Meh.

Selfie a day for a year, day 164, Jan 29, 2026 edition.

A bearded man wearing glasses and a t-shirt with text is taking a selfie indoors.

Why do these launch screens for Pages, Numbers, Keynote, etc. make me feel like I’m on a Windows computer?

A grayscale image of a person using a laptop displaying colorful graphs and data analytics is overlaid on a forest background, with a message about data collection and an option to continue.

Life goes by too quickly. One day you wake up and now you’re the parents The Tragically Hip were singing about.

A music player interface displays the song Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip with visible lyrics on the screen.

Just heard about another cool #music web app (via the ShopTalk Show D-d-d-d-d-discord) called Melt that collects your 25 most listened to tracks each month and builds a playlist for you. https://melt.fm/profile/ichris

More fun on the web like this please!

If all you’ve ever experienced is Spotify’s interface for uploading #podcast episodes, I hope some day you get to experience a proper podcast hosting company’s user interface and realize how much nicer it can be to prep your show each week.

Hairdid needed.

Selfie a day for a year, day 162, Jan 27, 2026 edition.

A person with glasses and a gray beard is looking at the camera with a curious expression, set against a softly blurred background.

New blog post: Shrinking Season 3 Trailer

Apple needs find the courage to remove the p0rn app formerly known as Twitter.

Somehow I’m just learning about Crucial Tracks now. It’s a social site where you get one post per day about a song you love or that’s impacted you. That’s the kind of social site I can get behind: I’m iChris over there.

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