Speaking of #RSS, I love this piece by @anildash.com.

I've always wondered if one of the biggest differences in adoption between podcasts and text-based RSS feeds is that "podcast" has a catchy ring to it, and "really simple sindication" does not. Neither does "RDF site summary". It makes me further wonder if @textcasting.org (by @scripting.com) is more important as (re-)branding for text-based RSS feeds than it is as an actual new standard.

I've been looking for good resources to introduce people to #RSS and this looks like a great one by @interconnected.org!

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

I've thought about this @stephango.com blog post at least once per week for the last ~18 months.

Just added this to my inspired by hall of fame.

Link to: https://daringfireball.net/2006/11/beta_excuse

I still haven't used @htmx.org, but I've read the #HyperMedia book and I'm a big fan of their ideas and where the project is headed overall. 🚀

#html #htmx #javascript

This is hands-down my favorite craft cocktail website. 🍹

I'm loving the new @vw.com ID Buzz.

And my new scrolling image gallery. 😎

👈🏽 Swipe 👉🏽

More like fast trashion, amirite? :sweat_smile:

Keep it on the markdown-low First post with my custom #markdown parser. Here's a little sample code block to show off the <code> syntax highlighting. 1<!DOCTYPE html> 2<html lang='en-US'> 3 <head> 4 <meta ht-include='p...

Just started reading "Filterworld", by @kylechayka.com, and it starts with a picture from one of my favorite Wikipedia pages of all time. I think I'm gonna like this book!

#NowReading

TIL about the #HTML <base> element!

It’s WWDC time. The keynote starts in less than an hour! Here's a few of the things I'm hoping to see, almost none of which will make headlines.

The second annual Automation April event, hosted by Federico Viticci and John Voorhees at MacStories, is just one day away from wrapping up.
I just completed my submissions and I'm looking forward to trying all of the winning Shortcuts!

If you're at least somewhat interested in optimizing your personal productivity there's a good chance that you use also use a todo list app.
If so, you likely spend a lot of time _multi-tasking_ between your calendar and todo list — literally correlating your calendar events (when is my next meeting?) with your todo list (what is my next task?) in an effort to optimize your productivity.
If you are just now realizing that you do this all the time, and that this is actually quite _inefficient_, then this post is for you!

My my number one question about the Apple Watch Ultra wasn't about the size or the bands or any of the details you can find in just about any of the serious reviewers' analysis to date.
It wasn't even about the battery life per se.
It was about the charging _routine_.

My first encounter with an AI chat bot was legendary.
I regret nothing.

I haven't updated the blog since mid-November, but for good reason.
I started a new company and launched my first product in the App Store!

Originally posted on @sheesh.blog.

Brent Simmons, of NetNewsWire fame¹ (among other things), in "After Twitter" on his personal blog, inessential:

A New Hope

With the fall of the Twitter consensus I am energized. I remember what it was like in the 2000s; I remember the liveliness and sparkle of those days on the web.

I don’t suggest dialing the clock back to old tech, but I hope we use the good parts from those days to help us build new and amazing things. There is so much to do, and so many grand problems to solve.

The web is wide open again, for the first time in what feels like forever.

Originally posted on @sheesh.blog.

As soon as you have 20 minutes to spare, I encourage you to go watch this short film about Sally Schmidt, produced by Oscar® award winning documentary filmmaker Ben Proudfoot, for the @nytimes.com¹.

Speaking of restaurants, Sally started a little establishment you might have heard of called The French Laundry. 🤌

Casey Newton was on the Vergecast in July to talk about how BeReal is taking over.
On the podcast he described his "pop-up restaurant theory of social networks", which he has been talking about since at least 2018:

> I have this pop-up restaurant theory of social networks, which is: _every restaurant is basically the same, but sometimes a pop-up will open up in your neighborhood and all of the foodies start going there, and they've just kinda remixed the ingredients a little bit, and for two weeks all everyone wants to talk about is this restaurant_.

This post explores whether this _pop-up restaurant theory_ can be applied to apps in general, not just social media.

Last month the **@microsoft** Twitter account tweeted something relevant to my interests:

> What’s the best advice you’ve received on how to maintain work-life balance?

This post explores the importance of the wording in the phrase "work-life balance", and my quest to promote a better alternative.

The 2022 operating system updates from Apple will bring a much needed improvement to Mail.app: the ability to schedule emails to send later. While Apple is playing catch up here, it still lags behind on a similar ability for Messages.app.

This post explores a simple workaround to schedule text messages to send later on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that doesn't require any third-party apps.

It's WWDC time.
The rumor mill has run its course, and the usual suspect Apple pundits have weighed with their predictions and wish lists.
Since I'm trying my hand at this blogging thing I thought it might be fun to write down my own personal wish list.

Have you ever wished you could use Slack-style emoji codes like `:facepalm:` in other apps on your Mac or iPad?
Wish no more!
`:nerdface:`

Originally posted on @sheesh.blog.

I can't remember the last time I read a book from front to back¹, but I am a voracious reader. The thing is, I prefer to read "the internet" instead of books.

At some point early on in my internet journey I discovered #RSS and I immediately fell in love². My RSS feed became like my own personal newspaper, where I was the curator. I could add and remove columnists blog feeds as my interest graph would change over time. I was one of the many³ who decried the death of Google Reader. RSS lives on, but it's not as ubiquitious as it once was.

Originally posted on @sheesh.blog.

Every new blog should start with an obligatory "hello, world" — so here I am doing just that.

"I’ve started seven different blogs.
Every one had one post."

My experience with blogging has generally rhymed with the experience a former co-worker of mine had who said "I've started seven different blogs. Every one had one post." – Derek Newsom.

Something feels different this time, but only time will tell.

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