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gruber, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

My Apple Card is expiring this summer, and the replacement physical card arrived in the mail today. Activating was super-duper easy—just bring it in close proximity to your iPhone and tap a button or two on screen. Done.

But what do I do with the old card? It's titanium so it's not easily destroyed.

I've had metal Amex cards since 2010 or so. When Amex sends a replacement card, they include a return envelope custom made for mailing them your expired card for recycling.

[See thread for update]

gruber, 4 days ago to random

Kinda weird that Microsoft isn’t live-streaming this event? Name a big tech keynote in recent years that wasn’t live-streamed. I can’t think of one.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24158827/microsoft-surface-windows-ai-event-live-blog-news-updates

gruber, 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

Thoughts on Apple no longer including stickers with new devices to reduce waste:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/no-more-stickers-with-new-ipads

gruber, 14 days ago to random

Kubrick foresaw high-resolution retina displays in 1968. (To create the effect, they rear-projected high-resolution slides.)
https://botsin.space/@2001faster/112419351491596538

gruber, 17 days ago to random

It has been a good day for Esc key fans.

gruber, 17 days ago to random

@markgurman calling the M4 iPad Pro:

gruber, 1 month ago to random

I get a kick out of knowing that ESPN’s CMS uses Markdown. (I’m guessing the author mistakenly put a space between the square brackets and the parentheses.)

https://apple.news/AT6_sOOi7SHeqFdlIKyVIXA

gruber, 1 month ago to random

“Argylle”: 👎
https://boxd.it/6hbiKz

gruber, 1 month ago to random

Electron.

gruber, 1 month ago to random

Cloudy here, alas. Best shots I got were 30 minutes after the local peak.

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gruber, 1 month ago to random

This must fall under some corollary of Murphy’s Law: on today’s Dithering while talking about this week’s 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, I offhandedly quipped that couldn’t remember the last earthquake I felt here in Philly. And that quip was edited out.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/live/earthquake-in-new-jersey-philadelphia-pennsylvania-20240405.html

gruber, 1 month ago to random

Kubrick predicting iPad-like tablets and vertical video in 1968.
https://botsin.space/@2001faster/112168316108705131

gruber, 2 months ago to random

Merrick Garland has bungled the January 6 insurrection case against Trump so badly that Trump’s likely not to face trial before the election, which, if he wins, will render everything moot and put the very idea of American democracy at the gravest risk it's ever faced.

But he's got the green bubbles thing covered.

gruber, 2 months ago to random

The entire U.S. Constitution is 4,400 words, 4 pages. The Bill of Rights is about 500 words.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/112117411828189070

gruber, 2 months ago to random

@mjgardner So I just upgraded my local install to Perl v5.38.2 (from something like 5.34?) and started getting warnings now about given-which being deprecated. I grok the explanation but it's a shame because given-which is so readable. What are you doing instead? Just if-elsif-elsif-…-else? Something else?

gruber, 2 months ago to random

Exactly the sort of attention to detail I've come to expect from The New Yorker:

gruber, 2 months ago to random

Every few weeks the same thing with Signal for Mac. Same for WhatsApp. Only iMessage gets this right and treats non-phone devices as first-class clients that can actually log in on their own.

gruber, 3 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

If you own an Apple FineWoven iPhone case and have used it regularly for the last few months:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/02/24/finewoven-joanna-stern

gruber, 3 months ago to random

What are the best / most popular PWAs for phones? Bonus points for ones that work better on Android, double bonus if they only work on Android.

First two on my list (neither of which seem to work any better on Android/Chrome than iOS/WebKit):

https://phanpy.social/

https://app.color.io/

gruber, 3 months ago to random

Never ceases to amuse me when Markdown formatting leaks through a CMS.

gruber, 3 months ago to random

This whole thread is an example of how good Apple’s retail operation is. https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/111937631554640791

gruber, 3 months ago to random

Mozilla should definitely do this. And then when it goes nowhere, everyone will finally agree that PWAs were never a great platform for mobile apps. Right? https://indieweb.social/@whalecoiner/111940727614198057

gruber, 3 months ago to random

Launching apps via voice is often quicker than navigating to the app on the home view (especially because you can’t arrange apps on the home view). But:

“Siri, open PEE-calc” = launches Peacock

“Siri, open puh-CALC” = launches PCalc

gruber, 3 months ago to random

1.0.2 is out. My second VisionOS update.

gruber, 3 months ago to random

The time some guy named Josh Gruber tried to badger me into selling him my Instagram account handle for $50.