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 beautiful moment to take into the holidays.

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 called A Man Called Otto.

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 with a coffee in the morning.

Before > After of Neville Dogbottom’s first adventures in getting his hairdid.

A shaggy flooofy looking golden doodle sits on a chair in front of a Christmas tree. A much cleaner cut golden doodle sits on the floor. Feels like he could be a different dog.

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 will thank me for the extra insulation when it’s -40C in January.)

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?” and I never know how to answer it because… it depends. And sometimes it changes from week to week. But nobody really wants a annual statement. 😉

Nice.

Screenshot showing my Raycast Wrapped 2024 edition. Raycast is a quick launcher app for macOS, so the stats are nerdy and show things like how many times I’ve launched the app (1,643), total actions (3,177), most active hour (11am) and more.

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.

Excited to show Neville Dogbottom all our fav Xmas movies for the first time. Tonight: The Grinch (2018)

Screenshot of The Grinch (2018) animated movie.

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A can of Amber Ale rebellion brewery beer sits in snow.

I upgraded from AirPods Pro (2nd gen) to AirPods 4 w/active noise cancellation only because my AirPods Pro started spitting static constantly. AMA!

TIL today: Ecamm Live (macOS live stream / recording app) can support 10 camera feeds?

Screenshot of Ecamm Live with 10 sources visible.

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 University of Saskatchewan Campus Computer Store.

Screenshot showing App Store updates with Apple Remote Desktop having an update for macoS Sequoi compatibility

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. 😆

Screenshot of Logic Pro tracks labelled “robot voices” “Characters voices” and “Elno Moosk”

Still kind of surprised that Apple is fine with this for negative temperatures on their nightstand mode for iPhone.

The nightstand mode on an iPhone but the temperature reads -2… indicating the temp got cut off.

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 my right hand is definitely 5 fingers with no visible thumb?

A AI generated version of me with headphones poorly placed on my head, 5 fingers + no visible thumbs, and a keyboard in front of me.

The Vinyl Cafe lives on in another generation thanks to my youngest’s teacher. 😊

Happy Apple Intelligence Day to Canada (and 5 other countries outside the US).

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 this quote at the end:

“The company is not currently profitable but aims to achieve that goal by the end of 2026.”

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 community to be able to move on from all this: WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction