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Oct 22, 2024: The student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was …
Oct 21, 2024: The three genders.
Oct 20, 2024: An Intimate Conversation with my iPhone 4S An intimate conversation with - and using - my iPhone 4S demonstrating the losslessest possible audio capture example. Transcript
Oct 20, 2024: Just a reminder that I continue to put all of my music curatiorial energy into a single discovery playlist, basically, which is designed to make …
Oct 7, 2024: Reminders for macOS Keyboard Shortcuts Action Shortcut New Reminder ⌘-N New List ⇧-⌘-N Indent reminder ⌘-] Outdent reminder ⌘-[ Show all subtasks ⌘-E Hide all subtasks ⇧-⌘-E …
Sep 22, 2024: hamlet Noun a community of people smaller than a village Synonyms crossroads Less specific community the hero of William Shakespeare’s tragedy who …
Sep 21, 2024: inhere Verb be inherent in something Less specific belong to belong Related built-in constitutional inbuilt inherent integral implicit in inherent …
Sep 21, 2024: currently being alphaed by my own fucking dictionary smh.
Sep 17, 2024: "Tumblr iOS Architecture" Deck from 2014 https://engineering.tumblr.com/post/93985550454/tumblr-ios-architecture Speakerdeck Page Original PDF
Sep 15, 2024: Capture Snap.as Library
Sep 14, 2024: Chatgpt Helps Me Publish my First Pypi Package Please feel free to rebuke the fuck outta me, but no… I’m 30 years old and still have yet to make it through a single one of those …
Sep 11, 2024: interrogative Noun a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; “he asked a direct question”; “he had trouble phrasing his interrogations” Synonyms question …
Sep 10, 2024: The Final Solution to the phones-in-schools issue Yes, I am 100% confident in my argument, this time. Automated Transcript
Sep 1, 2024: derivation Noun the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); “he prefers shoes of Italian derivation”; “music of Turkish …
Aug 31, 2024: Whyp in CarPlay! Today, Uuganbayar Otgonbayar added astonishingly responsive and (like the rest of the app) quite original CarPlay support to their React Native-based …
Aug 30, 2024: Some More Almost Entirely Unrelated Conjecture About Telegram Here is the blog post I keep referring to (from 2022, please note.)
Aug 30, 2024: pukka Adjective absolutely first class and genuine; “pukka sahib”; “pukka quarters with a swarm of servants” Synonyms pucka Similar to superior …
Aug 22, 2024: *The Onion*'s new fate is a rare glimmer in the media industry landscape And how do you do all of that on top of migrating the entire Onion website to WordPress? Nilay Patel …
Aug 21, 2024: GASSY World Tour Doing the third leg of my tour around the world commemorating the KC-10 Extender, this morning. Rammstein Air Base (ETAR) to Al Udeid Air Base (OTBH) …
Aug 20, 2024: eventuate Verb come out in the end Less specific turn out come out Related consequence effect outcome result event issue upshot eventuate - LookUp …
Aug 17, 2024: "Oleophobia" - Logic Pro for iPad Experiment iCloud Shared Project File
Aug 16, 2024: iCloud Shared Project File
Aug 16, 2024: Still having trouble describing how good this was for me to listen to.
Aug 15, 2024: iPadOS 18 Audio Capture Anecdotes Aiko Transcript All right folks, it’s your favorite thing, favorite time. It’s time to play around with the changes to audio capture …
Aug 14, 2024: ǝ ɯ ɐ l Transcript Oh was just behind a Tesla Model X for a moment and just long enough to notice that they I mean it looks like it I don’t even know …
Aug 13, 2024: Google Teeth “Design a logo for a fictional Google denture product called Google Teeth.”
