David Blue

• [Lemmy Thread](https://lemmy.world/post/23872498 ““Things Themes for Arctic” on the Arctic Lemmy Community”)

I’ve maintained a fairly prolific habit of “adapting” the color palettes of Cultured Code’s Things 3 (light and dark) for the various software in which I spend most of my time.

I was excited to have another opportunity to do so, recently, for my favorite Lemmy client! So far, I’m still fiddling with the Light version, but the Dark version is available below!

Dark

(The theme files below should be openable directly in Arctic, cross-platform.)

• Dark Theme File Download URL
• Dark Theme File Download Shortlink - https://dub.sh/arcticthingsdarkdl

Source

• GitHub Gist

  { “accent”: { “errorColor”: “#FF3370”, “accentColor”: “#67ACFF”, “successColor”: “#4CBF60”, “warningColor”: “#FFD400” }, “id”: “F374ECA7-27A8-43F3-AA9C-E2929E456E9C”, “name”: “Things Dark”, “background”: { “groupedBackgroundColor”: “#1D2229”, “foregroundColor”: “#1D2229”, “primaryContainerColor”: “#252A31”, “backgroundColor”: “#171C22”, “secondaryContainerColor”: “#31596F4D”, “groupedForegroundColor”: “#2E333A” }, “text”: { “tertiaryLabel”: “#87919F”, “secondaryLabel”: “#787F89”, “linkLabel”: “#67ACFF”, “primaryLabel”: “#FFFFFF”, “placeholderLabel”: “#828C9BE2” }, “actions”: { “favoriteColor”: “#FFD400CA”, “markReadColor”: “#186289”, “collapseColor”: “#67ACFF96”, “editColor”: “#5CA5FF”, “saveColor”: “#4CBF60”, “crosspostColor”: “#4C4060”, “downvoteColor”: “#D1C58B”, “shareColor”: “#4DB1A7”, “replyColor”: “#5CA5FF”, “blockColor”: “#FC375E”, “upvoteColor”: “#1BADF8”, “subscribeColor”: “#4CBF69C9” } }

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Light

• Light Theme File Download Link
• Light Theme File Download Shortlink - https://dub.sh/articthingslightdl

Source

{
  "name": "Things Light",
  "id": "AFA2343E-D9A2-4AE2-B439-BB18789761DF",
  "actions": {
    "favoriteColor": "#FFD600EC",
    "shareColor": "#FFD600EC",
    "upvoteColor": "#0665B5CA",
    "subscribeColor": "#3AA89BE4",
    "editColor": "#FB4475E2",
    "blockColor": "#FB444FE7",
    "downvoteColor": "#CCBF7DE5",
    "markReadColor": "#BDE2D3E7",
    "collapseColor": "#94979897",
    "saveColor": "#BF54B1DD",
    "replyColor": "#4CBF62E9",
    "crosspostColor": "#3FBFB6E0"
  },
  "accent": {
    "errorColor": "#FF3370",
    "warningColor": "#FFD400",
    "successColor": "#4CBF60",
    "accentColor": "#1BAFF6F5"
  },
  "text": {
    "primaryLabel": "#15181A",
    "secondaryLabel": "#9399A3FA",
    "placeholderLabel": "#979DA5D7",
    "linkLabel": "#0069CD",
    "tertiaryLabel": "#C1C4C7DC"
  },
  "background": {
    "groupedBackgroundColor": "#F3F6F7",
    "groupedForegroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "secondaryContainerColor": "#E1E4E9B1",
    "foregroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "backgroundColor": "#F3F6F7",
    "primaryContainerColor": "#EBEDF0CB"
  }
}

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Long-Awaited, Elegantly-Executed

Somehow, this 1.4 MB, virtually inconfigurable, single-use application manages to be one of the most powerful audio manipulation tools on iOS. Those who remember maintaining a GarageBand install just because they occasionally needed to trim audio files will celebrate. One of very few apps I’ve come across that I absolutely wouldn’t change at all but would pay much more for.

Extraordinarily accurate (especially compared to any of its “competition”) and astonishingly robust.

it’s so pretty omg…

THE solution for those who actually frame

As his co-editor notes in MacStories' review of Version 1.0, Federico Viticci’s Apple Frames Shortcut does indeed overlap in functionality with Shareshot, technically, but - more importantly, from my perspective - the two stand together high above any other mockup creation solution (for any platform).

At first, I was disappointed when I tried to use Shareshot’s initial release version. Boy, this could sure use some keyboard shortcuts, I thought, along with there’s no way this system of ‘choosing’ (not choosing) frame sizes isn’t irritating every single user of this app. I assumed - as I do with the vast majority of new software I try these days - that Shareshot’s creators must not actually be using the app, that it wasn’t actually supposed to be used, really, but was published, instead, for some economically-motivated reason I’d never understand.

Very shortly after, however, the most extraordinarily encouraging thing(s) happened: in the span of just a single season, all of the issues/“missing” features I was sure anyone using the app extensively would immediately encounter were addressed with solid, well-documented updates.(Tee ell dee are: it is very obvious that Marc and Mark use the app themselves, are very competent, and value customer feedback.)

As I write this using Version 1.2.1 at the tail end of 2024, Shareshot is the perfect, built-for-me mockup application I have always dreamed of, assuming I’d never get anything close.

Whilst diligently counting the sparse blessings offered by LLMs in 2024… I’m thrilled and proud to offer you - thanks to Google Gemini - a Zalgoing TextExpander Snippet!

…which you can access by joining my Text Fuck Snippet Group or by inputting the source yourself (embedded below.)

(Forgot to conclude the story: I just immediately left the server.)

