lovely Irish scenery, Eve Hewson (daughter of …
Oct 24, 2022: Idea for a new add-on service I could offer clients: check your breathing rhythm to make sure you’re getting enough oxygen. (This is @stolinski’s …
Oct 24, 2022: If you do nothing else different this week, please tell someone why you want to talk when you ask them to give you a call or have a meeting. A simple …
Oct 24, 2022: ❄️
Oct 23, 2022: Ghostbusters, 2016 - ★★★ Watched on Sunday October 22, 2017.
Oct 22, 2022: More like “BeReal unflattering with that wide angle lens”
Oct 22, 2022: Still mowing the lawn and nearing the end of October. Not bad. ☀️
Oct 21, 2022: I would buy one of those new yellow iPads, except I still have buyer’s guilt over Breath of the Wild and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater both sitting …
Oct 21, 2022: I woke up to 26 tabs of the same thing. I think my @elgato Stream Deck is trying to phone home?
Oct 20, 2022: Nice update to Camo enabling Wi-Fi connections to your iOS device that you’re using as a webcam or Zoom camera. Super easy to add a new device as a …
Oct 20, 2022: Well surely that sign wasn’t directed at me?!
Oct 19, 2022: Maybe the fact that the new base model iPad doesn’t support Stage Manager is actually a feature and not a limitation?
Oct 19, 2022: I always know it’s going to be a great recording to edit when this is the accompanying screenshot from a client. 😱 😂
Oct 18, 2022: You technically can’t really see your dog run away for days in Saskatchewan, but there’s some justification for it as an unofficial tagline for our …
Oct 18, 2022: I need to build one of those single purpose websites called “WasChrisAbleToWearShortsToday” dot biz or something that I just update each day with yes …
Oct 18, 2022: Releasing a yellow colour in the new iPad models is just trolling me Apple. 🍋
Oct 18, 2022: Loved reading “statuesque goth-goddess” Kelly and “an Actual Poet with the best hair in the fandom” PJ’s grappling with being a fan of an artist like …
Oct 17, 2022: Going to have to reconcile Jimmy McNulty and Ayesha going up against Dolores Umbridge and the High Sparrow in The Crown Season 5. (Actors can only …
Oct 16, 2022: Finished reading: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells 📚
Oct 15, 2022: Something I think about everyday is that when people write “…and this is something I think about everyday” that they don’t actually think about that …
Oct 15, 2022: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday October 15, 2022.
Oct 15, 2022: Luckiest Girl Alive, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday October 15, 2022.
Oct 15, 2022: I think my glasses, which I’ve glued three or four times already, might not be long for this world.
Oct 14, 2022: Dark / light themed websites are so 2022. Get with the times and offer multiple themes like Domino’s delivery tracker.
Oct 13, 2022: Posting a pic for Micro.blog’s A Day in the Life 2022. Needing a shower, shave, and a haircut but at least I have coffee and headphones?
Oct 13, 2022: I don’t know how a modern city + a modern app developer would end up with a parking system app that looks like the one Saskatoon is now using. Using …
Oct 13, 2022: Oooh new Marie Poulin video just dropped. (Just nerding out about new Notion tips the same way I would if my fav band released a single. 😂)
Oct 12, 2022: Despite being a rough recording, this stripped down cello and drums version of Vertigo from Bono’s book tour has me very curious what the band is …
Oct 12, 2022: Despite the last 5 (10, 15, 25?) years, I still am surprised when I hear how singularly focused on an issue (i.e. abortion) some Christians are. …
Oct 12, 2022: I enjoy reading @benthompson’s optimism for VR tech’s future, I just wish it wasn’t the soul sucking Facebook that was behind it who, based on …
Oct 11, 2022: Been seeing a lot of these kinds of spiders this fall in our house. Siri Photo ID thinks Wolf Spider or Nursery Spider. 🤷♂️
Oct 11, 2022: Step 1: Open Final Cut Pro project. Step 2: Wait for external hard drive to spin up. Step 3: While waiting, get distracted on Twitter. Step 4: …
Oct 11, 2022: Inclusive name input on web forms is important - not just for kindness to individuals, but also for better financial performance. Plus you don’t want …
Oct 8, 2022: Finished reading: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells 📚
Oct 8, 2022: Each time we share the story of what went down at my wife’s job over the last 9 months, I can’t help but think how messed up it all was by one man and …
Oct 6, 2022: The sound designers for House of the Dragon really didn’t need to go to the level of authenticity they did with the splatters of various liquids …
Oct 6, 2022: Breaking My macOS Rule of Not Replacing Default Mac Apps with Raycast and Warp I think it might have been John Siracusa who I first heard articulate this out loud on a podcast: Don’t replace macOS built in functionality if you …
Oct 5, 2022: Just used Audio Hijack to grab some audio from another podcast to share as a clip. Still the best audio pocketknife style app to have in your kit.
Oct 5, 2022: On behalf of podcast and audio editors everywhere - please try to eliminate the phrase “I was gonna say…” when you start speaking after cross talk or …
Oct 5, 2022: Sure would like to be able to leave my 2019 MBP overnight without it having to restart randomly. It feels like a 8-Core i9 processor with 16GB of RAM …
Oct 4, 2022: Good morning and happy Tuesday. ☕️
Oct 3, 2022: I have newfound respect for the weather that’s decided, in spite of everything else being awful, to be sunny and hot into October. 🌞
Oct 3, 2022: What is that little icon thing and why can’t I make it go away?!?
Oct 2, 2022: Lightyear, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday October 1, 2022.
Oct 1, 2022: We Were Children, 2012 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday September 30, 2022.
Oct 1, 2022: It’s a Clone Wars kind of morning. We’re still way back in season 2. So. Much. Stuff.
