cschrader

jamesthomson, 3 months ago to random

I can finally properly show off the Dice by PCalc prototype I built at the Apple Vision Pro lab in August!

This is quite far away from being an actual product, but it does look very pretty.

Dice, a banana, duck are dropped into a wooden tray.

cschrader, 3 months ago to random

aging models with cracked frames that workers in an Upper Darby repair shop have kept running on the system’s most heavily traveled line with “hoagies of steel.”

https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/septa-replacement-fleet-market-frankford-el-20240216.html

cschrader, 3 months ago to random

Good news, US nuclear weapons have not depended on floppy disks for a whole five years now

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk0.kZLD.aybI41xtJC1H&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

thunderbird, 3 months ago to productivity

I had to pause my music to write this post, because anything with lyrics pulls me into the song and out of what I'm working on!

And that's something I've wanted to ask you: when you're trying to focus on work, do you put on music WITH lyrics or WITHOUT lyrics?

#Productivity #Focus

BONUS: Post your favorite "focus" tracks or albums here and tag us. We're making playlists 🎧

~Jason

A classic scene from the film Pulp Fiction, with Jules saying "Oh I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?"

cschrader, 3 months ago to random

I did not know either of these tricks for iOS messages! Finally, the gif button is “above the fold”, where it belongs

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/11/ios-17-imessage-apps-photos-more/

cschrader, 4 months ago to random

you know how people sometimes call the remote the clicker? it's because of this!

https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month

cschrader, 4 months ago to random

Give every last fuck you have to living things with beating hearts and breathing lungs and open eyes, with chloroplasts and mycelia and water-seeking roots, with wings and hands and leaves. Give like every fuck might be your last.
Because here’s what I’ve learned: if you give your fucks to the unliving—if you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates—you will run out of fucks.

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/unified-theory-of------

cschrader, 4 months ago to random

I’d recommend everyone update to iOS 17.3 and enable stolen device protection.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-releases-ios-and-ipados-17-3-with-collaborative-playlists-stolen-device-protection-new-black-unity-wallpaper-and-more/

cschrader, 4 months ago to random

RIP to a real one: Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/

cschrader, 4 months ago to random

Jam of the day: Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - B-Side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgugkEB-q_Q

cschrader, 4 months ago to random

We watched the original PBS Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego game show today, and it is HARD. How can these kids find so many countries on a blank map?

cschrader, 4 months ago to philadelphia

This is what my street looks like right now, and the #philadelphia streets department just came through and collected my recycling while it’s actively snowing. However much sanitation workers make, it’s not enough.

cschrader, 4 months ago to random

@viticci are you happy with your Logitech vertical mouse?

sean, 5 months ago to random

This increasingly-popular pattern of “you don’t have a password, we’ll just email you a token each time you log in” is truly obnoxious for those of us who have a good password/security practice.

cschrader, 5 months ago to random

@caseyliss I just heard on the talk show that you’re working on being able to query Callsheet for “what movie were these two people in together”

I have wanted that so many times, to the point where I debated downloading the IMDB dataset to run SQL queries back when that was possible.

So thanks!

cschrader, 5 months ago to random

In summary, cats who fetch largely determine when they engage in fetching sessions and actively influence the play behaviour of their owners.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47409-w

cschrader, 5 months ago to random

@alexhillman is jawns.club one of the servers that are preemptively blocking threads, or will those users be allowed to federate?

cschrader, 5 months ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfA3CiWW4b0

dnanian, 5 months ago to random

Here's an iOS question: Messages aren't showing up for me in CarPlay (so, I missed them sitting in the Logan Cell Phone lot waiting).

A friend has a "Show in CarPlay" toggle in Messages notification settings...but that's not there for me.

Anyone know what's going on?

overholt, 5 months ago to random

A giant task: the hefty 12th century Lambeth Bible has now been fully digitized. https://monumentoffame.org/2023/12/15/a-giant-task-digitising-the-lambeth-bible/

Initial containing a horned Moses communicating with God (detail of MS 3, f. 52r)

schmeterpitz, 8 months ago to philadelphia

Drove across the Strawberry Mansion Bridge on my way home through West Fairmount Park today. Thought about how this whole area was seriously in the running to be the site of the United Nations, once. #philly #philadelphia #phillyhistory

GossiTheDog, 1 year ago to random

I’m still pissed at Elon for two things:

1. making me learn how to spell Mastodon
2. that he didn’t buy and ruin LinkedIn instead