Shipping new iMacs with 256GB of storage is a dick move. I get needing a low cost iMac, but the middle model should start at 512GB. It’s the equivalent of the 16GB iPhone Apple kept shipping for years.

It’d be hilarious if at Apple’s event tonight, Tim Cook came out in a John Hodgman “I’m a Mac” costume and announced that the iPhone 16 is being released today just to mess with everyone who bought an iPhone 15 a month ago.

Getting everyone else in my family out the door on a chilly Monday morning helps me appreciate my working from home business so much. My commute is sitting by the fire while sipping coffee until I decide to walk over to my office.

(Sorry if you’re reading this on a long, cold commute.)

Watched on Saturday October 28, 2023.

This is the right way to snooze tasks or todos. Apple’s Reminders options have been wrong for years. Fantastical gets it right.

Big 🏆 to whoever is on the AirPlay team at Apple. It may not be 100% perfect for everyone, but I’m always amazed that I can play a song from my phone and the audio stays in sync across a 7yo Sonos speaker, a 10yo AirPort Express, and a couple recent HomePod minis.

It’s a bit nutty out there. And by nutty I mean super icy and blizzardy.

I think Christians sometimes confuse singing in church for a Holy Spirit moment, when the act of doing something in unity with hundreds of other people is the thing you’re feeling.

Or maybe it’s that the Holy Spirit is in that brief moment of unity as well.

Co-signed: Apple, Please Just Let Me Use Digital Clocks

📝New blog post: My thoughts on Spotify as a vampire, sucking all the money out of podcasting.

Apparently U2’s new microsite for the space baby is powered by Astro. Love when my nerd world and my music world collide sometimes.

My new podcast is called “Who the heck is actually using Dropbox for signing documents” where I scour the globe trying to find anyone who wants Dropbox for anything besides syncing files.

📝 New blog post: Apple Increases Pricing on AppleTV+ / iCloud+

📝 New blog post: Why You Shouldn’t Get a PS5 Just to Play Spider-Man 2

Flu shot in the left arm, COVID vaccine in the right. Left was sore during the day. Right was more sore while trying to sleep. I guess what I’m saying is: Go get your vaccine / flu shots.

Waiting on my microchip installation so Trudeau can make me post government conspiracy content on tiktok.

We woke up to snow on the ground today. For the first time in a long time, I managed to get the winter tires on our van AND the sprinklers blown out before it snowed. I feel like I should buy a lottery ticket or something.

If a friend asks for a video screencast of what you meant in your feature suggestion for their app, do you also make sure to pinhole your webcam so that it looks like you’re a large foreheaded weirdo sending a video?

No? Just me?

Watched on Saturday October 21, 2023.

Related to the annoying lights on every electronic thing—the Eero 6+ pucks have a setting for each one that lets you decide if you want the status light on or not. It’s also interesting to see which devices connect to which puck in your house, it’s not always the nearest puck.

Every review of a bedside charging brick should state whether it has a light on it that can’t be turned off. If it does, the review should just read “nope”.

I’m restarting my newsletter again (again x 3), this time as a “Thoughts I Would’ve Tweeted if Elon Hadn’t Barfed on Twitter” weekly summary of things I find on the internet, podcasts I’ve enjoyed, and 280 character thoughts I would’ve tweeted. Sign up here 💌

I love that Buttondown lets you set a canonical URL for each newsletter you send out, that way you can have a blog post at your website with the same (or similar) content that gets the traffic when subscribers click for a web version.

What a coincidence that Apple’s movie also happens to be trending in Apple’s App Store.

If Twitter thinks paying $1 will deter bot makers on Twitter, clearly they’ve never been to a concert where someone’s paid over $300 to get so drunk they can’t remember where they are only to get thrown out after three songs.