Great Vox video on app addictiveness. I do remember pull to refresh in Tweetie more fondly and less conspiratorially.
microblog
A full stream of microposts.
[…] Assistant will be able to understand you in multiple languages fluently.
Wow. Will work first on English, French and German, but this is amazing.
Well, movie night got off to a fun start. Stuck in a loop with Apple TV and recovery mode.
Apple TV hard reset was mostly painless. Sadly FetchTV crashes on launch (long live Fetch!). Moving my put.io based entertaiment to Squire — which is looking pretty good.
Why It’s so Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices
A member of the cleaning staff— a young Spanish-speaking woman with a tight ponytail— was one of the few people actually working. She moved quietly, picking up the dirty mugs that people had left lying about and stacking them into the dishwasher. Her shirt was emblazoned with the company slogan: Do What You Love.
The best closing paragraph I’ve read this year.
Finally a lower priced Nest Aware plan ($5 a month, 3$ additional camera). My Nest wishlist from two years ago is almost done — just need better notifications.
Still happy with my WyzeCams, not likely to buy additional Nest’s.
Here’s hoping that changing the iBooks name to Books, is mostly related to an upcoming laptopesque iOS device with a keyboard.
Enjoyed this scientifically anecdotal comparison of Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze. Costa Rica is total Waze country, but I just can’t get use the UI/UX.
Con mi otra consentida.
This Community mini reunion was very enjoyable..
En la aventura actual no tenemos selfies sin enanos sonrientes, juguetes desordenados y ojeras sin fiestas. Pero todo eso son aún más capas (no tan fotogénicas) de felicidad. Feliz cumpleaños mi @anitamarcela.
The idea of text to speech is always compelling, but I haven’t been able to use it consistently. Curious to give Polly a try again.
Scribd’s new unlimited* books and audiobooks subscription is very compelling.
Going to check it out. I cancelled my Audible subscriptions last year because the credits model gave me anxiety when I fell behind.
Every time I read a company is rejoining its parent, I hear the same sharpening of the knife used when Newton Inc was brought back to Apple. Good luck Nest.
By the by, I’m loving my 4 WyzeCam’s. Probably being streamed live in a bunch of Chinese websites (which is why kid’s rooms still on Nest), but for common areas they work great and give a lot of bang for the buck.
Simple Print is an web article cleanup and PDF that almost makes wanna print all articles. This could be useful for sharing articles with a class or meeting.
Blade Runner 2049. WOW, just wow. Love it when regardless of if it’s the story I wanted to see, you get the best version of a story someone wanted to tell.
Walmart and Rakuten take on Amazon with Kobo e-reader alliance
Happy about this. Kobo makes great devices and the e-ink devices market could benefit from increased competition.
Added to wishlist.
🔗 20 Things I Learned From Becoming Warren Buffett
Gotta see that documentary.
If you’d ever cleaned a car seat or stroller, you could never support space travel for children. We could decimate any alien ecosystem with germ contamination.
Saw Atomic Blonde last night. Enjoyed it. Wasn’t familiar with the comic, but the influence in style is clear.
Microsoft says security fixes will noticeably slow older PCs
If aliens wanted to affect our global computing power just a tiny bit and keep us distracted… this is exactly how’d write it.
Giving Alfred a try again. Spotlight works, but I miss a bit more power. Even suffering relearning my LaunchBar tricks, the speed difference in very noticeable.
Macdrifter carefully explains how blogs are dead or dying, and he’s also not into newsletters.
Intel’s KPTI flaw is really bad, but be ready to extreme simplifications. No 30% slowdown for most users it seems.
Brent Simmons is going to post more on micro.blog, and so am I.
“wake up early” is an eternal failed resolution my life. Trying an alternative this year:
Realize that anything after 5am is sleeping late.
Interesting HN comments on Wired’s Kindle piece. Many only use Kindle for fiction and print books for non-fiction. I do all fiction on Kindle and non-fiction on iPhone — for convenience of reading snippets throughout the day.
Finally saw The Last Jedi. Spoiler free thoughts: 1. Glad I only watched the first trailer. 2. Rogue One still my favorite Disney era movie. 3. Don’t need to digest much, it’s a first reaction kinda movie.