Colin
Devroe

NASA’s DART Mission was fun to watch last night. Waking up to impact observations from around the globe. So fun. Space stuff happens often now. It is great.

Unmark is now $10/year (down from $55/year). All current customers will be automatically adjusted. I want more people to be able to use it. If there are enough upgrades, I’m going to consider rebuilding it from scratch on a modern framework.

I’m imaging the slide decks of cryptocurrency-related startups. Slide 1: Not a scam. Slide 2: Not hacked. Slide 3: Web3. Slide 4: Profit!

The One Drive app eats a lot of resources and I don’t like that it can update itself without warning. If it wasn’t for work I think I’d switch off of One Drive completely.

Looking for something to read, watch, or listen to? Need inspiration? Don’t forget, I have 96 lists of awesome links. You’re sure to find something in there.

I keep jotting down notes to give an update on my thoughts on NFTs, Ethereum’s merge, and cryptocurrency in general only to save them as drafts or delete them. Not because my current opinions aren’t clearly defined, but more so because I’m having trouble making them coherent and concise.

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Stupid 263 2/0/2

I hope everyone who plays is enjoying the daily games.

Switching Stripe Transfer‘s email services from Hover to iCloud+. Too many messages ending up in spam folders using Hover.

Listening to a proper football (soccer) game live while at work. My grandfather would be proud.

Does anyone use SMS via Messages on their Mac? It has never worked reliably for me.

These “Week Notes” posts I see here and there are interesting. I wonder how everyone keeps track during the week.

Released an update to Stupid – my free daily word scramble game – this weekend. It now remembers the letters you’ve backspaced. A few other nips and tucks as well. This being about the 30th release of Stupid in 2022.

I’m looking forward to iOS 16’s new Focus features (where it is switchable with home screen/Lock Screen). But I think I’ll be waiting for a dot release before upgrading. Also, when macOS Ventura ships I’ll likely wait for – the very least – two dot releases.

Have you ever scrolled down to the bottom of an article on a local news website? Thar be dragons!

The crazy summer of work is almost over. I am hoping for a less stressful fall.

My Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens, the kit lens that came with my original Canon DSLR from eons ago, finally gave up. The aperture is kaput. If anyone has one of these lenses just lying around and you no longer will ever use it, I’d be happy to take it off your hands.

Accidentally wrote some code that did 360 billion lookups against a database. Oops. My Mac processed it in 7 seconds.

Computers are amazing.

Apple One’s Family Plan should have more storage options. Currently you can purchase 200GB of extra storage for the entire family. Optionally, you can add additional iCloud+ Drive space for $9.99/month but that makes it more expensive than Apple One’s Premier Plan. 200GB for a family was enough in 2005. Today plans should start at 1TB.

Moved all of my accounts from 1Password to, iCloud Passwords (is that what it is called? it isn’t KeyChain, is it?). Now to move Eliza’s and we’ll be done.

Does anyone use iCloud Drive exclusively? I’m currently using One Drive and it is… ok. But why pay for both? Considering moving to iCloud Drive.

I haven’t set aside time exclusively to take photographs since April. I need to shake things up and get back to it.

There needs to be a dry cleaning service for AirPods.