I decided to sub to Hallide again. The Mark III update looks great and the built in “looks” add that extra speed in choosing, well, the right look. I’m looking forward to testing it out when I want to be more considered in my photography. Right now it’s on my lock screen and I’m keeping Ap

My smoke alarm went off at 4am. I (in my dream) thought it was my normal alarm and kept sleeping. My wife woke me to say the smoke alarm is going off. I get up and start to get out of the bedroom. My daughter walks into our room to complain about the noise. I then went through the house, basically l

Grug get download, you get happy. https://apps.apple.com/app/id6751649802

Vinland Saga is a very intense anime not for the feint hearted. Over 2 seasons the show confronts the viewer with revenge, war, violence and the hope of peace. At times the brutality was hard to watch but was justified with the overall message of pacifism. Highly recommended.

Apparently no one has thought about combining different platforms into one, well just Mastodon and Bluesky. Indigo seems to be scratching the itch for some people and that’s fine by me. I have noticed that is slower than Tapestry and doesn’t seem to show all posts in a thread. Hopefully just tee

I don’t understand how they can mess the live action Star Wars franchise up so badly but the cartoons are still great. Highly recommend to watch Maul Shadow Lord. A good mix of serious light sabering, emotion and decent character development.

The Action button on iPhone is unreachable.

My camping trip took place in Walpole, Western Australia. One of the highlights from nature were these mushrooms. I hope you like them too.

I’ve been on camp all week and basically Airplane mode for 4 days. I turned it off and basically hate everything. Time to dumb my phone down again.

I recently found a ring that belonged to my grandad and decided to been wear it as my wedding ring. It was too big and had a knack of sneaking off my finger. It has a history of being lost, once in the handle bars of a bike and another time it fell off in the ocean. Both times it returned to my gran

Though I started with a Garmin, there is really one killer “feature” that keeps me locked into the Apple Watch and that feature is running iPhoneless. There is such a feeling of freedom when running with an Apple Watch with cellular. I can listen to music, podcasts and audiobooks (my current fa

I have been algorithm’d into watching Garmin vs Apple Watch YouTube’s and its common to hear that “Elite Runners” all wear Garmin. Most of these YouTuber’s use a Fenix 8 (A$1849) to compare, which is approximately A$450 more than an Apple Watch Ultra and often not mentioned. After Sabastia

I’ve been playing Animal Well on my Switch 2 and it is such a joy to play. I have not finished it yet and have no idea the length but I would recommend it as a great side scrolling puzzler (Metroidvania). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Well

I have updated my Tot to Pika Shortcut which resolves an odd newline issued when converting to markdown. It seems to work without that step. I have updated my original post but here is the updated Shortcut https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a6fb74acd4cf473e9a1bad4f93965711

Something is odd with my shortcut. I’ll stick to drafts posting until I figure it out.

I have this knack of loosing interest in games when I hit the final boss. Case in point, I’ve managed to get all the way to Lost Lace in Silksong and I have basically stopped playing. It happened in Metroid Dread too. I think it’s because they are so difficult and there is nothing after. 🤷

It works! But I’ve added a choice to publish or draft. 🤷

Let’s see if my shortcut to post to Pika from Tot works.

More adventures with my family lead to this great shot of South Perth. We headed out for a wine cruise and had a great day.

This is my first test of using Micropub in Pika which was added overnight (https://pika.pika.page/posts/micropub-api-with-ia-writer-and-drafts-support). I’ve set this up using iA Writer.

Yesterday we got some great shots with Black Cockatoos, Kangaroos and Koalas.

Why doesn’t my Pika blog icon not show in #TapestryApp.

Our family from Canada arrived yesterday and one of the group had not seen a beach since being a child so we had to walk down for the sunset. I even enjoyed capturing some photos, especially the orange reflections. I hope you look like them too.

I cannot decide between Starlight and Blue so I’m going in to Apple Store to choose. Yes, I think I have caved and getting a pair.

