You miss Apple livestream tweeting? DON’T WORRY I GOTCHU AGAIN FAM

The ecstasy of having glasses-free vision is only matched by the complete and total relief that comes with removing rigid gas-permeable contacts. It’s like buying and selling a boat every day of your life.

@niplav@niplav.github.io artistry, or is this some kind of guitar thing?

One thing that I have to recalculate somewhat frequently is “Do I have any friends in New York?”. New Yorkers tend to drift in and out of my life at a fairly frequent clip and it’s not always easy remembering whom it wouldn’t be weird to say “I’ll be in town for a few days; wanna meet up?” to

Sometimes you’re the good son, sometimes you’re the wicked son, sometimes you’re the simple son, and sometimes you’re the son who doesn’t even know how to ask a question.

Pressed C-t (transpose) for the second time ever today.

new toy: xhs https://website.example/ | prettier –parser html | bat

Idea for a bio: “I like good things and dislike bad things. Also, I dislike some good things and like some bad things.”

In case you were wondering, AirPods Pro are unable to cancel noise that comes from inside your head, like from an electric toothbrush.

. o O (cat /usr/share/dict/words | egrep “^f.{2}k\$”) @niplav so…you like to fink?

Today’s best friend: {/* eslint-disable-next-line prettier/prettier, react/jsx-one-expression-per-line */}

halp i want to listen to music but my ears are tired what do

@niplav@niplav.github.io interesting, it seems like you uploaded at least two weeks worth of posts sometime between yesterday and right now

Wanted to eat, didn’t eat, got distracted, now I don’t want to eat anymore. Win!

Calm-computing tip: While ⌥⌘H may clear off a lot of clutter, sometimes you want just one non-full-screened window. Consider making a new Space, moving that window into it, and enjoying its unclutteredness. Spaces are easy to create, re-order, and destroy.

~/Downloads zero.

Finally got to e-mail inbox zero. Now for my other inboxen.

Tired: Inbox Zero. Inspired: Tot Zero.

Just tried looking at some of my site’s pages’ HTML after they’ve been run through Prettier. It sure looks nice in bat(1), but the extra build step would take entire seconds to complete.

Send even more help. I’m having the most millenial of midlife crises — I’m not sure Donatello is my spirit-animal ninja turtle anymore.

send help I’m working on a website with no dark mode and there’s no good way to turn on only some lights in the room I’m in

Free meme: “Shub-mergerrath, the eater of code“

Follow-up question to follow-up thought: “What does it mean if someone replies with a number on [1, 7)?”

Random follow-up thought: “On a scale from 7 to 14, how basic am I?”

@niplav@niplav.github.io “Markov” sounds more like meaningless babble (maybe from a political opponent). See also: “duckspeak”.

Realization: One day, the only people who say “the future is now, old man” will themselves be old.

I used a computer today. I think that may have been a mistake.

Xcode Cloud 🤔

If I never have to hold three rulers perpendicular to each other to find out how big an object is if I buy one, that’ll be great.

”Probably shoud’ve just taken the car.”

Is this woman teeny, or is that a 27″ iMac next to her?

Nope, don’t like the changes for Safari. Not one bit.

Sounds like they’re trying to move Automator things into Shortcuts things.

AirPlay? One fewer thing I keep in the top right.

Universal Control? I could use this.

Monterey? Good name.

Yes, let’s talk about macOS.

Listing Taiwan as a country for HomePod mini? Bold.

Walking Steadiness 🤔

iCloud+: Not just a VPN. Interesting.

So voice processing is back on-device after a decade or so? Finally.

How does Mail Privacy cloak my location? Does it proxy my e-mail through Apple?

Oh, Translate is a thing?

Quick Note: aping features from LiquidText. Not Sherlocked, but still.

Multitasking in the double-tap-Home screen? Finally.

Shelf 🤔

Proper two-app multitasking? Finally.

App Library in the Dock? I think that might solve my “I want to open an arbitrary second app on this screen without a keyboard” problem.

App Library? Yawn.

Widgets anywhere? Yawn.