I’m happy to see the rumors were true that John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO in September: Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026. The...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ I think you’ll like this picture of the world’s biggest and smallest Macs (an an original Macintosh) that Scott Knaster shared. [🔗 scottknaster.substack.com] 2️⃣ Robert Birming made a really cool calendar view for his Bear blog, so...
I love hearing about someone’s thoroughly considered argument for something that I’ve never given much thought to. It’s like pulling aside a curtain to discover there’s been a window with a gorgeous view behind it the whole time. Take, for instance, the order in which a burger’s ingredients should be stacked. I probably could have improvised my...
David Sparks blogs that companies whose leaders actually give a damn about the products are the ones worth watching: You could argue that’s unhealthy. Maybe it is. But there’s something about a CEO who feels physical pain when the product falls short. That energy flows downhill. When the person at the top cares that much, everyone else figures...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ “Badlands” by Mumford & Sons & Gracie Abrams 2️⃣ “Easier Gone” by Jason Aldean & Brittany Aldean 3️⃣ “Grace Kelly” by Piper.Ally 4️⃣ “Forever Start (Stripped)” by Ryan Nealon & Jillian Rossi 5️⃣ “FTS” by The Summer Set & Travie McCoy...
A lot has been said about Apple’s 50th anniversary. Stories shared. Favorites ranked. Contributions celebrated. A good time to look back. Image: Apple ⌘ But as I reflect on why we even care that a computer company has been around for five decades, I keep coming back to the fabled challenge that Steve Jobs gave to John Sculley as he tried to woo...
Sooo… I did a thing. I couldn’t help but be slightly dissatisfied by the clarity of my Studio Display XDR’s nano-texture display. It just made everything look a little less than Retina-quality. And for this price, I don’t want to have lingering regrets each time I use it. So, I ordered a second non-nano-texture version, banking on Apple’s...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ iWeb lives! Sort of. If you have an old Mac. But Corbin Davenport made an iWeb website just a few months ago and, honestly, it looks pretty awesome. [🔗 iweb.corbin.io] 2️⃣ Manton Reece shared a letter that his mother wrote to her...
Apple published this video to their Support channel on YouTube yesterday, and it motivated me to get this off my chest: Uninstalling apps on macOS is not as easy as it should be. Yes, I know, I know that you can just drag an app to the trash and technically it’s gone. That’s what Apple recommends doing in its video. But then why do are apps like...
The Mac Pro is no longer a product in Apple’s lineup. For a computer that has caused so much consternation over the years, its story can be told very succinctly. Stephen Hackett captured it all in one paragraph: The Mac Pro was introduced way back in 2008 as a replacement for the outgoing Power Mac G5. It had a good few years, then languished...
Just finished up a project that I’ve been meaning to get to for a year: bringing ADK Climb Club to the open web. We’ve had a landing page for a while, but all the info about our meetups was going out via Instagram and WhatsApp. But not everyone wants to use those apps, and I heard from them! So, I buckled down and imported all the old posts, and...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ That screamy sound you hear when peeling tape? It’s a ‘sonic whisper’ from tearing at twice the speed of sound! [🔗 sciencealert.com] 2️⃣ Craig Mod built the accounting software of his dreams, fitting his exact international needs, and...
The Verge’s headline sums up Mark Gurman’s latest report on Apple’s folding phone quite succinctly: ‘iPhone Fold rumor: iPad-like multitasking, but no iPad apps and no Face ID’ Though the updated layout could make multitasking easier, Gurman reports that the folding iPhone won’t run existing iPad apps. Still, Apple is reportedly trying to take...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Jose Munoz has a good tip for not getting sucked into doom-scrolling apps by Siri Suggestions in Search and the App Library: simply hide them from those areas. [🔗 josemunozmatos.com] 2️⃣ I love a good stats-based pitch. Herman...
Ricky Mondello, from the Apple Passwords team, shared a crucial hidden feature for saving arbitrary data in their app: [I]f anyone ever wants to save some non-password data in Passwords, but is annoyed by having to put a password in and see a useless “Password” row, use a password of “-”. Passwords will omit the password from AutoFill and hide...
Note: I drafted this back on December 4th, but never got around to posting it. Just this morning, I was thinking to myself, “I wonder what Lisa Jackson thinks about how cozy Tim Cook has gotten with the Trump administration?” Just a few hours later, we have a clue: she’s retiring. I don’t know that they’re related, but I think it’s telling that...
The premise of Netflix’s Famous Last Words is simply brilliant. From its announcement: What would you say if you knew it would be your last opportunity? New Netflix documentary interview series Famous Last Words asks some of the world’s cultural icons to do just that, recording in-depth, intimate interviews with the understanding that they’ll...
I’m on a flight to Vegas for New Year’s with only about 30 minutes left before touchdown, so let’s quick recap a few fitness-related goals I set out to achieve in 2025. Elevation Gain I have a friend who, a few years ago, set out to do 360,000 feet of elevation gain in a year. That seemed a big bite to chew, so I settled for 500 feet per day — or...
