Microposts
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” 😆
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 “is it worth it to skip a stop at McD’s on my way home today?”
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 why I’m glad Stephen Robles puts out videos reminding me about cool Shortcuts.
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 biggest man-baby which is saying a lot.
😆 Your TikTok China assigned spy saying goodbye. (TikTok link, duh.)
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 Security
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 “Instagram”—but I like that a site like MacStories can choose to stop using them as a result.
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 website with generic sales pitch video are why I hate sales and don’t trust anybody. 😆
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 video filmed in Ireland, at Slane Castle, a few days after Bono’s dad passed away just adds to energy of the crowd and band.
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 wildfires in California. Hope friends out west stay safe and are able to evacuate if needed, with minimal damage to homes.
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 waters.
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 felt like a weird way to frame a world still reverberating from the effects of a global pandemic we haven’t dealt with.
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 read it via RSS or social media link - you type or have a bookmark to go directly to it?
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 of reliability.
Is wiping and reinstalling still a good option to try and reset an iPhone or is this just the state of iOS apps in 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 videos + podcasting post. YouTube is rewarding video “podcasts” right now, but they’ll change. Then what do you do?
👏 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 the biggest lowlight in the last five years of the industry.”