Aug 13, 2024: urbane Adjective showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; “his polished manner”; “maintained an urbane …
Aug 6, 2024: Burn in Hell, Fruit Company The End of an Era: A Message From the Founder as We Announce the Closure of AppleVis | AppleVis applevis.com applevis.com …
Aug 5, 2024: gossamer Noun a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture Less specific gauze netting veiling Related ethereal gossamer filaments from a web that …
Aug 4, 2024: Glass Profile Ingestion As much as I genuinely enjoyed my free trial + then some paid time using Glass, I’m just not able/interested in image capture right now to …
Aug 4, 2024: esemplastic es·em·plas·tic | ˌesemˈplastik | adjective rare molding into one; unifying: Coleridge defines imagination as the esemplastic power. Derivatives …
Aug 4, 2024: Just a Test (sorry) Transcript (Not sure why these aren’t added automatically tbh.) URL If you don’t find the potential for accessibility in large …
Aug 4, 2024: Typora ⇨ Marked 2 "Support" Despite the beautiful myriad of text editors available for macOS, I’ve still found myself using Typora on my old machine. When I recently (read: …
Aug 3, 2024: fracas Noun noisy quarrel Synonyms affray altercation Less specific quarrel wrangle row words run-in dustup More specific batrachomyomachia …
Aug 3, 2024: ChatGPT Responds to My Old Apple Dev Forums Question Back in July, 2021, I posted a thread on the Apple Developer forums asking for clarification on the differences between hardware keyboard support on …
Aug 3, 2024: Infinite Flight’s prettiest views imo.
Aug 2, 2024: Decoding Apple Maps Guide URLs Revisiting the noted release of beta dot maps dot apple dot com just now, I found my way back to back to a “mystery” I deserted some years …
Jul 20, 2024: when he go and spend every second of the whole weekend at the racetrack "snapping photos," but this all he come back with... when he go and spend every second of the whole weekend at the racetrack "snapping photos," but this all he come back with...
Jul 19, 2024: Nilay Patel Calls for 5G Emails If you are a person… Automated Transcription If you are a person beyond just my phone is faster or I've downloaded more pirated Netflix …
Jul 18, 2024: ⏚̶̯̺͎̦̬̝̺͓̝̳̞̙͈̦̦̹̫͆̏̊̓̉͗͋ͭ͂ͥ̏͛́͘ͅ⏚ͨͩ͊̍̍ͪ͂͆̉̂ͨͣ̓͏͏̪̙̝̜̫̫̥̱̫͙͕!̵̮̯̲͚͉̪̱̻̝̠̜̳̓ͮͨ͊̐ͮ̃̽̚͝ …
Jul 17, 2024: I just realized how incredibly original Sunlit is in simply allowing one the ability to source one’s already-uploaded (but not shared, notably) …
Jul 17, 2024: I just realized how incredibly original Sunlit is in simply allowing one the ability to source one’s already-uploaded (but not shared, notably) …
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Jul 16, 2024: Ranting Around about Wavelength Thoughts about capturing audio with handsets.
Jul 15, 2024: caracole Verb make a half turn on a horse, in dressage Less specific turn caracole - LookUp noun Riding a half turn to the right or left by a horse …
Jul 15, 2024: I Wonder What the Hell Auphonic Did with this Shit
Jul 14, 2024: Vegan Engine Coolant Caint believe it.