Sep 30, 2022: To hear two stories of residential school abuse in Canada, We Were Children is on Amazon Prime or CBC Gem.
Sep 30, 2022: “What would Jesus do in a steampunk style” #midjourney adventures.
Sep 29, 2022: Today in Midjourney experiments: “Tim Cook and Bono announcing a new iPhone in steampunk style.”
Sep 29, 2022: Oooh definitely looking forward to editing today’s Learn with Jason episode.
Sep 28, 2022: Don’t mistake hurt or anger about injustice and lies for bitterness. We spent a day or two in bitterness, but washed it off easily enough. Fighting …
Sep 28, 2022: Started reading: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells 📚
Sep 28, 2022: Great summary of how YouTube has changed for creators who’ve been on the platform for a decade or more by @anthonystauffer, guitar teacher …
Sep 27, 2022: Editing a client’s episode talking about “emotional safety in the workplace”, and it’s so jarring to hear people speak with maturity about a topic …
Sep 27, 2022: Finished reading: George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones 📚
Sep 22, 2022: My 2019 16" Intel MBP is back on this crap again. Restarting randomly. Blergh.
Sep 22, 2022: It’s day three and still no sign of the lid for the coffee grinder container that my daughter “put away somewhere”. We’ve had to use plastic wrap - …
Sep 22, 2022: Pixelmator Pro continues to be among the best app purchases I made years ago - v3.0 adds templates, document colors, and social media presets.
Sep 21, 2022: “Suspicion often creates what it suspects.” C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters.
Sep 21, 2022: Blokus (3rd place 🏆 )
Sep 21, 2022: Finished reading: The Stone Child by David A. Robertson 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sep 21, 2022: We were playing some music on my record player just the other day, and my kids were asking about how a record player actually works. As usual, …
Sep 21, 2022: Logic Pro is an amazing app for editing podcasts, but the fact that it’s loop library doesn’t have a good AirHorn FX audio clip is a travesty.
Sep 21, 2022: Getting my crown 👑 today. ( 🦷 style only unfortunately.)
Sep 20, 2022: Now.
Sep 20, 2022: The question being asked: “Why was this specific person chosen over other people when you have to make cuts and layoffs?” Church elders: “Hey watcha …
Sep 19, 2022: I love having a video recording of my consulting or potential client calls. Fire up a Riverside studio and meet a client there, take notes in Notion, …
Sep 18, 2022: Happy 20th anniversary to Rogue Amoeba! Their apps have been instrumental in my podcasting & video production journey. Can’t wait to see what they do …
Sep 18, 2022: “I love how there’s a lot more girls in this season.” - my daughter while we check out the new #Fortnite season skins.
Sep 17, 2022: Kid in hockey for the first time at 12yo thoughts: hockey doesn’t seem very newb friendly. There’s definitely an assumption you’ve been playing since …
Sep 16, 2022: Sometimes Riverside accidentally captures my mood perfectly. 🫠
Sep 14, 2022: This could be great for people wanting forum style conversations, but with the ease of setting up a new Discord server - Discord launching forum …
Sep 14, 2022: Reason #203 why I love the internet: A tutorial video I published over 3 years ago was helpful to someone today. I didn’t make ad revenue, sell a …
Sep 13, 2022: I’ve been following along with Micro.blog’s development from the beginning and I appreciate the slow and steady improvements being made to the …
Sep 13, 2022: Con: Coughing just enough to not be able to fall asleep. Plus: Catching up on Barry.
Sep 12, 2022: iOS 16 could’ve implemented this one setting for Photos and I would’ve said it’s a worthwhile upgrade. I’d never considered just using Shortcuts to …
Sep 12, 2022: One downside to running the public iOS beta all summer is it makes the today’s official release day a lot less exciting. At least there’s the annual …
Sep 11, 2022: Pinocchio, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Saturday September 10, 2022.
Sep 11, 2022: Life Is Beautiful, 1997 - ★★★★½ Watched on Wednesday December 10, 1997.
Sep 10, 2022: Skip the new Pinocchio movie. Woof. Wooden performances all around.
Sep 10, 2022: Elvis, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday September 9, 2022.
Sep 9, 2022: How much Google juice boost does a link in a moderately popular podcast’s episode notes actually mean in 2022? Setting aside usability or listener …
Sep 9, 2022: When everything else in the world feels messed up, I can always count on the @ShopTalkShow banjo intro at the start of my edit to put me in a better …
Sep 8, 2022: I’m not trying to judge anyone, but a whole bunch of people are going to go from “I’m so busy I can’t keep up” to suddenly finding time to watch 7,000 …
Sep 7, 2022: Unlocking a Bit of My Trauma Brain 11 months ago my father-in-law died unexpectedly. I’ve recognized that my body is processing the shock and trauma of current events in my life in very …
Sep 6, 2022: Happy 11th birthday to my 🍋 baby, @lemonproduction. You’ve grown from “what am I even doing?”, through the awkward early years of “WordPress, PHP, and …
Sep 4, 2022: It’s 35C and my kids are making hot tea for a snack. 🫠
Sep 3, 2022: Uncharted, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Friday September 2, 2022.
