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Smart glasses are a perfect example of a smart-assed device. Can we please solve sunglasses first before we try to monetize my ability to see?
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In light of Apple reportedly ending Vision Pro development, I’m gonna toss a product idea out there: I don’t want smart glasses. I want glasses with an e-ink display that lets me turn them into sunglasses at the tap of a button on the frame. Full stop. No shitty transitions. That’s the product. 🕶️
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We’ve recently added the concept of Mac-assed apps to our lexicon. I’d like to contribute another category of apps and devices: Smart-assed. This describes things that try to out guess the user in unhelpful and annoying ways, like turning down the air conditioning when you place the car in park.
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I’m about ready to just fork Synergy and have Claude help me roll my own tool for sharing my keyboard and mouse between machines after the recent releases. I’ve used it for 15+ years. How has this app gotten so freaking terrible?
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My Vgate iCar Pro OBDII adapter came in handy today. Was able to isolate a problem in my car to some system relating to fuel pressure. Repair appointment scheduled. Hopefully it’s not too pricey to fix!
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Adam Ragusea zoomed so far out on the Hank Green controversy that he caught onto something much bigger and more interesting about this moment in time:
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You can read a book forever
Something I’ve been thinking about lately is: How do we deal with archival of the written word in the digital age?
When someone publishes a physical book, a CD, or a Blu-ray, that content is out there forever so long as copies exist in the wild. When someone publishes a video to YouTube it only really exists so long as the channel author and/or YouTube wills it to be. Same problem for software and services, photos, web pages, and streaming audio. It’s very difficult to return years later after a video has been pulled by the creator to be able to find it again, although sporadic archives do appear to exist if you’re lucky.
In a world that relies more and more on ephemeral digital distribution and infrastructure, I worry greatly about how much information about today will actually be available to future historians looking back on our society centuries from now. For me, it was a hassle trying to locate a video from 2011 that was pulled from the DigitalRev TV YouTube channel:
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For the love of all that is holy @threads, don’t show me a bunch of stuff on app resume only to snatch it away from me a second later to update it after I’ve started reading. Either show me only the new thing, or tell me the view is out of date and let me choose to pull to refresh myself. FFS. 🤦♂️
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In past support roles, I always preferred working from a Mac, but those pesky Windows System Information (*.NFO) files kept getting in the way. So tonight I built NFOViewer, a simple macOS app that opens them with zero friction.
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I finally got around to adding a projects page to my website. Check it out here: micro-blog.brianward.us/projects/
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Is there a Mastodon-like equivalent of TikTok yet? Cuz I think we should get cracking on that…
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I’m pulling in 3/4 of a gigabit today over WiFi on my iPhone. I’m just trying to picture how I’d have explained this to myself in 1999 where all I had was a 33.6 dialup modem. 🤯
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Today I reclaimed my old Tumblr. Why? 🤷♂️
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Recapping since the very first post didn’t show up: I’m evaluating Micro.blog as a possible thing to integrate into my website. I’ve long wanted a way to just microblog somewhere that is platform agnostic. It’s too much work to post separately on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. So far, seems cool!
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Ooh… it worked that time. Fancy! ✨😎✨
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Let’s try that again: Looks like it tried to do the thing, but failed, but also crucially logged what happened, so I know that it did actually try. 😆
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So I just recently put up a new splash page at www.brianward.us and am now evaluating options for adding a microblog to it. If I’m understanding how this works, this post should show up on my Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky all at once. And it should be archived on my own Micro.blog page! 🤞
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