Jul 14, 2024:
Craft Assistant on Commercialized Religion
I was reminded yesterday - as I am very, very occasionally - about a thing I blasted out on The Psalms in early August 2019 about my early childhood …
Jul 13, 2024: knave Noun a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel Synonyms rogue rascal rapscallion scalawag scallywag varlet Less specific villain scoundrel Related …
Jul 13, 2024: reticent Adjective temperamentally disinclined to talk Synonyms untalkative Similar to taciturn Related reserve reticence taciturnity cool and …
Jul 12, 2024: inferences.json As the utter psychosis of adtech has come further and further into the mainstream light, I have been occasionally enjoying myself by …
Jul 9, 2024: Two YouTube Favorites of "My" Era The Tangerine Knight ...some men just want a tangerine. Michael Caine https://youtu.be/ZS6bD3SpIvk Slick’s 2009 Airventure Comp
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Jun 21, 2024: Marquis Trill's First Twitter Space Some time in late Summer 2021, I stumbled into another of the handful of nigh-inconceivable conversation opportunities which Twitter Spaces would …
Jun 7, 2024: emend Verb make improvements or corrections to; “the text was emended in the second edition” Less specific better improve amend ameliorate meliorate …
May 24, 2024: verve Noun an energetic style Synonyms vitality Less specific energy muscularity vigor vigour vim More specific sparkle twinkle spark light …
May 19, 2024: iPhone 4S
May 18, 2024: #iPhone4S
May 11, 2024: Given the current state of Dropbox Paper (can't even trust the metadata,) I can't be entirely sure why exactly my [original draft](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Reviewed-Rock-Springs-Wyoming--CO7txZrHgjwhlVC8diO8fx2xAQ-jeE4RlaRHowleHZOkQqb4 <img id=“rss_item_695105665021136960” …
May 9, 2024: Working Copy App Store Review My absolute favorite Git client… on ANY platform. I had the relatively unique experience of coming to Git, mobile-first, via this very …
May 3, 2024: Latest Color Names Latest Colornames Palette This is an automatically-generated palette of the latest entries on colornames.org created by my Siri Shortcut. :) 265347
May 1, 2024: Underexposure has always been my shit. Believe it or not, this was far from the most interesting/dynamic thing to look at pulled over on the side of W last night, but it's all I could capture. Underexposure has always been my shit. Believe it or not, this was far from the most interesting/dynamic thing to look at pulled over on the side of W …
Apr 30, 2024: piedmont Noun the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama …
Apr 28, 2024: aberration Noun a state or condition markedly different from the norm Synonyms aberrance aberrancy deviance Less specific abnormality abnormalcy More …
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Apr 22, 2024: Almost positive this is one of the few instances where I managed to accidentally manifest an indistinguishable likeness from the moment of intent …
Apr 19, 2024: peradventure Noun doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case; “this proves beyond peradventure that he is innocent” Less specific …
Apr 18, 2024: Keka for iOS/iPadOS App Store Review The best compression/extraction utility on the platform. By far the most delightful compression/extraction utility for macOS (imo) is somewhat …
Mar 30, 2024: Extracting individual YouTube video URLs from Playlists with yt-dlp Since I’m a longtime Raindrop.io user, I handle plaintext, line-broken lists of raw URLs a lot, though I’m used to having to get them to …
Mar 29, 2024: if you didn't immediately recognize which slice of this pie spent the whole meeting loudly farting their asses straight to hell, YOU are the problem. if you didn't immediately recognize which slice of this pie spent the whole meeting loudly farting their asses straight to hell, YOU are the problem.
Mar 28, 2024: thought I’d try taking the reflector out of this free Habor Freight headlamp and…
Mar 21, 2024: u ƃ ı s ǝ p
Mar 21, 2024:
Craft Audio Sampler
A comprehensive index of the audio notifications/effects found in the cross-platform “productivity app” Craft.Meta
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Mar 13, 2024: Paste for macOS App Store Review Though I’ve lamented recent changes to Paste’s iOS/iPadOS app, the macOS version remains just about perfect to use. It also remains the …
Mar 2, 2024: Finally got around to - once again - washing DAVÖD as thoroughly as I could last week. Discovered that the crud in all the door sills problem is not …
Feb 23, 2024: why should he.