Sep 1, 2022: Companies that sponsor podcasts - you know how much you love it when users of your product pay for a year in advance so you have one transaction …
Aug 31, 2022: Since it’s the last day before school begins, today I’ll be using the excellent ScoreKeeper iOS app to track how many times each of my kids interrupts …
Aug 31, 2022: As weird as it is to think about when you’re in the midst of it, one day you’ll change your kid’s diaper or fold up their toddler clothes for the last …
Aug 31, 2022: Currently reading: George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones 📚
Aug 30, 2022: Today’s to do list. 🎧
Aug 29, 2022: Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aug 29, 2022: Where on earth did Snapchat get the idea to add a dual camera photo at the same time? I just can’t BeReal it’s happening!?! (Also pour one out for the …
Aug 26, 2022: It’s all quiet across the lake tonight except for the boat blasting something about “slappa dat ass”, and the group arguing about Moe handing out …
Aug 26, 2022: Editing podcasts takes twice as long when your kids are watching “2,230 things you missed during She-Hulk” videos from @NewRockstars. 😂
Aug 25, 2022: Nodding along to Matt’s podcast guide for 2022. I may swap out a few apps for different brands, but otherwise it’s great how easy it is to podcast in …
Aug 25, 2022: It seems fitting that on a client’s podcast episode called “Learning from Our Mistakes”, I would make a mistake while exporting and have to re-do it. …
Aug 24, 2022: A couple times we’ve had a person in their 20s-ish come to our door saying “I’m not here to sell you anything or whatever, just wondering if you have …
Aug 24, 2022: Finished reading: Fight Night by Miriam Toews 📚 I had a tough time staying interested in it, but the ending was a beautiful payoff to the story.
Aug 24, 2022: Any parents out there using an app for managing allowance / chores for kids? What do you recommend?
Aug 23, 2022: Would you rather have your kids mindlessly flipping through YouTube / Reels / Tiktoks, or playing Monopoly non-stop?
Aug 23, 2022: It’s don’t buy an iPhone season right now. Remind your friends and family to hold off until the next stuff is announced, and the previously new stuff …
Aug 22, 2022: Is there anything more pleasing to the ears than a gas powered lawn trimmer? I’m just glad I’m not recording anything today. 🙉
Aug 22, 2022: I really hope this rumor of Apple throwing ads into Apple Maps stays a rumor. It feels gross that they’d do it for the cash, but it might be something …
Aug 21, 2022: What’s a good .mobi ebook reader app for iOS?
Aug 18, 2022: Another upvote for this 20 Thousand Hertz episode on the sound design of Ted Lasso during the pandemic. So good for fans of the show and/or sound …
Aug 18, 2022: Currently trying to balance the right amount of “yeah”, “right”, “sure” from the co-host while the other person is talking on a two person podcast …
Aug 18, 2022: Bullet Train, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday August 16, 2022.
Aug 17, 2022: Any small business owners out there have advice for hiring an employee vs sub-contractor, and especially as it relates to a Canadian solo business …
Aug 16, 2022: Thanks to the way one of my clients publishes their episodes, I know that this represents my birthday. 1660910400400 (No, it’s not today.)
Aug 16, 2022: Speaking of ghouls, not a good look Apple.
Aug 15, 2022: Everything's Gonna Be Alright From today’s issue of Craig Mod’s Seven days of walking Tokyo popup newsletter, a message to the younger version of himself when he first arrived in …
Aug 14, 2022: Finished reading: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells 📚
Aug 14, 2022: Barry is such a great show. That’s it.
Aug 13, 2022: Today I organized the wood. Tonight I’m organizing the ibuprofen.
Aug 13, 2022: Meanwhile on tiktok. #ketchupacondimemt?
Aug 13, 2022: If, like me, you’ve only been seeing southern skies in Saskatoon and wondering what the storm warning is all about, might want to look out a north …
Aug 13, 2022: It’s hot out (30C / 86F) which is a great time to trim the beard outside.
Aug 13, 2022: Batman Begins, 2005 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday August 12, 2022.
Aug 12, 2022: I’m going for a walk - anybody need anything while I’m out?
Aug 12, 2022: Each week when working in Final Cut Pro I inch closer and closer to that “continue” button on a Mac Studio, but then something happens like “a kid …
Aug 11, 2022: I have amazing clients who do include me in helping create their thing as much as they can, but there’s something about creating your own thing and …
Aug 11, 2022: Somehow this full set of the Harry Potter audiobooks made it past the crack legal team at Apple Podcasts. 😂 🧙♂️
Aug 10, 2022: I love that the internet has enabled someone like @craigmod to be able to do what he does. I don’t totally know what it is exactly that he does, but I …
Aug 10, 2022: Yet another reason I ❤️ @TransistorFM for podcast hosting - they now support importing ID3v2 chapter markers to episodes.
Aug 10, 2022: Unfortunately it’s on the cutting room floor, but “Survey Mon-kay” almost became the new “MailKimp”. 😝
Aug 10, 2022: Waiting for a coffee order. ☕️ 👣
Aug 9, 2022: Hey Siri reset the “number of days since Chris has had a jump scare from one of his kids standing next to him while he’s editing a podcast” counter to …
Aug 9, 2022: One thing I’ve really enjoyed about Only Murders in the Building (Hulu in the US, Disney+ here in Canada is how they incorporate podcasting as part of …
Aug 9, 2022: My hope for 2022 is that adults would take responsibility for their actions that have hurt or marginalized people - even if it wasn’t their intent. …
Aug 8, 2022: If you want to have a repeating task in Notion, do you still have to use a third party app to trigger that via the API? i.e. every Friday put a task …
Aug 8, 2022: I’ve talked with friends and family who all watch Netflix content regularly, and nobody has ever been aware that Netflix has games as part of their …
Aug 8, 2022: Luck, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday August 6, 2022.
Aug 7, 2022: I can’t put my finger on why - and tbh I fell asleep for parts of it because of packing up from camping tiredness - but Lucky felt a little like what …
Aug 5, 2022: Finished reading: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aug 4, 2022: “It’s so nice out. We should be doing something.” Me, reading a book and drinking coffee: “This is the something I want to do on a nice day.” 📕 ☕️
Aug 4, 2022: I’ve got at least $10 plus some Canadian Tire money to whichever developers build a “submit internet speeds at campsite 180” database for Canadian …
Aug 3, 2022: Currently reading: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good 📚
Aug 3, 2022: Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aug 2, 2022: Currently reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚
Aug 1, 2022: Finished reading: The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel 📚
Jul 30, 2022: Jurassic Park, 1993 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday July 29, 2022.
