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dnanian

@dnanian@mas.to

Owner of Shirt Pocket. Co-Wrote SuperDuper, BRIEF, Track Record. Wrote netTunes, launchTunes. Unredeemed gadget fan. Dog lover. Not that way.

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christianselig, to random
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Holy crap I'm 30 today. Hope this decade is as fun as the last :)

dnanian,
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@christianselig Happy Birthday, Christian!

film_girl, to random
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So the new Instagram text thing is reported to have ActivityPub support and instead of being happy at all the new labor that could potentially be coming to the standard, Mastodon people are now actively encouraging instances to not federate with any of that stuff. K.

dnanian,
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@glennf @film_girl @Meyerweb @matt Monster. ;-)

gruber, to random
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Anyone else getting noticeably worse battery life with WatchOS 9.5 (including 9.5.1)? I’ve gone from like ~36 hours to under 24.

dnanian,
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@gruber Is it bad that I gave up on smart watches, went back to 100% analog watches (+ an Oura ring) and haven't regretted it for a minute? Power reserve is great, too. 😉

jamesthomson, to random
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Adult life mostly consists of exclaiming “christ, that happened ten years ago!” about a variety of different events until you die.

dnanian,
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@gruber @jamesthomson Synchronicity.

I think I sent this to you when it came up on Hodinkee, but in case I didn't, Christian Gafner has re-introduced the MIH watch, with small (but nice) changes, as the Mechanik2: https://mechanik2.com/

dnanian,
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@gruber I was just thinking that the last time I saw you in person was at C4[1] in 2007, and @jamesthomson even further back at WWDC...2006?

Gah. I'll be out back digging my own grave.

jamesthomson, to random
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PCalc for iOS is 15 years old today, which does not seem possible. As the Mac version is just over 30 years old, that also means at some point very very soon, the iOS version will have been around for more than half of PCalc's entire existence.

If you bought it on day one, I hope you have appreciated the one and a half decades of free updates, and I shall direct you to the tip jar 😉

The About screen for PCalc 1.0.2, which is a lot less exciting that today’s.
The settings section, which isn’t actually very different, aside from the retro iOS theme.
The vertical layout for PCalc 1.0 for iOS, with a very different button layout.

dnanian,
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@jamesthomson @alistairlogie Nah, you didn't do "Farts for PCalc".

dnanian,
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@jamesthomson @alistairlogie Mental age rapidly regressing... :-)

jamesthomson, to random
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I tried the Photoshop beta’s new generative AI stuff, and the first two results it returned for "a hand” do not inspire confidence.

A hand with four fingers.

dnanian,
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@jamesthomson James, you know you need to be more specific in your prompts. “Norman Human Hand With Four Fingers, a Thumb, and Not at All Frightening” should do it.

You might want to add “Please” in there somewhere.

timbray, (edited ) to random
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Dropped by Bluesky for the first time in a while. I'm a Fediperson but still have sympathy with what they're trying to do, and the tone seems to have stabilized for the moment.

Anyhow, I have 30 invites that I haven't thought about in a while, so, giving them away. Reply to this post if you want one. In case that's more than 30 people I will invent totally arbitrary and questionably fair criteria for handing them out.

Maybe stop if there are already a huge number of replies.

dnanian,
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@timbray Would like to see what's up there.

christianselig, to random
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“Dang I wish I could get my app on the cover of The Verge, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, 9to5Mac”

-monkey paw curls-

dnanian,
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@christianselig Man, I’m so sorry, Christian. Hopefully they’ll come to their senses…obviously ridiculous.

film_girl, to random
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Fuck it, my mentions are going to be garbage anyway. For everyone decrying what Gmail did to email, let me remind you that no major free webmail service supported IMAP before Gmail did in 2007. The reason we all get to enjoy push email on our phones and don't have to pay BlackBerry to get it is b/c of IMAP IDLE, which Google forced everyone else to adopt. EEE often leads to better software for everyone and also usually backfires on the company trying to do the EEE.

dnanian,
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@film_girl @Gte Nah, you're doing just fine, Christina.

