After relating an adorable story from when she was little to my 12-yo daughter, I joked, "Yeah, you guys don't do anything cute anymore." She immediately replied, "Yeah well you don't do anything that's impressive to us anymore." R.I.P. Jason Kottke, 1973-2023.

this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism Is illegal to build in many american cities

Dug through an old external drive last week and found a long lost gem!

In high school I went through a phase of elaborately redesigning my desktop and keeping a screenshot record each time.

Much skeuomorphism. Many novelty icons. I miss this time.

https://maggieappleton.com/teenage-desktop

gems like these are why you always dig around in an app’s resource files

(from Xscope by @Iconfactory)

The internet is healing.

It also feels like something at the end of the show bears repeating: @Gargron, and all the other folks who have been working tirelessly for the past seven years, saved our asses.

To all of you who had the foresight to build Mastodon, a sincere THANK YOU. We're in your debt.

Things gains automation superpowers today, with a huge update for Apple Shortcuts. We’ve also prepared a gallery with some great shortcuts for you.

Check it out: https://culturedcode.com/things/blog/

@jaredwhite

🧘‍♀️a yoga pants store aimed at Gen Xers called Such Great Tights that only ships via the postal service

Tip: Upgrade your text-based posts and notes with Unicode equivalents (without needing Glyphboard) by using iOS/Mac’s text replacement feature. Use the ascii equivalent as the trigger and copy/paste the Unicode character from somewhere as the replacement. There’s likely an Android & Windows method to accomplish the same.

For example, upgrade from this ugly combo -> to this → by setting up a replacement and letting it do its thing. Or go from 2*2 (or worse: 2x2) to 2×2. Tons of possibilities.

Say Hello to Ivory. We are now available to all on Apple’s App Store! We have launched as “Early Access” because we still have a lot of exciting plans ahead of that will make Ivory even better. Go download it, try it free for 7 days, and experience it for yourself!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

@anildash @jenn I realized I was paid to make tables too in the 90s. That sketch finally makes sense to me.

Oh, and just like that, I am enjobbed again. And via the fediverse, no less!

👏 👏 👏 @paul 👏 👏 👏 Still a million things to do, but what a great milestone for this new journey.

Happy lunar new year! 🌙🌊🐇

#mastoart #creativetoots #yearoftherabbit #lunarnewyear #digitalart

The cat just went over to the HomePod mini on my desk, meowed at it, and Siri said "sure here is some music for you" and the cat perched on the window sill listening to Garbage and Elliott Smith.

I just want to know how long this has been going on.