Jul 29, 2022: Summer parenting: “Alright if you want pizza and a movie tonight, you need to write a song with at least 2 instruments and be about mom. You’ve got 2 …
Jul 29, 2022: Shot (1 year later) Chaser
Jul 29, 2022: Before you decide you want to build a business around editing and producing podcasts, you need to really think about how much you enjoy listening to …
Jul 28, 2022: I resonate with a lot of Tsh Oxenreider’s reasoning behind her annual break from the internet. I wish my work didn’t so easily pull me online, but it …
Jul 28, 2022: 👋 to any @syntaxfm listeners hearing my voice for the first time today, and I’m sorry for spelling Kubbeernnettes, JavaZcript, and SuperBass wrong. 😉
Jul 27, 2022: Achievements For Podcast Hosting Launched at Transistor.fm This was one of my first feature requests to @mijustin and @TransistorFM from way back when I first started using them to host podcasts. Love that …
Jul 27, 2022: Nope, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Tuesday July 26, 2022.
Jul 27, 2022: Feedbin, the RSS reader / sync app I use, announced a new podcast app. V1 looks to be fairly basic, but it syncs via my already existing @Feedbin …
Jul 26, 2022: How much money do you think Landmark Cinema makes per year by turning their otherwise simple website into trash because of Google Ads?
Jul 26, 2022: While at the cabin this weekend, I randomly turned on Bob’s Burgers S01E01 for the first time and the family laughed more than we have collectively at …
Jul 26, 2022: I really enjoy putting something topical in the Notion page header image location, but this is by far my favorite one that makes me smile every time I …
Jul 26, 2022: I’m sure DuckDNS is a perfectly safe and normal Government of Canada domain they use for totally legit purposes.
Jul 25, 2022: The Sea Beast, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday July 24, 2022.
Jul 24, 2022: Harry Potter Munchkin morning.
Jul 22, 2022: Where the Crawdads Sing, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Thursday July 21, 2022.
Jul 22, 2022: Anyone who’s read “Where the Crawdads Sing” and seen the movie - is it worth going back to read the book after seeing the movie?
Jul 21, 2022: Me: Business goals? Well I’d like to be successful enough that I could play Breath of the Wild on a live stream once a week so people could help me …
Jul 19, 2022: Late night draft: Instagram and other apps have destroyed the word Story which used to be something passed on down generations, and is now a thing …
Jul 19, 2022: BeReal is obviously passing some sort of inflection point where other apps are now referencing it for marketing.
Jul 19, 2022: Why did Apple’s weather app do an amazing job of notifying me about rain while we were out in the middle of nowhere, Saskatchewan, but now that I’m in …
Jul 19, 2022: I dig how Descript uses their own tool to display employee testimonials on their careers page.
Jul 19, 2022: Instagram is Dead - Round 4? Via Manton, Om Malick writes Instagram is Dead: What’s left is a constantly mutating product that copies features from whatever popular service — …
Jul 19, 2022: Not much more rock ‘n roll than listening to Welcome to the Jungle while driving through the suburbs in a minivan. 🤘🏽
Jul 18, 2022: This tiktok is listing some of the things tiktok (and other apps no doubt) track about users and mentions “keystroke patterns or rhythms” as a way to …
Jul 18, 2022: This is your reminder that Apple’s Clips for iOS is vastly underrated as a video editor, especially if you’re editing for Instagram, TikTok, or other …
Jul 18, 2022: I don’t know if this was the exact recipe we used, but this is your reminder to make yourself some strawberry and peach sangria, especially if you …
Jul 18, 2022: Thor: Love and Thunder, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Sunday July 17, 2022.
Jul 17, 2022: Always feels good when you close a fitness ring while reaching for some chips. #applewatch
Jul 17, 2022: House of Gucci, 2021 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday July 16, 2022.
Jul 16, 2022: The 2022 M2 MacBook Air From Gruber’s review: Basically, there are millions of people whose computing needs would be more than met by the MacBook Air but who feel like they …
Jul 16, 2022: He’s a 5 but he comes from a family of conflict avoiders.
Jul 15, 2022: Craig Got COVID Speaking of Craig Mod, the latest issue of his newsletter #69 (nice!) chronicles him catching COVID (not nice!). This summary should tell you …
Jul 15, 2022: What If One Day the Podcasts Went Silent? Justin Duke, creator of the great Buttondown email newsletter app, has an “About This Site” for his personal blog that’s a great read and motivator …
Jul 15, 2022: Finished reading: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod 📚
Jul 14, 2022: A Culture of Defensive Leadership My friend Tim Neufeld, from my @U2 fan site and podcast days, posted his thoughts about an article published in the MB Herald detailing the mess that …
Jul 14, 2022: Holy crap the “ronny/lily” episode of Barry is a trip.
Jul 14, 2022: Pizza or poutine? That is the question I ask myself almost daily.
Jul 14, 2022: The Whitney Plantation Museum Matt Haughey wrote a Twitter thread today referencing his experience back in 2018 of visiting the Whitney Museum in New Orleans: I’d read Just Mercy, …
Jul 14, 2022: My trusty @Netlify mug that has served me well for years of almost daily use has got a crack in it. 😢 It’s just enough that I can feel it pull apart …
Jul 13, 2022: If I showed up at your house with this, would you (a) drink it or (b) throw it back in my face?