Feb 22, 2024:
Road Rage of The Deep
Below is an excerpt from my just-republished 2019 Volkswagen Atlas Review detailing my singular encounter with capital-r Road Rage in the entirety of …
Feb 22, 2024: concord Noun capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river Synonyms Concord capital of New …
Feb 3, 2024: Champion's Online Review (GameTrack) I’ve been trying GameTrack's premium tier for the past month and thought I should at least have one go at the review function… This …
Jan 24, 2024: Audio Waveforms Visualized in a Snap via Siri Shortcut Just wanted to highlight and demonstrate @verdictum’s absolutely incredible Visualize Audio Siri Shortcut. RoutineHub Page iCloud Share URL …
Jan 12, 2024: Just stopping by on my way home this rainy morning and noting to myself to come back and set aside an afternoon to update “H-Town.” …
Jan 7, 2024: David Zipper on The War on Cars Intrigued to both discover the existence of The War on Cars podcast this morning 1 and to hear from someone I’m positive I’ve read before …
Dec 31, 2023: Apple Music Live NYE 2024 Interviews Peggy Gou’s Set Honey Dijon’s Set KAYTRANADA’s Set
Dec 29, 2023: and here I thought the video (Beat Breaker vs the Pony instrumental) was funny but then went to Picsart and “made”… this
Dec 23, 2023: brocade Noun thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern Less specific fabric cloth material textile Related brocade Verb weave a design …
Dec 20, 2023: cogitate Verb consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one’s mind Less specific chew over think over meditate ponder excogitate contemplate …
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Dec 5, 2023: phantasmagoria Noun LookUp a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream) Less specific representation mental representation internal …
Dec 4, 2023: Apple Music Replay 2023 See the full-sized image here. Apple Music Share URL WTF Shortlink - https://davidblue.wtf/am23 Playlist ID: pl.rp-0AA8HygLJv7 Market Tools
Nov 28, 2023: obloquy Noun state of disgrace resulting from public abuse Synonyms opprobrium Less specific shame disgrace ignominy a false accusation of an …
Nov 27, 2023: Siri Simone Voicemail Greeting Whyp Raw File As of iOS17, it would appear that responsibility for synthesizing the Default Greeting preview (locally on one’s device) has now …
Nov 15, 2023: epistolary Write.as Adjective written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence; “an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs”; …
Nov 15, 2023: being real…
Nov 14, 2023: bawl Verb shout loudly and without restraint Synonyms bellow Less specific shout Related bellow bellowing holla holler hollering hollo holloa roar …
Nov 14, 2023: Diamond Bay Car Wash (Google Review) Sorry about the narrative - I found the experience about to recount oddly significant. Its gist: Digital payments on-site do not appear to be …
Nov 13, 2023: utile Adjective being of use or service; “the girl felt motherly and useful”; “a useful job”; “a useful member of society” Synonyms useful Antonyms …
Nov 12, 2023: I finally bought the least popular Seiko 5 color! I can see why, now… the face isn’t exactly readable. but boy, it’s so stupid how …
Nov 9, 2023: My First Ever OpenStreetMap Contribution Excited to contribute my first “commit.” The iOS app is really something, ain’t it? Changeset Page Diary Page Source Node …
Nov 6, 2023: hep
Nov 5, 2023: Gas Price Sign Update A manual (non-digital) Break Time primary fuel price sign. Gas Price Sign Update To date, the most utile function I’ve yet found for ChatGPT: helping …
Nov 4, 2023: exiguous Adjective extremely scanty; “an exiguous budget” Similar to meager meagre meagerly stingy scrimpy Related meagerness meagreness leanness …
Nov 4, 2023: Messed around with LightRoom for far too long early this morning and… well, you guessed it. At least I finally got around to trying such a …
Nov 3, 2023: The Drywall Whiteboard Last known capture of the Drywall Media/Extratone whiteboard, December 14 (Titanic Day,) 2016. He Carries His His - KOPN rimes Ninh Him DIE ANTWOORD …
Nov 3, 2023: Creating a one-liner for Secure ShellFish widgets Creating a one-liner for Secure ShellFish widgets Attempting to use ChatGPT to help me craft a one-liner command for Secure ShellFish’s widgets. You: …
Nov 3, 2023: efficacious Adjective marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; “written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and …
Oct 21, 2023: Adobers and I spent our bi-yearly morning together.
Oct 20, 2023: Obsidian: Automatically Adding Public Obsidian Publish URLs to Notes? Obsidian Forums Obsidian Discord WTF Howdy folks! I hope I’m not missing something - I’ve searched the forums, subreddit, etc. off and …
Oct 14, 2023: irenic Adjective conducive to peace; “irenic without being namby-pamby”; “an irenic attitude toward former antagonists” Similar to peaceful peaceable …
Oct 13, 2023: Who wore it better?
