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 rendering proxy media.

Final Cut Pro screenshot showing that by clicking on the “View” menu in the preview window and then selecting “Proxy Preferred” you can improve playback performance.

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 the way they’re named doesn’t make sense in my brain.


Empathy for 2023.

It's hard to care about people.&10;Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing.&10;It requires us to accept that everyone else's lives are also going on the whole time.&10;We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.

New Year’s Eve plans in emoji form:

🛷☕️ 🐠 📹 🛍️ 🍕🎉🙏🏻 🍿🙀 ⏰💃🏽🕺


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 things we know and look towards the uncertain future.


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 / macOS Ventura first. A third iPhone user on our account that wasn’t involved or needed seemed to be the issue. 🤷‍♂️


I’ve reached peak “I need to get a snowblower” and it’s only December. 😪


Klaus, 2019 - ★★★★

Watched on Tuesday December 27, 2022.


Happy Old Fashioned to all who celebrate.

Top down view of a glass with ice and a alcoholic beverage in it.

Finished reading: Surrender by Bono 📚


Spirited, 2022 - ★★★★

Watched on Sunday December 25, 2022.


Bad Sisters, Ted Lasso, and more free to watch right now until Jan 3. 9to5mac.com/2022/12/2…


Merry Christmas. 📱

Photo of a Finder screen on macOS that reads “iPhone DFU mode”

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 computer takes 0.003 seconds to figure it out, and we get dinged $29? Woof.


✏️ New Blog Post: Weather Strip for iOS. Trying out a new weather app as my default to see if it helps us survive winter.


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 for Xmas. 😭

Marketplace convo asking “would you trade it for a new iPhone 7 256GB?”

The Santa Clause 2, 2002 - ★★½

The 2000s were such a weird time for movies.


It’s -28C, feels like -40C. This happens every winter around here, but it’s still a bit nuts.



I love selling things on Facebook marketplace. 🤦‍♂️

A conversation between me and a potential buyer where the buyer asks if it’s still available, then asks if “I’d take $160”, then quickly says “sorry I meant $150”, and then repeats again saying “would you take $150”.