Jul 13, 2022: iOS 16 beta is great so far EXCEPT for the fact that they changed the position of where “paste” is when you copy/paste text. Or am I remembering it …
Jul 13, 2022: Anecdotally speaking if you’re outside for 30 minutes, it’ll take you ~45m to cool off enough to be able to wear headphones to edit podcasts. 55 …
Jul 12, 2022: Everything is made up and the points don’t matter. Just a reminder that social media posts and stories don’t represent the entirety of a person you follow on social media. It’s a glimpse into part of …
Jul 12, 2022: #StrangerThings spoiler: I completely missed this 3 inch rule call back at the end. 😢
Jul 12, 2022: Dynamic Ad Insertion Issues Continue If you’re outside the US, you’re no doubt familiar with podcast hosts saying “we’ll be right back…” and expecting an advert only for nothing to happen …
Jul 12, 2022: My plan of hiding my wife’s laptop power cord worked perfectly. ☕️😋
Jul 12, 2022: In running a business, it’s still so easy to get distracted by how I compare to other podcast production / editing companies. I look at a portfolio …
Jul 11, 2022: iOS 16’s ability to press and copy a person or thing from a photo is pretty magical. Even my new profile pic works pretty well. 😆
Jul 11, 2022: Peanut butter and honey sandwiches + a smoothie are my lunch plans for the summer. Any questions?
Jul 11, 2022: Re: public iOS 16 beta. If I’m not worried about my iPhone having bugs but am about macOS, can I install the iOS public beta to mess around with it …
Jul 11, 2022: Instagram now allows you to stream with 3rd party apps (OBS, Ecamm, etc.) to Instagram Live. Details here.
Jul 10, 2022: It was just going to be nachos for supper. But then I remembered we had leftover pulled pork in the fridge so now it’s fancy nachos. 🤤
Jul 10, 2022: #StrangerThings is the only show in recent memory that makes me want to do that quick run up the stairs after turning all the lights out because …
Jul 9, 2022: How cute is this mini cast iron skillet?
Jul 9, 2022: Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday July 9, 2022.
Jul 9, 2022: Hairdid booked for Monday. For now we spike it to let my head breath in the summer heat. 😆
Jul 9, 2022: Thor: Love and Thunder, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday July 8, 2022.
Jul 8, 2022: Obi-Wan Kenobi, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Wednesday June 29, 2022.
Jul 8, 2022: Happy “still have internet access but might have a tornado” hour is here. And one way or another, I’m going to see Thor: Love and Thunder tonight.
Jul 8, 2022: You keep using that word… “A moist unstable air mass in the vicinity of a low pressure system currently situated over the North Battleford region…”
Jul 8, 2022: As a Christian kid of the late 80’s / early 90’s, I love reading the non-religious perspective on things like skateboarding in church parking lots. 😆
Jul 8, 2022: Podcasts + Music in App Experience I’m so glad Apple decided to split apart Podcasts into it’s own app. Initially I was skeptical that it made sense - why not have podcasts in the same …
Jul 8, 2022: This is my kind of gamification of fitness: You Can Walk the Oregon Trail With Apple Arcade App Update That Integrates With Health App
Jul 8, 2022: Lossless Audio or Video Editing I’ve long been a fan of Rogue Amoeba’s Fission software for lossless audio editing. I use it if I forget to cut off the end of a podcast’s MP3 file, …
Jul 8, 2022: Accidentally switched our thermostat into “heat only” mode this morning - which was a great way to test out how long I could keep my podcast editing …
Jul 7, 2022: After camping for 6 nights, I’ll never take my shower or bed for granted again. 😆
Jul 7, 2022: Cars 3, 2017 - ★★★★ Watched on Wednesday July 6, 2022.
Jul 7, 2022: I don’t understand how churches aren’t working on the Truth and Reconciliation recommendations in their own way. Mine included.
Jul 5, 2022: Why is the harmonic timeless, but synths and keyboards fall in and out of fashion so quickly? (Don’t mind me - just going through Tom Petty’s music.)
Jul 5, 2022: Back to the Future Part III, 1990 - ★★★ Watched on Monday July 4, 2022.
Jul 5, 2022: Back to the Future Part II, 1989 - ★★★ Watched on Sunday July 3, 2022.
Jul 5, 2022: Is there a way to turn off Twitter for iOS’ takeover of audio whenever you switch to the app? It’s annoying to have to restart music just because you …
Jun 30, 2022: How are you so creative, smart, and funny? It’s exhausting trying to keep up with you all.
Jun 30, 2022: I’m really enjoying messing around with Raycast - a bit of a Spotlight / Alfred replacement? Something about it really clicks with my brain in a way …
Jun 30, 2022: One person humbles themselves for the long term good of an org and the community, meanwhile another person sucks the org dry of $$ and will be gone in …
Jun 30, 2022: Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2021 - ★★★★½ Watched on Wednesday June 29, 2022.
