2025-04-14 09:24:00
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 out his favorite titles from Apple TV+ if you’re looking for something else to get your money’s worth from your subscription. I wholeheartedly agree with his recommendations, but I have to add Trying as my underrated favorite. (Dickinson, part of the inaugural lineup, is quite good too, and also rarely gets mentioned.) [🔗 sixcolors.com]
4️⃣ Great news for climbing fans! Each climbing discipline at 2028 L.A. Olympics (bouldering, speed climbing, lead climbing) will get their own set of medals! We’ll see more intense competition for sure, seeing as climbers won’t need to be all-rounders and can play to their strength. [🔗 climbing.com]
5️⃣ While technically about climbing gear, this HowNOT2 video does a great job explaining how tariffs affect retailers (and ultimately consumers), how they will have to manage inventory and cash flow, and price products to manage. At 14 minutes, I think it’s well-worth your time. [▶️ youtube.com]
6️⃣ If you’re like me and “discovered” Benson Boone from his recent viral performance at the Grammys(?), I think you’ll enjoy this video of his debut auditioning for American Idol back in the day. [▶️ youtube.com]
7️⃣ Warren Buffet’s shareholder letter for Berkshire Hathaway reads like no other big business document. John Gruber pulled out some prescient passages that stuck with me. [🔗 daringfireball.net]
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2025-04-02 21:49:00
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 the headline that she wrote as editor for The Verge’s piece on Trump’s illegal firing of Democratic FTC commissioners. She explained how and why she wrote the original headline, and conceded that she got it wrong. 🔗 theverge.com
3️⃣ Robb Knight created the crossover event the world needed. 🧡 🔗 wellness.rknight.me
4️⃣ Conan O’Brien nails it in his acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. ▶️ youtube.com
5️⃣ Apple TV+ did a blue balloon installation in London to celebrate the season 2 finale of Severance and I love it. They’ve really pulled out all of the marketing stops for this show. (Hopefully more shows will start to get this kind of treatment too!) ▶️ youtube.com
6️⃣ Jason Snell flips the ad-free vs. ad-supported Netflix tier question on its head. Instead of how much can I save by watching ads? he asks, how much would Netflix have to pay me to watch their ads?. 🔗 sixcolors.com
7️⃣ Some genuinely surprising and good news out of Wisconsin: Liberal-leaning Susan Crawford won their Supreme Court seat despite Elon Musk pouring money in to help her opponent, Brad Schimel. Schimel encouraged his supporters to accept the results. 👩⚖️ wpr.org
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2025-03-22 02:48:00
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 world and have new characters come into the mix, but I also think that Severance season 1 captured lightning in a bottle; it was a perfect, contained concept, masterfully executed.
I loved the Severance S2 finale — it’s an edge-of-the-seat, heart pounding, yell at the TV sort of episode — but felt the same way as Matt throughout the season.
My wife and I actually had this same discussion after the finale, how many Apple TV+ shows are this way. Ted Lasso, Trying, and Mythic Quest all immediately come to mind. Fantastic shows, each one, and I’ve enjoyed all subsequent seasons, but their first seasons all wrapped with satisfying endings despite there being cliffhangers.
Shrinking and For All Mankind buck the trend with returning seasons just as good as the first, and Silo I actually liked season 2 more, but overall I might be a season 1 sorta guy too.
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2025-03-17 07:38:00
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 it using HTML, which is better, but isn’t supported everywhere — though most Mastodon servers seem to display it correctly.) [🔗 yaytext.com] (Via Dave Winer)
2️⃣ Such joy. Such power. Such precision. Such talent. Wow. [🔗 instagram.com]
3️⃣ Bluesky CEO Jay Graber subposts Mark Zuckerberg with her own Latin shirt reading “A world without Caesars”. [🔗 theverge.com]
4️⃣ Sindre Sorhus just can’t help but put out these awesome little apps. His newest is Googly Eyes which puts, well, googly eyes in your menu bar that follow your cursor around the screen. 👀😆 [🦣 mastodon.social]
5️⃣ For my fellow Shortcuts nerds, Joe Steel has a tip on setting the order of items passed into a shortcut. Photos always wants to do newest first, but using the ‘Filter Files’ action, you can make it do oldest first. But not without some shenanigans, as Joe found out. [🔗 duck.haus]
6️⃣ Want some unofficial Severance-inspired Lumon merch? Adam Selby’s got you covered! [🔗 adamselby.gumroad.com]
7️⃣ Nathan Longhurst is a guy to keep an eye on. He just summitted 100 peaks in New Zealand over a summer by using a paraglider to get down. Seems like these massive challenges are his deal. [🔗 climbing.com]
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2025-03-04 13:08:00
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. [🧵 threads.net]
2️⃣ @robexplosm imagines a truly evil use of the Severance technology. [🧵 threads.net]
3️⃣ Merlin Mann encourages us to notice the good stuff. [🔗 merlin.ghost.io]
4️⃣ Google’s insistence on a privacy policy for an app that collects no user data, unlike Google itself, led to this gem of a webpage. [🔗 jwz.org] (Via Matt Fantinel)
5️⃣ Gina Trapani’s ‘My Life in Weeks’ is so cool and very similar to a Timeline project I’ve had in mind. [🔗 weeks.ginatrapani.org] (Also via Matt Fantinel)
6️⃣ Birchtree, one of my favorite blogs, by Matt Birchler has a fresh redesign. It’s much more web-app-y, which I’m not sold on, but certainly provides more utility. I generally read everything via RSS anyway, and clicking through to the post on the site is still a good, clean reading experience. It’s a good site, check it out! [🔗 birchtree.me]
7️⃣ Vsauce on YouTube built a nifty machine that helps show off words that are palindromes (same word when spelled backwards and forwards) and emordnilaps (different words when spelled forwards and backwards). [▶️ youtube.com]
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.
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2025-02-26 09:04:00
It’s a Studio Neat product, so it’s no wonder that this little auto-retract utility blade is so svelte, so handy, so handsome, and so unassuming. I tried cheap, similar solutions while waiting for my Kickstarter’ed Keen to ship and they’re clumsy and bad. Keen rocks and is very good!
I leave it magnetically attached to my fridge, ready for opening boxes, bags, and envelopes. Now I’m never digging around to find a box opener.
Do I love the price ($95)? No, of course not. But I do smile every time I use it, and I don’t regret making the purchase!
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 sharing my work. Your support is much appreciated!
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