Oct 13, 2023: The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty …
Oct 13, 2023: Clippings Backup Taio Action GitHub Issue URL Scheme - taio://actions?action=run&name=Clippings%20Backup WTF This action uses the Get Clippings action step to return the …
Sep 29, 2023: Open in RoadStr Siri Shortcut Open an Apple Maps location in RoadStr from the share sheet. GitHub Issue iCloud Share Link Showcuts Source Repo File An extremely simple, but …
Sep 29, 2023: Anima Mundie Anima Mundie Vril is a proper noun, but is it place or presence? I’m always booted off-schedule to somewhere altered whenever he’s around, where …
Sep 9, 2023: Approaching Catcalling with Care “This conversation explores non-confrontational approaches to deter catcalling, offering insights on supporting victims and engaging with …
Apr 29, 2023: Non-Commercial, Open Source, and Federated Social Platforms as Effective Community Alternatives This essay seeks to examine the breadth of donor-funded, open source, federated social networks as technical alternatives to commercial online …
Apr 5, 2023: Honk Button Userscript Honk Button Userscript Prompt: Write a userscript that displays a button in the top right corner of any webpage which plays a honking sound.
Mar 8, 2023: FX050 FX050 An artificially-generated verse about my virtual airline flight. From Memphis skies, we take to flight Our journey’s set, destination in sight …
Dec 12, 2022: Jayson App Store Review I Am No Longer Afraid of JSON All of Simon’s apps are genius and wholly unique, but Jayson will always have a special place in mine own heart as the …
Nov 5, 2022: Keychron K2 Having broken my beloved Varmilo VA108M (which I absolutely intend to fix one day in the near future, FYI,) months ago and just last week completely …
Sep 14, 2022: On Drafts' Mail Integration One of the app's most universal 'native' advantages, revisited. I've spent more cumulative time playing with my Obsidian configuration in the past 24 …
Sep 1, 2022: Fucking Off Forever* *Or at least until I can regain a reasonable editorial perspective of current happenings. As I touched on in my 2021 overview of The Psalms, this …
Aug 6, 2022: Siri Shortcuts and the DJ Screw Discography The most magical configurables I've ever created for iOS by a long way. Though I don't believe I've ever discussed it, here, the continuance of the …
Jul 24, 2022: macOS Ventura Wallpaper Siri Shortcuts macOS Ventura Wallpaper Siri Shortcuts These two Base64-Bound Baddies might simplify your yuppie existence for another few weeks. Somehow, I managed …
Jun 5, 2022: Retrieve Live NPR Program Information with Siri Shortcuts A modified shortcut to query live program information from your NPR station. This past month, MacStories hosted a community Siri Shortcuts contest …
May 13, 2022: iPod Shuffle First Generation Anecdote Sorry I’m so late with this but I forgot I had something to contribute lol. My first and only dedicated mp3 player was a first-generation iPod Shuffle …
Mar 13, 2022: TildeTown on iPhone with Blink Shell The ideal means of On The Go participation in The Tildeverse. I was completely unaware of the Tildeverse’s origin story – documented in a Medium post …
Mar 4, 2022: Run Siri Shortcuts with Hyperlinks Imagine running shortcuts from anywhere you can place a link. There seemed to be a bit of confusion regarding a shortcut I posted on RoutineHub a few …
Feb 27, 2022: Apple Rag Review A quick review of Apple, Inc’s first venture as a textile company. Now that Apple, Incorporated is a textile company, I thought it might be pertinent …
Sep 26, 2021: SYSTEM COLORS Telegram Themes SYSTEM COLORS Telegram Themes (For iOS, that is.) Make no mistake — I did virtually nothing to create the following themes, nor do I know anything …
May 16, 2021: Is Sienna Guillory my Mom? in This Present Time I can have regular interactions with my adolescent celebrity crush that I *actually* would not be able to convince my 14-year-old …