My daughter and I had a go at ChatGPT in CarPlay yesterday and it was great. She practiced her French speaking, which worked so well.

I’m seriously considering getting a pair AirPod Max 2. I just don’t know if I’d use them more than my AirPods Pro and what benefits am I getting 🤷‍♂

I have no idea what people are complaining about, I am too busy over here working to even notice the new icons and how “inconsistent” they are.

Today whilst running I thought about how the Internet would be so much better if every tool/network/app just stayed in their own lane and not duplicate all the good ideas. Facebook was about friends and family, Instagram sharing cool photos, YouTube for videos, TikTok for short form etc. Also ads ju

Today I got handed a MacBook Neo to try for the week. So far it is quite delightful but I definitely love my MacBook Air more. All is running very well except for (in no preference or order): - Display brightness and no True Tone - Noisy trackpad click (fixed by turning on touch tapping) - Bat

I just read ‘The Last Quiet Thing’ (https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing) by Terry Godier and I appreciate the sentiment (and the nice design) but I’m sorry Terry, it is my fault. I bought the gear knowing full well what it would do. It is up to me to make my life less digitally di

Last week I decided to remove all the health and habit widgets from my Apple Watch and iPhone and it’s working really well. I am still happy to collect the data, I just don’t need to look at it all of the time. It’s actually a really nice digital detox.

I nearly bought a pair of AirPods Max last week so it’s kinda funny that version 2 just got announced. What’s more funny is how much my wife thought they cost. These things are freaking expensive.

My new favourite weather app just got released and it’s amazing. Sunshine (https://mattro.design/sunshine/) is the best looking weather app I have used and it also has the best widgets too. I love how it shows the important weather data I need now, the future and also what the weather was really l

Thanks to Liquid Glass, I have the freaking prettiest #homescreen

Lately I have been experimenting with the thinking models in Copilot and have been happy to see GPT 5.4 Thinking hit in the last few days. What I have realised when using these models is that there is more than just predicting happening. These thinking models create actual code and process the data

If you can see the MacBook Neo for what it is and how much it costs, then there are just zero complaints. Nice work Apple.

I’ve been waiting for the release of version 3 ASICS Superblasts (https://www.asics.com/au/en-au/superblast-3/p/AOP_1013A177-400.html?size=10&width=Standard) for a while now, today I put my order in. Can’t wait to take them for a run.

This is a great read (unfortunately a substack feed) from the Learning Dispatch about how notifications disrupt cognitive processing for up to seven seconds (https://carlhendrick.substack.com/p/how-much-cognitive-damage-does-a?r=3okzrb&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true). A good time to reduce more o

Does anyone have any recommendations for new tech podcasts that aren’t hosted by old guys who want their computers to be like they were 10 years ago and just keep complaining when stuff changes? I think I went through this years ago with the Twit network and I ended up finding Connected (The Promp

ATP host whining about Apple design like they know what they are talking about, then they share their home screen setups. Their justification seems like they don’t even know how iOS even works.

Looks like Anthropic is going to be the test case for Big Tech not doing what stump wants.

I have just cancelled my Carrot Weather subscription. I’ve been a user for so long but I’ve got a new app lined up, which is working great. Hopefully an Apple Watch version will be released sooner rather than later as that is something I use often. My sub expires March 26 🫣

Today I started working on an Agent that gives critically analysis of idea that a teacher might have for using AI in the classroom and tell them if it adds any education value or should they just use good teaching practice.

Stopped using 1Password year ago, I survived.

This Summertime Sounds Playlist by CYRIL (https://music.apple.com/au/album/summertime-sounds-2026-cyril-dj-mix/1855482802?l=en-GB) could be my new running to when I want to go fast.

My daughter just got asked by Roblox to prove her age with a photo. Her account is managed by me through parent controls where I have already set her age. I did not authorise Roblox taking a photo of my child. I’m not impressed.

Got me some “voices” in #TapestryApp. 🫳🎤

I convinced my Apple Watch that Thursday is a rest day.