January 2023 Archives

Sharing again for the morning crowd: I compiled my favorite albums of 2022. Take a look if you love music! Maybe you'll find something new to listen to.

I’ve been waiting patiently for the Honda Civic Hybrid to be released in North America. Just read that it’ll be a 2024 model now. Why is Honda so slow to release such an important car in the US? It really sucks that US market only cares about larger vehicles.

If it's true that Twitter's infrastructure is silently crumbling by not delivering mentions or replies, then I don't see how it will be useful for anyone. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/23/twitter-frum-crumbling

Fortunately Fedifinder still works!

Movetodon.org has been down for a couple of days. Hope it’s not gone forever.

Are notifications working on the micro.blog iOS app? They seem to have stopped working for me. I wonder if this has to do with switching from Test Flight to the App Store version?

Now is a good time to see if you're using Twitter to log into any services. Wouldn't want to be locked out of any service if Twitter closes shop and doesn't tell anyone. Go to More > Settings and Support > Settings and Privacy > Security and account access > Apps and Sessions.

So long Twitterrific! Thank you for all of the wonderful things you brought to the world.

Twitter just killed Twitterrific for macOS. I guess that's the end of the road for third-party apps.

Every year, I try to take a look at what's new with third-party macOS email clients. There are always a few that look promising, then eventually I find that it's missing features that are essential to my workflow.

Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content.

I'm sure there will be more lawsuits to come…

This is weird. I was just able to authenticate and sign into Tweetbot on iOS.

Sarah Ander­sen, Kelly McK­er­nan, and Karla Ortiz have filed a class-action lawsuit against Stability AI, DeviantArt and Midjourney for their use of Stable Diffusion. It will be interesting to see where this takes things.

This NPR story, In praise of being late: The upside of spurning the clock was thought provoking and it might be polarizing too. Are you a “clock time” or “event time” type of person?

An update from Iconfactory: State of the Twitterverse. Seems like Twitterrific on macOS is still functioning, iOS is not.

Looking at connected apps in my Twitter profile, Tweetbot and Twitterrific iOS have both been removed. I guess their keys were revoked?

Third-party iOS Twitter app Aviary still works. This seems like a pretty targeted attack.

Looks like all third-party Twitter clients can't authenticate or log in to Twitter. None of the developers have heard back from Twitter as to whether or not it's a bug or a "new rule".

R.I.P. Jeff Beck… Thank you for the music

What website(s) are you using if you blog about movies / TV shows and want to link to general info about them? Is it still IMDB, or is there something better?

After figuring out a place for the display card and slapping it back together with some temp tape… Success! Even works with iPad Pro with Stage Manager!

January project: gut an old 27" iMac and turn it into a 5K external display. How it's going…