I’m not a ring guy. My parents had to cajole me into getting a class ring back in high school, telling me that it would be something that I would later regret if I didn’t get one. So I got one, tried wearing it, and ended up hating the feeling of it always spinning ’round my finger. And then I lost it in my bowling ball bag for like a year. I’ve...
My maternal grandmother, Laureen Ann Beck, passed away recently. We had a memorial service for her yesterday, filled with family and friends. Here are the reflections of her that I shared at the service. Grandma Beck was a wonderful woman. Whenever I think of her, the first thing that comes to mind is her warmth. The fullness of her laugh. The...
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also incorporated a Twitter-like social timeline that put short (title-less) and long (titled) posts on equal footing. In the years since its 2017 launch, Manton Reece — Micro.blog’s founder — has added a...
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also incorporated a Twitter-like social timeline that put short (title-less) and long (titled) posts on equal footing. In the years since its 2017 launch, Manton Reece — Micro.blog’s founder — has added a...
A weekly-ish list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Greg Morris points out some minor oddities in the recent Apple Event. I noticed a few of them myself, but not all. [🔗 gregmorris.co.uk] 2️⃣ Dr. Drang points out how the fitness trend suggestions in Apple’s fitness app aren’t so smart. I agree,...
The madness just got madder. ‘Apple TV+’ is now just ‘Apple TV’. I noticed something was off right away when I saw Apple’s streaming date announcement for F1: The Movie. They said the movie “will make its global streaming debut on Apple TV on Friday, December 12.” I caught the lack of the “+” immediately, and, knowing Apple doesn’t often make...
I enjoyed writing gut reactions to the product announcements live during the event, but here’s how things are shaping up for my apple.com shopping cart plans, given a little more time and consideration. Shocker, they’re fairly in line with my pre-event predictions. While the iPhone Air certainly has the thin/light/new appeal, the more I compare,...
AirPods Did they say foam tips for the new AirPods? Moving away from silicone tips? In-person live translation looks amazing. But you’ll need a newer iPhone for it to work, I’m sure. “Best-fitting AirPods ever” huh? Maybe they’re worth another shot. Finally, you can start workouts with just your iPhone! I wonder if it’ll work with other...
Can I publish this in the 4 minutes before the keynote starts??1 iPhone I went way too low on device storage space last year, so I’m definitely buying a new phone this year I’m using my camera for work more than ever, so I’m probably going to go with an iPhone Pro, but I’m not psyched about a bigger screen or heavier device. Hopefully, they’ve...
In these, the minutes before the September 2025 Apple Event, in which I — and many others — will fawn over the company’s latest gadgets, I felt I had to get this one out. Nick Heer wrote decisively and emphatically about how the transformation outlined in Apple in China that Tim Cook oversaw, led him straight toward kissing the ring in the White...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Jamie Thingelstad got a Messages-like style going on his website for chat-like blog posts and I love it. thingelstad.com 2️⃣ You don’t have to know anything about the Cortex Podcast to enjoy this hilarious animated short of their...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Remember that wild painting in the final episode of Severance season 2? Well, now it’s an amazing real-life (and massive mural) in L.A.). [🔗 9to5mac.com] 2️⃣ This neat project by Avi Bagla keeps track of when every word in the dictionary has been used...
So I’m simply not going to do it, and you can’t make me. 😜 This is post #9/31 for Blaugust 2025. HeyDingus is a blog by Jarrod Blundy about technology, the great outdoors, and other musings. If you like what you see — the blog posts, shortcuts, wallpapers, scripts, or anything — please consider leaving a tip, checking out my store, or just...
So I just typed into ChatGPT, “I need an easy prompt for a Blaugust post.” Here’s what I got: What’s one small habit or tool that’s made your life noticeably better in the past year? Alright, I’ll take it and turn it. Year of Small Improvements When contemplating a Yearly Theme for 2025, I decided to follow CGP Grey’s lead from 2024 and go with...
The extreme preciousness of time is the point of this video by the To Scale: channel, but I hope you’ll spend 10 minutes of yours to watch it and marvel at the vast scale of the history of the universe, and our fleeting portion of it. Amazing vision, effort, production, and payoff on this project. This is post #7/31 for Blaugust 2025. HeyDingus...
Here I am, again, blogging past 11pm to try to keep up with my Blaugust goal. Although I am typically a night owl, this week I’ve been both night owl and early bird and it’s catching up with me. Tomorrow, I have to wake up at 4:30am (in just five and half hours — yikes!) to be at a local trailhead ready to start hiking at 6am. It’ll be a long day...
12 minutes and counting to write and publish this thing to meet my arbitrary goal of writing a post every day, on the day, for Blaugust. Let’s do this. My wonderful wife approached me in a tizzy yesterday. She had that look in her eye that told me she had a technology rant built up and me — the tech guy — was going to hear about it. Sure enough,...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (or sometimes Mondays). Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Getting the Pebble trademark back from Google is a spot of feel-good news regarding a tech giant that I just never expected. [🔗 theverge.com] 2️⃣ A follow up from a few weeks ago, Becca Farsace rode an eBike...
