Absolutely FLOORED by Yancey’s TED talk. Been following him for many years and supporting his ideas, big and small. This is maybe the biggest of them all. A lot of people talk about supporting artists and creators, but Yancey has made it his mission and I truly believe it will be his legacy.
I wonder when someone will recreate Plaxo or something like it. I have wondered this a lot. Contacts are another thing that continue to be an absolute mess, even in 2025. I use Obsidian as my personal information manager. As I meet people I make notes about them to help me remember things about them, when I met them, connections to other people, etc. Maybe I need to get working on an app for myself that can read and write to my contacts base in Obsidian. Hmmm.
I took the kids to the No Kings protest in Culver City. It was great to see friends and so many people turn out. What’s happening, especially in Los Angeles, is absolutely terrible and scary. Feels like it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
I installed the developer betas of iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 and boy do I dislike the new interface. It’s such a fucking mess, especially from an accessibility standpoint. Not good.
20 years ago (on my 31st birthday!) Steve Jobs gave his now-famous Stanford commencement address. I’ve taken to watching it at least once a year, usually on or around my birthday. This year, The Steve Jobs Archive posted a “newly enhanced version” of the address along with some related relics. High recommended, even if you’ve seen it before. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
It’s 2025, we have lots of AI, but my photos are still a fucking mess.
Clone is pretty cool. Link quality feels a little mid or too mainstream a lot of the time. I want weirder links from non-mainstream sources. I visit daily though and can’t say that about a lot of sites.
Worth reading Sam’s latest post, The Gentle Singularity. The challenging thing, at least for me, is not to roll my eyes too much. I can have doubts. How much of what he talks about will really come to pass by 2035? Maybe some. Maybe more. It doesn’t matter if you agree, disagree, drink the Kool-Aid or not. What matters is whether you are capable of catching your cynicism and instead engaging your imagination. How difficult is that for you? Because that is a reflection of how you see the world. You can choose. And your choice won’t have any bearing on the outcome, but it will impact how you live the rest of your life.
Most apps all look the same and have been stripped of any and all whimsy. There are exceptions. Carrot Weather is one such example. !Camera is such a wonderful camera app. Been playing with it the last few days.
Linking to Gruber’s post on Bill Atkinson’s passing. Certainly one of the most important minds in tech. Pancreatic cancer is awful. It took my dad at 61. I really hope it’s one of the cancers we can start detecting earlier.