Jun 29, 2022: Any Eleventy (or JSON?) nerds help a newb out one last time? I want to create a JSON file off my Eleventy based blog including the full content of …
Jun 29, 2022: IMHO $0.02CAD - stop hunting for a Twitter alternative and set yourself up an account (and blog if you want) with Micro.blog. Cross post to Twitter …
Jun 29, 2022: If you haven’t already heard about the latest from the 🇺🇸 hearings, the summary on today’s The Daily is worth a listen just to understand how bonkers …
Jun 28, 2022: Think Less, Blog More I, and others, have been motivated to blog more simply because of Chris Coyier’s recent uptick of posts on his own blog. I appreciate his recent post …
Jun 27, 2022: How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad Related to the earlier post on data security on your iOS device, Gruber has this tip on temporarily disabling Face ID or Touch ID and using a passcode …
Jun 27, 2022: Quick Health and Data Security Check It’s always a good idea to periodically check and see what apps have access to your data, health or otherwise. Via Gruber: HealthKit was designed from …
Jun 24, 2022: Managed to thread the needle of getting the tent trailer to the mechanic’s and back for a spring check up without getting rained on today which I …
Jun 24, 2022: iOS tip: If you’re taking a photo you’re going to be sharing with someone else, make sure to shout loudly while taking the photo on the off chance …
Jun 23, 2022: I unlocked something in my brain today about how I could use @Microblog to post and publish my blog at, ditching the Eleventy / Netlify combo which is …
Jun 23, 2022: HandMirror for macOS is one of those apps I would totally use a lot, if I could just remember to actually use it when I need it. (It’s a menubar app …
Jun 23, 2022: M1 Mac vs M2 Mac I don’t understand why I’d buy an M1 based Mac Studio when the M2 based MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are out right now - so clearly there’s going to be …
Jun 20, 2022: Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday June 19, 2022.
Jun 18, 2022: Back to the Future, 1985 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday June 17, 2022.
Jun 5, 2022: Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020 - ★★★ Watched on Tuesday August 4, 2020.
May 24, 2022: Some days while running my own business I wish I had a manager to tell me what to do next. Especially when I have a head cold that makes everything …
May 23, 2022: Couldn’t sleep at 4am this morning so decided to watch the first 4 episodes of Barry. I’m a sucker for dark humor at the best times - even more so …
May 23, 2022: Venom: Let There Be Carnage, 2021 - ★★★½ Watched on Sunday May 22, 2022.
May 22, 2022: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday May 21, 2022.
May 17, 2022: Some days I feel like I need a smoke break after getting my family out the door to school / work in the morning. “I don’t have a lunch!” “I forgot to …
May 15, 2022: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday May 14, 2022.
May 10, 2022: Ralph Breaks the Internet, 2018 - ★★★★ Watched on Monday December 10, 2018.
May 10, 2022: Sing 2, 2021 - ★★★½ Watched on Tuesday December 28, 2021.
May 10, 2022: Death on the Nile, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Monday May 9, 2022.
May 8, 2022: Moon Knight, 2022 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday May 7, 2022.
May 6, 2022: The Hunt, 2020 - ★★★ Watched on Thursday May 5, 2022.
Apr 29, 2022: If I buy an M1 Mac, does Final Cut Pro support adding chapter markers without stopping the playback like Logic Pro can? Because it’d be nice to be …
Apr 29, 2022: “The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you. Like a demon from a folktale, the kind that only gains power when you invite it …
Apr 23, 2022: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, 2017 - ★★★½ Watched on Friday April 22, 2022.
Apr 22, 2022: Glad to see Ecamm Live finally getting it’s due from macOS nerds. It’s really come into it’s own as a fully featured macOS live streaming / screen …
Apr 22, 2022: The Batman, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Thursday April 21, 2022.
Apr 11, 2022: Uncharted, 2022 - ★★½ Watched on Sunday April 10, 2022.
Apr 8, 2022: Good morning specifically to those of you who take a crust for the team. The rest of your family “hates the crust pieces”. You’re sacrifice everything …
Apr 7, 2022: At a restaurant last night we mentioned to our server that the fries were really good. He replied with “Yeah I know! They’re from Costco!” 😂
Apr 6, 2022: Chris Coyier’s travel blog makes me never want to travel again. 😳 (Kids + passports is a stressful combo.)
Apr 4, 2022: Seems like WordPress (dot com)’s pricing changes could be a way to point people who want to “just blog” to sign up for Tumblr?
Apr 4, 2022: Deleting a contact card in Contacts app on macOS brings up a spinning beach ball for 5 seconds on my 2019 16" MBP. Guess it’s time to upgrade to an M1 …
Apr 1, 2022: waxy.org/2022/03/i…
Mar 31, 2022: From getting it on 2 to not getting it all. The mighty have fallen. 😆 Wordle 285 X/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟧⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟧⬛🟧⬛ ⬛🟧🟧🟧⬛ ⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧 ⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧
Mar 31, 2022: Watched episode one of Moon Knight on Disney+. I think I’m going to like the series. Feels like it’s got Wandavision mind games vibes with a bit more …
Mar 27, 2022: The Eyes of Tammy Faye, 2021 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday March 26, 2022.
Mar 27, 2022: X-Men: Days of Future Past, 2014 - ★★★½ Watched on Saturday March 26, 2022.
Mar 27, 2022: Sometimes a word falls out of my fingers and I don’t know where it came from. Wordle 281 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟦⬛⬛⬛🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Mar 26, 2022: The Batman, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Friday March 25, 2022.
Mar 26, 2022: The Afterparty on AppleTV+ is a great who-dunnit series to watch with some hilarious comedic moments throughout. tv.apple.com/ca/show/t…
Mar 25, 2022: Had to share this one. Wordle 279 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Mar 23, 2022: I don’t know how we undo this, but it’s bonkers to me that Uber drivers are on the hook for rising gas prices instead of Uber itself. What a stupid …
Mar 21, 2022: Currently reading: American Carnage by Tim Alberta 📚
Mar 21, 2022: It’s the best Fortnite season of all: no building! 😆
Mar 20, 2022: Turning Red, 2022 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday March 19, 2022.
Mar 18, 2022: So how long until we have a touch screen version of an Apple Studio Display if iOS 15.4 is running on the current Apple Studio Display?
Mar 17, 2022: After watching this video review of the Mac Studio and Studio Display, I can’t find a good reason to justify a Mac Studio for my podcast editing work …
Mar 17, 2022: Woof. That’s a bad headline for a $1,599USD monitor.