Sorry for the clickbait title, but I haven’t read the book. The phrase just occurred to me as I was driving back from a short canoe paddle with my wife today. I saw my quick-dry towel hanging on the passenger seat and I realized how much carrying a towel in my car has really paid off this summer. I’ve slowly been turning into someone who just...
I went outside with my MacBook today to answer some emails and work on upcoming trip logistics for my guiding service. My wife is sitting next to me, reading her book. She commented about how our backyard is full of such good sounds. So, here’s a non-exhaustive list of everything I can hear right now. The soft chirp of a bird high up in a nearby...
Image: aggronaut.com ⌘ Well, that really snuck up on me. Here I was, power-puttering™ around on the computer: today is the first of August. Not only does that mark the beginning of the end of summer, but it also marks the first day of the month-long blogging challenge/community event/all-around-fun-times that is Blaugust. From the ‘Blaugust 2025...
Fans of Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program — the one where you pay monthly for an iPhone and have the opportunity to upgrade to a new model after a given number of payments — rejoice! You can now get a similar deal for an iPad Pro. And when I say “deal”, I really mean it. More on that in a bit. You might remember the folks at Upgraded have offered a...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Got a move streak mix up on your Apple Watch where the gadget thinks you missed a day, but you haven’t? There is a fix! (Related: my stand goal cheater shortcut.) [🔗 sixcolors.com] 2️⃣ New CGP Grey video! I know feel so much smarter...
I’m thrilled to learn (via episode #573 of the Upgrade podcast with Myke Hurley and “Mr. Kobo” himself, Jason Snell) that Kobo has announced a new partnership with Instapaper to replace its Pocket integration: In partnership with Instapaper, Kobo is working diligently to bring this integration to its eReaders, with the aim of launching by the end...
Well, a little less than two months since Mozilla announced it was happening, Pocket, the venerable read-it-later service, has officially shut down. I’ve been meaning for the last few days to check when Mozilla was turning out the lights; go figure, it’s today. I’ve exported all my saves, which turned out to be a list of nearly 15,000 URLs split...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Nick Heer does the work in dismantling this sexist post regarding Apple’s ass handed to it by Judge Gonzalez Rogers. [🔗 pxlnv.com] 2️⃣ Whoa. Monty Python and the Holy Grail turned 50 this year! It still makes me laugh out loud every...
I’m glad that Jason Snell blogged about his skepticism toward the OpenAI and io partnership because his feelings almost exactly mirror my own. Personally, I don’t trust Sam Altman any further than I could throw him. But I do trust Jony Ive — so his high regard for Altman has to count for something. The framing of this as “two friends coming...
A list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted when I’ve got 7 of them. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ This might be the fastest and easiest dollar I’ve ever spent. This browser extension replaces images of Trump and Musk with kittens. [🔗 apps.apple.com] (Via Lou Plummer) 2️⃣ If the words “HomeStar Runner” mean anything to you,...
Acapulco returns in July for a fourth and final season. I’ve enjoyed this series, and I’m glad they’re wrapping up here — it feels like a natural conclusion. Trying, my underrated favorite, is renewed for a fifth season! Maybe we already knew this and I forgot, but I can’t wait. S4 felt a bit off, so I hope they’ve got their mojo back. HeyDingus...
You’d have no way of knowing, but I swapped the entire infrastructure that HeyDingus runs on from Dropbox to iCloud today. It took all of two minutes and a few mouse clicks. How? Through the magic of file syncing and my hosting service, Blot. Since the beginning, Blot’s whole advantage was to turn a folder on your computer into a site on the...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Ryan Christoffel’s got a good tip for wrangling AirPods’ noise canceling modes with Shortcuts. [🔗 9to5mac.com] 2️⃣ Matt Birchler made a quick little website to house his quick little tools. [🔗 quickstuff.app] 3️⃣ Jason Snell lists...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ I did not know about these keyboard shortcuts in YouTube to step forward and backward by one frame. 🔗 support.google.com (Via John Gruber) 2️⃣ I very much appreciated this piece that Sarah Jeong wrote in response to criticism about...
Matt Birchler in a (paywalled) post on Birchtree: I’m of course publishing this the day after the Severance season 2 finale, but I’ve had this draft open for a few weeks as the entire second season (and Silo season 2 a few months earlier) has gotten this “I’m a season one guy” idea rolling around in my head. I think it’s cool to see more of the...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ I’ve long wondered how folks did bold and italic text on sites like Twitter that didn’t support formatting. This website does it for you using (unfortunately not very accessible) ✨Unicode✨. (Micro.blog, my social media of choice, does...
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ @tinyblocks_ on Threads put together a clever iPhone setup that uses Shortcuts in the Dock to swap focus modes tied to specific Home Screens. Rather than launching actions, they bring you to a dedicated dashboard of sorts. [🧵...