Apr 20, 2021: Writing the Definitive Guide For Using an iPhone With a Bluetooth Keyboard Writing the Definitive Guide For Using an iPhone With a Bluetooth Keyboard When I graduated high school in the Spring of 2012, my mom offered me a …
Mar 24, 2021: Periscope Twitter Public Policy , Periscope Twitter Public Policy , Just FYI, this hyperlink is broken. We’re 8 days out and still haven’t heard back about downloading broadcasts. …
Dec 9, 2020: Concerning Discovery in Streaming Music Concerning Discovery in Streaming Music Reclaiming tastemaking for listeners in the Spotify era. Last week, Spotify users were treated to the …
Nov 23, 2020: Too Much Freedom (Thread) AMERICANS: FINALLY HAVE ENOUGH 'FREEDOM' YET? I am so fucking sick of Freedom. Freedom sucks. Freedom doesn't work. I'm tired of trying to figure out …
Nov 18, 2020: Thread on The Social Dilemma Notably missing from both the film and this interview: not only have these issues been discussed and researched for decades, now, but a biome of …
Oct 19, 2020: The Social Dilemma’s Dilemma The Social Dilemma’s Dilemma The pop culture discussion of tech’s greater issues missed in (at least) two major ways For those of us who’ve written …
Jul 14, 2020: Writing About Facebook is Overwhelming still working on my post about Facebook. it's over 7500 words now... sorry. so far, I've used the word "Facebook" 135 times. I'm pretty sure I'll have …
May 6, 2020: Profound. Love this review. Profound. Love this review.
May 1, 2020: Beginning a sentence with “but.” Beginning a sentence with “but.”
May 1, 2020: Needs a comma here. Needs a comma here.
Aug 13, 2018: It's Transfiguration Time It’s Transfiguration Time Extratone will be refocusing as a dedicated electronic music magazine with print issues on hand before 2018 is out. It’s …
Jul 16, 2018: Update: I was much too hasty in this proclamation. Update: I was much too hasty in this proclamation. Having now pounded through a few thousand words with LibreOffice Writer running on Linux Mint 19, I …
Jun 22, 2018: What has Bandcamp Done for You as an Artist? When did you first begin using Bandcamp as an artist? How has Bandcamp performed for you as an artist differently from other online music distribution …
May 22, 2018: Percy Hole, Editor at The Sun, Dies Pursuing Rock Springs Story Percy Hole, Editor at The Sun, Dies Pursuing Rock Springs Story Percy Hole, who in his seven years at The Sun contributed in no small part to its …
Feb 17, 2018: 'Mom and Dad''s Discrepant Defense Against Stale Industry and the Population Problem ‘Mom and Dad’’s Discrepant Defense Against Stale Industry and the Population Problem A “fun” movie. The Earth will reach its maximum occupancy load …
Apr 8, 2017: Give Voice to Hunger The world today is a wealth of topics and perspectives, but daily biological functions are universal. Everybody gets hungry, and we are in the …
Apr 4, 2017: Good email. Good email.
Nov 29, 2016: For God's Sake, Just Sit Down to Piss Outline * Preface * Not necessarily directed at young men of color. (Or definitely not directed at them, but at white, CIS, straight young men.) * …
Oct 3, 2016: Actually… I think you can do both, sorta. Actually… I think you can do both, sorta. The latter would seem to be a spreading disease at the moment.
Oct 1, 2016: and yet we’re still forgiven and yet we’re still forgiven see what we have asked of this land: juicing zea jabbing through chapped flats see what we have asked of her soldiers: …
Sep 22, 2016: The language here is some of the most insightful I’ve ever seen on the subject, if I’m interpreting… The language here is some of the most insightful I’ve ever seen on the subject, if I’m interpreting effectively. (I could just be extrapolating.) You …
Sep 19, 2015: E E — Skrillex (@Skrillex) May 15, 2010 It came to my attention today that my good friend Sonny Moore (commonly known as Skrillex) Tweeted …