Mar 11, 2022: Monument Valley 2 is now on Apple Arcade. Such a beautiful puzzler. #monumentvalley2 bit.ly/mv2-game
Mar 11, 2022: It’s supposed to go from -40C to +4C in 2 days here in Saskatoon. I’m not an engineer but I feel like that’s a lot of stress on roads, buildings, and …
Mar 10, 2022: Too busy to record a video right now, but Ecamm Live’s v3.10 Shortcuts integration looks pretty slick - along with all the other new features they’ve …
Mar 10, 2022: .@GangofYouths “angel in realtime” album is one of the best albums - start to finish - I’ve heard in a long time. It helps to have this Stereogum …
Mar 9, 2022: The Batman, 2022 - ★★★★ It reminded me a lot of the style of the Batman: Arkham video game series, which I consider to be a huge compliment. I wish I'd watched less of the …
Mar 9, 2022: The Batman review: It reminded me a lot of the style of the Batman: Arkham video game series, which I consider to be a huge compliment. I wish I’d …
Mar 8, 2022: My anxiety with owning an old camper nailed by @davatron5000: It cost us ~$500 in maintenance every time we wanted to take it out and that caused me …
Feb 26, 2022: X-Men: First Class, 2011 - ★★★ Watched on Friday February 25, 2022.
Feb 23, 2022: Having 4 out of 5 letters for 4 guesses is almost more stressful than when you have one or two. Wordle 249 6/6 ⬛🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Feb 23, 2022: It’s always a good game of Skip-Bo when my daughter shuffles. 😆
Feb 22, 2022: New music has arrived from @gangofyouths you say?
Feb 22, 2022: Wordle 248 2/6 ⬛🟦⬛🟦⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 Gonna go buy a lottery ticket. 😲
Feb 20, 2022: Does a M1 MacBook Air really feel that much faster than a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro?
Feb 20, 2022: High School Musical, 2006 - ★★½ Watched on Saturday February 19, 2022.
Feb 18, 2022: Dan Rather on Elon Musk’s use of Nazi imagery: Even those with unlimited funds can be bankrupt of decency.
Feb 17, 2022: Shout it louder for anyone who sees only money in a podcasting monopoly @gruber: There’s no need for a YouTube-of-audio. Podcasts aren’t a format that …
Feb 17, 2022: Robin Rendle on The Sandwich: I really don’t care how well we know flexbox or how many beautiful typefaces we’ve made, because if we’re an asshole …
Feb 14, 2022: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2009 - ★★★ Watched on Sunday February 13, 2022.
Feb 14, 2022: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006 - ★★★ Watched on Saturday February 12, 2022.
Feb 11, 2022: The Tinder Swindler, 2022 - ★★★ Watched on Friday February 11, 2022.
Feb 8, 2022: Got a good one on this year’s “blind date with a book” from the library. 📚
Feb 6, 2022: Avengers: Endgame, 2019 - ★★★★ Watched on Saturday February 5, 2022.
Jan 29, 2022: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003 - ★★★ Watched on Friday January 28, 2022.
Jan 25, 2022: This whole -40C in the morning with a high of 0 later which actually turns out to be 11pm is the worst.
Jan 22, 2022: Anxiously counting down the hours until we eat some pizza for supper, and then I fall asleep on the couch while watching a movie as a family.
Jan 22, 2022: I have yet to find an accountant for my business that understands what Stripe is. I’m trying to support local, but all the local small business …
Jan 20, 2022: Hank Green on the history of video monetization and why TikTok sucks at it.
Jan 18, 2022: I’m exporting an hour long 1080p video, transcoding a different 720p video, and editing a podcast all at the same time - and I’m still whining about …
Jan 18, 2022: This is the first time this winter that the big snowfall / blowing snow didn’t end up on our driveway. I was all set for another -30C shovel time, but …
Jan 17, 2022: Starting up new client projects is always way more overwhelming in my head than in reality. I wish I could trick my brain into skipping ahead 2-3 …
Jan 16, 2022: We took down our Xmas directions as our family seems to be coming out of COVID. Feels like a fresh start for 2022 - 2 weeks after everyone else.
Jan 15, 2022: We’ve been playing a lot of Song Pop Party on Apple Arcade because it works so well for multiplayer. Even integrates with Game Center for invites like …
Jan 14, 2022: Just when I think I’ve got something all figured out in Final Cut Pro, it goes and breaks my brain about whatever convention I thought should work. …
Jan 6, 2022: Resisting the dad urge to go and buy a snowblower so I can clear driveways and sidewalks on our street.
Jan 6, 2022: One thing Wordle has taught me is how few 5 letter words I actually know once you get rid of pluralized words.
Jan 5, 2022: “Make TVs TVs Again” Amen.
Jan 5, 2022: I know it’s a cliche to complain about how big video games are and how long it takes just to be able to play them… but over 100GB of data just to …
Jan 5, 2022: New year, same MacBook Pro randomly not able to do anything until I reboot it issue. 😪
Jan 4, 2022: Did a ton of people get Wingspan for Xmas? Seems like I’m hearing about it a bunch on social media and IRL.
Jan 3, 2022: Ooh fun new feature coming to Descript for video podcasters.
Jan 3, 2022: Nice chonky flakes falling outside today In #yxe. If Apple was based somewhere in Canada, it’d be amazing at capturing snowflakes in video or …
Dec 30, 2021: It’s worth watching the “Under the Helmet” mini documentary on Disney+ before starting in to The Book of Boba Fett to learn more about the origin …
Dec 30, 2021: It’s Heartlake City Movie Theatre building time.
Dec 26, 2021: “What is it?” #drawful2
Dec 25, 2021: My collection of Star Wars heads grew by one. Just in time for the new #BobaFett series I suppose.
