I did a quick test of TikTok Live from my Mac Studio and it’s hilarious to think that my stream with “140 viewers” (only 2 or 3 of which actually stayed longer than 5 seconds) put me into the top 17% of LIVE creators on TikTok. 😆

Screenshot of TikTok Live analytics post-stream reading: “Your LIVE has ended. Aug 27 15:24 | Duration: 14m 4s You got more views than 83% of LIVE creators with a similar following”

I just published a new episode of my mini #podcast called “5 Quick Things: Braces, Selfie a Day, Summer Denial, Wednesday Binge, and Podcast Experiments”. 🎧

After you’ve had a listen, feel free to reply and add your thoughts to future episodes of the show.


For today’s #selfie, a reminder to drink water before, during, and after you attempt to record a podcast. Don’t want to get dry, raspy throat sounds. Unless you’re doing a dry, raspy throaty podcast I guess.

Selfie a day for a year, day 9, Aug 26, 2025 edition.

A man with glasses is drinking from a glass in a cozy room with a microphone nearby.

Someone’s using a very AI’d version of Prime Minster Mark Carney in their ad on YouTube.

A fairly obvious AI version of Prime Minister Mark Carney in an advert on YouTube for cafdaf.typeform.com

Now that event invites for the iPhone announcement have gone out, I updated to the iOS26 public beta. There’s going to be a whole lot of wtf from folks when the update hits their devices this fall.


This looks like a handy tool for moving from Spotify to Apple Music.


Today’s extreme close up #selfie comes from the always flattering change room at Mark’s (formerly known as Mark’s Work Wearhouse) while I was trying on a pair of pants.

Selfie a day for a year, day 8, Aug 25, 2025 edition.


I love the way Buttondown thinks deeply about the web: A newsletter-shaped-blog, or a blog-shaped-newsletter


Look I get why it might be attractive to have all your #podcasting eggs in one basket like this, but I really strongly advise against it based on past history of tech companies trying to be “the one”, only to have investors decide they need “the cash” more than they want to be “the one”.

Screenshot of a Riverside.fm splash advert reading “Host and publish your podcast directly in Riverside&10;No extra tools to manage (and pay for) downloads and uploads. Every paid plan includes hosting with an RSS feed, analytics, and publishing to Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and more. For now, hosting is available only for new podcasts that aren’t already hosted elsewhere, but stay tuned for more updates!”

☕️ + 🐶 (being teased relentlessly by birds this morning) + 🌞

For my #selfie a day for a year, day 7, Aug 24, 2025 edition.

A person relaxes on a porch with a mug, while a dog stands on the grassy lawn near a fence.