Billionaires are why we can’t have nice things – a sensible climate policy, workers’ rights, a functional Supreme Court and legislatures that answer to the people, rather than deep-pocketed donors.

I have my quibbles with CD, but he’s got this one straight.

I have so many tabs opened after chewing through Maggie Appleton’s A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden I’ve been fascinated by ideas like these since I learned about Vannevar Bush’s information ideas in college. I really love blogs, I don’t think we need to dump one for another.

Just got my replacement Apple Card. They did a nice job with the minimal and paper-based packaging. To activate the new card, you just tap your phone on the package, and an AirPods-style modal appears. One tap to activate. The package then becomes the return envelope to recycle your old card.

In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family of five in the taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936.

I don’t know why, but I am often drawn to, and fascinated by stories like these.

Cars really rile up my 15-week old puppy. If one passes the yard while I have her out, she gets so aggressive one might think her a 15-minute city urbanist!

I can’t find a word I disagree with in this piece, What if our nation is not built for Climate Change.

We should start now, buying people out of damaged areas on the condition they move to known-safer areas because we can’t as a nation subsidize people rebuilding in places that are risky to their lives, throws our tax money into the flood waters. Turn the newly bought risky land into public conservation lands to absorb the shock, and improve green space at the same time. I’m not saying it’ll be easy.

I’ve been enjoying Apple’s Sports app. The live activities implementation is superb. I wish it would allow me to set a start time reminder of games that do not include my designated favorite teams. Any game I can see on the schedule should allow me able to turn on a one-off reminder for (you can do this for Live Activities today). This is especially great for playoff games. I’d like to be able to set a one-off, per game, or for every game in a particular series.

P.S. I don’t think I use the ESPN app, or LiveSoccer any less than before. Ad-funded sports app are not good for quick score checks, as they really want you to hang out there.

I’m taking a call from a colleague who is generously sharing his input on the feature I’m designing. Halfway through, my 15-week old puppy walks across the room and begins to slowly 💩 in front of me. Helpless, there was nothing I could but watch with a dismayed face. 😔

TFW that design spec you’ve been working on for weeks finally gets presented to the full team and no one finds major flaws 😁 I continue to push us in a direction where devs are more collaborative in the design, so the specs are almost unneeded when the feature is “done”. But change can be slow.

The thing I didn’t consider is that many areas Milton will cross has a ton of debris that came down during Helene that they won’t be able to move in time. That stuff could all become projectiles.

How Regenerative Braking Works — if you’d like see how EVs can recharge themselves, this guy built a cool rig to show you how it works and talks about the science behind it.

This climate scientist wants you to know that while we may be near to some climate tipping points that are very bad (melting permafrost that releases a lot of greenhouse gases, a shutdown of a major Atlantic current), there are are also other looming tipping points that are climate positives, such as EV adoption, and superior economics of renewable energy compared to fossil fuels.

Danny MacAskill rides around the Adidas HQ — the title sounds boring only if you’ve never seen Danny ride, or don’t understand how cool Adidas’ HQ grounds are.

Sending out congratulations to Dave Winer for entering his thirtieth year of his blog, Scripting News. In honor of Dave and all his contributions to blogging, his creation of RSS and OPML, and of course podcasting, I am making a blog post without a title.

Does anyone have any experience with helping older adults transition from passwords to passkeys? (Apple devices in this situation)

1. MKBHD is splitting revenues from his app with the app’s content creators, 50/50. Yet he has a problem with Apple’s 30/70 split with developers?
2. I learned about how Bear Blog does analytics by watching a particular attribute of CSS to see if an actual human is visiting.
3. Meta Orion Glasses I have not listened to the interview or seen the keynote spoken so highly about in this post, but AR glasses to me are the next frontier. Looks like Meta may be on to something. P.S. I will never buy anything from Meta.
4. “Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a connected laptop or video game console” via Dan Gillmor
5. The mayor of NYC has been indicted on allegations of bribery and illegal campaign contributions from foreign governments. When people tell you “all politicians are bad” they are wrong. When they tell you all political parties are bad, they are disingenuous. The Democratic Party will turn on Eric Adams. The GOP has just circled their wagons around their criminal candidate since 2016, illegal actions be damned.(Disclosure, I have never been a member of any political party)

For 3 & 4: Surveillance capitalism sucks and we need government to get involved. No one (or organization) should be able to follow you around and keep tabs on you. Not advertisers, not social networks, not household appliances, not personal vehicles, not ISPs.

I’d really like to do daily recaps of things like these I’ve come across and shared through out the day. But I never do because it’s too much effort to curate.

I just spent 5 minutes watching LinkedIn’s version of TikTok. Most of the content is not good. Save yourself.

I’ve played the drums for ~25 years, it took me until tonight to actually record at home for someone else’s track. Feels good. I would love to do more of this.

While I was picking up groceries, I saw a Sprinter van drive by me labeled “Andover Mobile Town Hall”—which was a thing I’ve never heard of before. Apparently it’s funded by a state grant.

Spitting rain, breezy, chilly. A positively English setting for my daughter’s soccer match this morning. (Plus I have the BBC Newcastle play by play in one year. Hopefully her team won’t be as rubbish as NUFC are playing so far)

Could we capture carbon dioxide in the ocean (at a much larger scale than the ocean does naturally)? Yes, and it seems a “free” byproduct is “green hydrogen” (hydrogen produced as a fuel without carbon combustion) Let’s hope this is a breakthrough.

Today the middle school play cast list is revealed. Will my daughters return home happy or distraught?

Trying Apple’s focus radio station (which I think is customized to each member?) this afternoon. So far, it’s playing the type of music I would work to.

iOS 18: I didn’t think there was something more frustrating than the icon rearrangement algorithm on the homepage, but iOS 18’s new customizable control center hollers “hold my beer”🤯

Updated my iPhone and iPad Pro (2018) to their new OSs, this afternoon. So far, so good.

It’s September 15. I do not understand the Halloween decorations I’m seeing at a few houses around town…

Parents and spectators on the sidelines of youth soccer: the worst thing you can do for the development of a player is shouting instructions. They need to learn via experience and thinking on their own. The worst thing you can yell is “kick it!” Kicking the ball without intent is useless—cheer only!