Now listening to: the album MOSS by Maya Hawke. 🎵
My phone seems to reboot overnight quite often since ios16. This happened on the betas too.
New hats.
Every day at around the same time my MacBook Pro’s fans go into jet engine mode and I have no idea why. This machine does not use Time Machine, so it’s not backups.
This little guy was hopping through the grass and was about the size of my fingernail.
Sounds like they are going to start shipping Playdates to group 3 in October.
Whatever happened to that Black Star album that was coming out on an audiobook or podcast network? Did anyone ever listen?
This Community Lego idea is awesome. Instant buy if it gets made.
Apparently, we’ve all been pronouncing ‘Toronto’ wrong.
It’s a little concerning that it seems like the entire Cardinals pitching staff has arm fatigue right before the playoffs. ⚾️
Dynamic Island Interactions are Backwards
I was listening to the latest episode of The Talk Show this morning and Nilay Patel laid out exactly what bothers me about the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pros: the interactions are backwards.
I couldn’t pinpoint what exactly it was that was bothering me until he said it and then it made sense. When I touch on an app in the Dynamic Island, I believe it should open the smaller, interactive widget version of the app that is currently only accessible with a long touch. The point is the island is to have quick interactions with running apps that need your attention. The best way to do that is by a simple touch. Instead, as a Pro Max user, I have to adjust my hand for balance and a long touch to interact with the island. It’s not exactly convenient.
In Patel’s review on The Verge he says:
Here’s where I think Apple missed the mark a little: in the keynote and all the ads, the island is shown as a thing that’s worth interacting with — it’s always moving around and going back and forth between the main view and the expanded view. In reality, well, it’s not like that at all.
The island isn’t a primary interface element; it sits over whatever app you’re actually using, and apps are still the main point of the iPhone. In fact, tapping on the island doesn’t open that expanded widget view; it just switches you back to whatever app that controls the widget. To get the expanded widget that’s shown in all the ads, you have to tap and hold. This feels exactly backwards to me. I think a tap should pop open the widget, and I also think you should at least be able to choose between the two behaviors.
I hope this is something they consider changing, or at least a toggle, because it’d be much better if touching opened up the mini app and a long touch opened the app itself.
Hit the Island is a fun game that uses the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island.
Random thought rewatching a show from 2000s: the era of TV where every character had a cell phone pre-smart phone was incredibly short.
You should really subscribe to Andy Daly’s blog. Funny Twitter-like thoughts as well as longer posts, including behind the scenes of the latest Comedy Bang! Bang!
Today has been going so slow. I need to stop working at 6 AM.
Watched a video about old timey boxing and why they stand the way they do. In a conversation about rules changing from the old days the host talked about a match in 1983 that lasted 111 rounds. I was born in 1983. I feel old now.
I think I managed to avoid any post-booster issues other than a sore arm.
Off to get a flu shot and a booster. Hopefully the booster won’t kick my butt.
Handsome boy.