Dec 22, 2021: It’s kind of wild to me that as I wrap up (mostly) work for 2021, I’m finishing it off by editing ShopTalk Show - the podcast that I started this …
Dec 22, 2021: My wife bought me a Ted Lasso @stan_chow print for Xmas and it’s the best thing ever. Pics to come once I’ve got it framed.
Dec 22, 2021: Apparently it’s “bring your new LEGO set to your parent’s work” day today. 😆
Dec 21, 2021: Possible Villainous printing issue? Forums seem to indicate it should be a “2” and not blank in the power symbol.
Dec 20, 2021: Notion nerds: Is there a way to search every table database in my Notion documents for a checkbox y/n? (i.e. show me every entry in every database …
Dec 20, 2021: How am I doing? Thanks for asking. I’m stress eating omelettes at the moment. I’m not sure what that means exactly but it’s tasty.
Dec 20, 2021: I love my HomePod mini and if it wasn’t out of the budget, would be the only gift I gave anyone I had to buy for this season. :) I can’t imagine using …
Dec 19, 2021: Thanks to Hawkeye our kids are obsessed with trying to flick poker chips around the house at each other. 🎯 😂
Dec 19, 2021: Frozen Sundays are for reading silly mystery novels like John Grisham’s Camino Winds 📚
Dec 18, 2021: 😐
Dec 18, 2021: Just a reminder that if you’re selling an iPhone or iPad because Santa brought you a new one, Apple has a much simpler process for preparing it for …
Dec 17, 2021: Do I need the full install of Xcode on macOS if all I do is a few things like use Homebrew and break my Eleventy blog every so often? (I rely mainly …
Dec 16, 2021: My kids: “Can we get picked up after school? It’s so cold!” Me, bundled up in sweatpants and a hoodie because even the inside is cold today: “When I …
Dec 15, 2021: Well I’m glad things seem to be slowing down for the holidays. 😆
Dec 14, 2021: Heads up that the Logic Pro 10.7.2 update that came out last week seems to have some sort of plugin compatibility bug. Some projects are fine, others …
Dec 13, 2021: Discord added an option to turn on a “Preview video” before the video is turned on for a call.
Dec 10, 2021: Important notes from a client: “Maybe Chris can mix in the sound but like I open TikTok and all I hear is ‘Ehh eff your life! Joe Byron! Eff your …
Dec 10, 2021: Import Minecraft (Java edition) security update.
Dec 10, 2021: Another Xmas miracle: Apple Music now available on Google Nest speakers in more countries - Canada included.
Dec 9, 2021: The one thing that would get me to be supportive of web3 / crypto is if syncing of transactions between various banks and my invoicing system just …
Dec 9, 2021: I hope all of you can someday know the joy of hearing a teenager shout at their friends while chasing down a llama together in Fortnite.
Dec 8, 2021: Finally our long international nightmare of not having a chronological timeline on Instagram might be over in 2022.
Dec 8, 2021: Whether you’re a business, solo contractor, or work for someone else - how often do you go through all the monthly / annual service you’re paying for …
Dec 7, 2021: You periodic reminder to any freelancers and solo business owners that you need to actually invoice your clients if you want to get paid for your …
Dec 6, 2021: Micro.blog introduces email newsletter feature in a very Micro blog kind of way. I dig it.
Dec 6, 2021: A good sign that it’s time to do the laundry is the fact that the only shirt I have left to wear is for an expired domain name idea that now likely …
Dec 4, 2021: I’m saddened by how much of search is driven by commerce. I also want businesses - especially small businesses - to be able to sell their products and …
Dec 2, 2021: What's New in macOS Monterey I always forget what’s new in macOS. This list is a good starter on what I’m forgetting to use.
Dec 2, 2021: Using Micro.Blog to Tweet Without Having to Get Sucked Into Twitter Drama While reading @davatron5000’s recent Vibe Check, he mentions uninstalling Twitter for iOS as a way of avoiding temptation to get pulled in to the …
Jun 9, 2021: I’ve been enjoying Mini Motorways so much, I recorded a very dry play through review type thing and posted it on YouTube.
Jun 9, 2021: Mini Motorways has been my favourite Apple Arcade game to pass the time lately.
Mar 22, 2021: Robin Rendle on Blogging and Dimly Lit Bars “Oh, to be called a bastard by a writer you admire whilst hovering over drinks in a dimly lit bar.” robinrendle.com/notes/blo…
Feb 28, 2021: tap tap is this still on?
Oct 4, 2018: Halloween Movies to Watch w/Kids A list of movies that we want to watch on or around Halloween. Coraline Ghostbusters Ghostbusters
Feb 28, 2018: Way Too Seriously Movies reviewed by the podcast Way Too Seriously: Way Too Seriously is a weekly podcast in which Jan and Paul Moffett talk about the implicit biases, …
Sep 10, 2016: Older Films I Want to Remember to Watch Thief The Last Detail
Jan 9, 2015: Music Documentaries to Watch I enjoy watching music docs. Looking for suggestions. Canadian Netflix availability is a priority since we're cheap but will consider options …
Oct 17, 2013: Halloween Favs Movies that I have watched or want to watch around Halloween. Shaun of the Dead Hot Fuzz The World's End Dawn of the Dead Army of Darkness Dawn of the …
Feb 11, 2013: Movies to Watch with My Kids A list of movies I'd like to watch with my kids - (in 2013 they'll be 6/3/1 so obviously not watching these right away necessarily). How to Train Your …
Dec 16, 2011: Roger Ebert's Best Films of 2011 Via blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/12/the_best_films_of_2011.html Just missing Kinyarwanda that's not in Letterboxd right now. A Separation Shame The …