film_girl, to random
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Google Reader has been dead for TEN years which means I’ve been an @feedbin subscriber for 10 years today! Congrats @benubois on all your hard work and for keeping us in sync for over a decade!

dnanian,
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@film_girl @feedbin @benubois Hard to believe it's been that long, yet here we are.

paul, to random
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Free million $ business idea. Service that re-prints insurance cards but with numbers that are legible without a magnifying glass/phone zoom.

dnanian,
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@paul Also idea: a button that allows you to reach out and slap designers who put tiny serial numbers printed in grey-on-grey text so as to not interfere with the product's appearance (typically on the back).

simonbs, to random
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My girlfriend has arranged a beer tasting of single hopped beers only 🤤

See you on the other side 🫡

dnanian,
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@simonbs Three beers will be fine for your diet, as long as it's not "three beers every hour for a week" - there, you're on your own, buddy.

mako, to random

Next week I look forward to the annual “I shouldn’t install this beta OS on my phone but did anyways” chaos.

dnanian,
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@mako Not to mention the “your program doesn't work with my Mac”…"did you install the developer release?”…”yes, and your stuff should work!” dance.

dnanian, to random
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Nuk -Nuk
For Sale
Slightly Used

dnanian,
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@fahrni I don't think nuk-nuks are ever lightly used, almost by definition. :-)

dnanian, to vinyl
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Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can

The opening track (Devil's Spoke) on this solid album feels a bit like a gloss on KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree", but also rock-influenced folk music in general.

It's a winning formula for her, and another extremely good LP.

dnanian,
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@tldr Ah, non-LP track I haven't heard! I see there's a live version on the deluxe version of "A Creature..." and what looks like the single b/w The Needle and the Damage Done...

dnanian, to random
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XTC - Go2

XTC slumped on their 2nd album. Whether because they were on the road and needed material, or because it was hard to have two Dick-tators in one band (Partridge and Andrews), it’s not clear.

This has some good songs (Moulding is learning how to write, “Are You Receiving Me?” Is great Partridge), but the two Andrews songs aren’t…and “My Weapon”, well, geez.

A shake-up was due, and happened…

This is the new remaster, including the dub Go+.

dnanian,
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@bazcurtis Pretty easy to find used, actually…they made a lot of them!

dnanian, to random
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You have to ask, sometimes, whether battery life claims are even remotely realistic. This is an Apple silicon Mac, on which I was doing email.

dnanian,
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@dustinrue Idle apps. 88.4% idle according to iPulse.

dnanian,
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@dustinrue Sure? But it's not like it should have chowed that much CPU just by waking.

dnanian, to jazz
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Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba

A semi-repeat from back in April - but that was my Dad's original copy, and this is the Verve/Acoustic Sounds re-release...which also sound great.

dnanian,
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@passthejoe Yeah, it's another one of those "records your parents wore out" - or "albums your parents played after they sent you to bed, as they relaxed, with a drink, after a long day".

dnanian, to random
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A future prebuttal.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/even-if-i-had-been-aware-of-ernst-stavro-blofelds-connection-to-those-supreme-court-cases-my-recusal-would-not-have-been-required-or-appropriate

dnanian, to random
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Duran Duran - Duran Duran

I forgot how much this LP roars out of the gate, embracing a straight ahead disco beat. And goes right into Girls on Film, with its big descending minor hook.

This is a big sounding production, with drums slamming bass notes popping, synths washing and guitars stinging.

Great example of how a 2-sided LP can benefit; the first side is more commercial and the second is more experimental.

Anyway - if it’s been a while, given a listen.

dnanian, to random
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A DAT copy of a semi-rough mix of the lost Steely Dan track "The Second Arrangement”, from the Gaucho sessions, was found in Roger Nichols things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAtOuLuO3vU

dnanian, to vinyl
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Madison Cunningham - Revealer

I think I found this through an interview with either Daniel Ash or David J from Love & Rockets. But wherever it was, it was a great recommendation. It has a little bit of an Aimee Mann + Jon Brion feel to it.

Great guitar playing, songwriting, solid band. Thumbs solidly up.

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