Microposts
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A quick Riverside feature request: If Chris Coyier says the phrase “CSS tricks” in any form, automatically insert LeoWhistlingAndPointingAtTV.gif.
New blog post: Threads “Share as Image” Feature
The two apps that bring my $3,000 Mac Studio to a spinning beachball halt are not Final Cut Studio (4K+ multi-track editor) or Logic Pro (multi-track studio recording software), but Apple’s Passwords and Contacts app. 😆
Just a reminder to anyone registering their kid in Saskatoon minor hockey, registration fees go up at the end of June so save yourself a couple $$ and do it soon.
I just heard the phrase, describing a Trump economic advisor or something, as having “a thumbless grasp of economic trade” and that might just replace “he’s such a potato” as my favorite insult for idiot men who rise way above their pay grade.
Podcast / Notion idea for someone to build: Monitor the podcast’s RSS feed and when the episode comes out matching the title in Notion, adjust the status to “published”.
After watching Hamilton last night, we were talking with my daughter how differently Canada was founded in comparison to the United States—how so much war and fighting was at the root of American history. Not realizing the USA was literally bombing another country at that moment.
I used to love trying to figure the best plan and deal for getting a new iPhone. These days I’d rather stick with my iPhone 13 until it dies so I don’t have to try and figure out the best option available.
Have I gotten lazy or has buying a phone gotten too complicated?
I went to the downtown mall for the first time in what feels like a decade to get some clothes for my child’s graduation which doesn’t make sense how that’s happening already? I
feel like I’m cosplaying as a business person. I usually wear a shirt and pj pants to all my client meetings. 😝
I’m not sure what I was going to put here, but I kind of wish I would’ve finished this disgusting ring tone product on my Gumroad account way back when. 😆
If you’re seeing this, I’m live now on Twitch demoing recording and editing a podcast using Riverside with tim.
If you’re curious how it works to record and edit a podcast using a tool like Riverside, today I’m going to demo it… live on stream? Seems like a bad idea.
Join Tim and I in just under an hour on Twitch or YouTube to see how it goes.
The fact that half of the songs on the Singles original motion picture soundtrack aren’t available to play on Apple Music should break the heart of every gen-x / elder millennial. We are at the mercy of our tech overlords + lawyers if we don’t own vinyl, tape, or CDs. 😢

James Acaster is the perfect amount of chaos.
Begun (or ended?) the tv wars have as Netflix strikes a deal to be where French TV network TF1 live + on-demand content is shown.