Anecdotally…

An opportunity to compare transcript generation between Microblog’s and the “Apple Intelligence” transcripts now available in Voice Memos:

I guess it must have been um in 2021. I don’t know why it feels like it was so long ago uh when I first heard about well, not, but I first heard of Of course the the name blues sky had been tossed around for a long time. That’s why I had heard about it. uh The first time anything that I ever saw anything tangible, it was a discordite, of course, and what I did was that I immediately went in there and uh I think, well, the discussion that was happening that I remember it was about the protocol specifically. um and I literally just linked to activity to the main activity pub site. I think I linked to activity pub. rocks uh, and and it was just like, you guys know about this, right? Um, and I swear to you, like, uh and it was kind of like frantic. It was like sincere like wait, hang on a second because that’s the way that that uh activity pub shit. um the actual foundation of to centralized social that’s been around for um I was going to say decades. I guess it’s probably pushing it a little bit, but a decade and more. um It’s been developed on and refined to a point where it is like it is the thing. The technology, like is a and I guess I should appreciate that more. I guess the technology had already been established and from my perspective, it continues to be I mean the dream of social media seeing the first time I said this before a million times, but like seeing a pixel fed post in line on a masted on feed I remember that that thought like holy shit, this is literally what I wished for all along. um like shit. I wish that like the the technology barrier that um proprietary barriers between me and and whatever I wanted to express in the service, I wish that I could um barriers maybe not the right word, but actually is just like the dream. And like I don’t know anything technically about the AT protocol because I am not like enough anything that’s kind of intentional. I just don’t have ruin my brain, but, you know, all these years, what I’ve heard from people again about their hesitants, so mast it on their their bad experiences on mastodon have been because it was difficult. uh but like seeing some of those same people um literally have their username, their bluesray username stop resolving for a second. uh But I don’t know. I don’t understand. And I guess it it’s just and it just fucking sends me and I don’t know why. I don’t know why. um but redundancy, I guess, is just really alarming and also I don’t know. um I heard a friend got their account their blue sky account suspended uh and I didn’t follow up with him so I probably should actually the other day, but it seemed like he that that happened without explanation um and uh there’s just no meaning behind calling yourself open source and if if that sort of thing is going to happen um also like practically speaking, if decentralization is what anyone in the in the blue sky project genuinely want it I still have yet to hear an explanation as for why they wouldn’t have there just is none there is none other than money and the difference between m Macedon and blue sky is that blue sky took ventures money. uh and it’s just strange to me and irritating a hell to hear um I don’t know I don’t know anything about Jake Raber, but uh, like hearing her go on about uh the things they’re doing in a meive Patel interview that he did recently. um and he just I love Neai. But like once again, that was I mean, and and decoder is his business podcast. So like I can’t even like that’s is very explicitly about business. uh so and organs or whatever. um so I guess I can’t but like you got to interrupt her. Anyway, so okay, so what happened with that disord thing? I went in there, uh linked activity pub dot rocks and was like, guys, you know about this, right? Like woo, hold on. wait a second. uh and then like the response was I mean, I remember it being I didn’t read it because it began with you know, the essence was uh well, but and I was just like, yeah, I got Bill, thank you to everyone who created activity problem. And I’m like not it is not loyalty for the sake of I just really love the brand um because I it’s just I don’t understand. I don’t understand um and I and I suspect once again that literally your only barrier, I guess I should just be more explicit about it. Those of you who um found herself migrating this blue sky. Okay, I’m gonna exempt anyone who has to do social media, for their livelihood, okay? Because that just doesn’t count, then you have to go with other people. There are people. That has to be that’s a whole different consideration. But like uh like you definitely what you mean by it’s it was hard is that it’s genuinely nonprofit and you get the same sickness that I suppose still have um but like damn uh it’s so disappointing. and uh isolating, I guess. And frustrating, but, um yeah. I’m sure it’s gonna grow great. Um

features like Screen Time will never help you achieve whatever vague conception of reduced usage you may have. If you haven't yet quantified the figures you'll find within it in mental estimates, you aren't really concerned at all and if you have, Screen Time will only confirm them. Using reminder notifications to optimize your appflow makes no attempt at all to actually escape the mentality of the behavior you seek to lessen from yourself. Another app is still another app; a notification reminding you to stop using an app does nothing but add still more stimuli. If you want to stop using the phone so much, *stop* using the fucking phone. If you are truly concerned about how your handset companion has changed your life, turn it off for a week/month/quarter – however long you possibly can. By that, I mean no more or less than what you can manage without getting fired/dumped/expelled/etc. If you have truly reached this point, anything less is probably worth it. There is simply no other way to get a clear picture of how it's changed you.

Hopefully the all-I-can-do-is-milestone-minutea-of-my-fucking-life phase will be over soon so that I can get back to (genuinely wise??) thoughts like this.

Please note: as of this time, we cannot confirm with reasonable certainty that Time Manipulation will be releasing with the iOS 18.3 public build.

With Voice Memos, two tracks can be layered on top of one another. There's also an option to separate layers and edit layer mixes.

Two-track projects can be imported directly into Logic Pro on the iPhone 16 Pro and ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ Max.

Hypothes.is

Why/how in God’s name of the fuck would it be limited to (effectively) a single device??

…Voice Memos does not need to be a DAW.

We do not accept titles types with a year before the type was invented.

The earliest year for which titles are eligible are:

- Movies: 1888  

- Music Videos: 1894

- TV: 1927

- Audio Books: 1932

- Video Games: 1958

- VHS: 1976

- Streaming: 1993

- DVD: 1996

- Podcasts: 2004

Found it very intriguing that IMDB decided to declare definitive never before years for its encompassed media forms. And of course… the values even more so.