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  • June 5, 2025 8:33pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    Due to some important professional changes, I canceled my Fantastical subscription. It’s a great app that I would recommend anytime, but my current situation no longer justifies the expense. I’ll share more info about all this soon.

  • June 5, 2025 10:35am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    I’m not a gamer. I’m not the typical guy who freaks about Nintendo. I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Kind of tired of those posts about the DS2. 🙄

  • June 4, 2025 7:04am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    Physicality: the new age of UI

    Overall, one can imagine a rounding and softening of the interface through translucent materials looking pretty great.

    There are many thoughtful ideas in this post and I hope Apple will come up with something similar.

  • June 3, 2025 9:26pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    According to Gruber, with some extrapolation, The Mac could be the one to lose the most with this upcoming Apple UI design unification:

    The last thing MacOS needs is more transparency/translucency than it already has.

  • June 3, 2025 7:34am
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    The timing is right, and it’s a clever blog post that explains why Inoreader is a great read-later solution, without mentioning or referring to Pocket. Following the announcement of Pocket demise, people are looking at alternatives and rarely Inoreader get mentioned. With this blog post, they make their case. I do use Inoreader as a read-later service, too. It’s quite capable.

  • June 2, 2025 5:13pm
    Apple & Tech Photography Newsletter
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    Acquired. 🤩 cc @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social

  • June 2, 2025 12:57pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    « Apple Readies WWDC Stream on YouTube Ahead of Keynote Next Week » — MacRumors

    Remember when people were reporting banners being put on display at the Moscone Center and the Internet went wild simply at the look of the banner content?

  • May 31, 2025 10:12pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Are people just discovering that Apple is a corporation, a big one, part of a capitalist system? Really? It’s sad. It is what it is. Empires come and go. That’s not always fun to watch, but it is what it is.

  • May 30, 2025 4:41pm
    Personal Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Close to a personal turning point… I find this to be both exciting and unsettling. I’ll probably share more very soon. 🤞🏻

  • May 30, 2025 7:38am
    Personal Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Since coming back from vacation, my morning routine is simple and is always the same: wake up, make coffee, open up the Mac, read Micro.blog timeline, update the current issue of The Ephemeral Scrapbook, do some photo-processing work, tweak my secret work-in-progress-soon-to-be-revealed website with Elements, and read some news before having breakfast.

  • May 28, 2025 5:40pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    iPhone 26, iPhone 26 Air, iPhone 26 Pro, iPhone 26 Pro Max, then. I called it first.

  • May 28, 2025 3:37pm
    Apple & Tech
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    I just realized that September is in Apple's fiscal 2026 Q1.

    The version naming isn't for users or developers, it's for investors.

    Jeff Johnson https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/114587101013109396

    He has a good point.

  • May 26, 2025 8:23pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    Follow-up to my previous post: I’ll be returning the Ubiquiti G6 Instant camera. It’s a really nice designed device, very Apple-like. But I can’t justify replacing my Dream Router with the Dream Router 7 only to add Wifi 7 and support for Ubiquiti Project. Too bad.

  • May 26, 2025 7:09pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    Ordered and received an Ubiquiti G6 Instant surveillance camera only to discover that UniFi Protect which is required to manage and use that camera isn’t supported on my UniFi Dream Router from 2020. 🙁 I would need to replace my router with a Dream Router 7 if I want to keep the camera. But replacing my router would probably require replacing my two network extenders, too. 😔

  • May 26, 2025 8:02am
    Misc Newsletter
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    Asking for a summarized review of reviews of a product like the NIKKOR Z 70-180mm f/2.8 with Perplexity pro prompt is super cool to get the gist of a product quality and capabilities (here are the results1). We live in exciting times, even if challenging.


    1. I’m not sure if you can open that link, though. ↩︎

  • May 26, 2025 7:36am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    After reading John Siracusa’s articles about Apple current issues and possible remediations this morning (1, 2), I wish I had enough time at my disposal to create timetogotim.org1, a website promoting the need for a change of leadership at Apple.


    1. The domain name is available! ↩︎

  • May 26, 2025 6:22am
    Apple & Tech
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    AI Age Brings The Biggest Acquhire

    Apple’s idea machine seems to be stuck in neutral.

  • May 25, 2025 12:36pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    If Apple’s ‘Solarium UI’ is the UI unification of all Apple platforms, which platform will give up the most of its personality the most? 👀🤔

  • May 25, 2025 10:10am
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    Will Apple’s Solarium UI refresh make us forget about Apple Intelligence and Siri’s lackluster performance or App Store litigation or developers mounting disdain for Apple or Tim Cook questionable leadership in the age of AI?

  • May 25, 2025 7:43am
    Apps & Services Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Catching up recent Micro.blog updates and I really like the new AI-generated categories feature. Coupled with filters, it’s a great way to organize posts not only for me but for the readers. It’s tempting to add many categories, but it could make my blog homepage a little bit crowded. 😅

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