Where’s all the AirTags product placement in Apple TV+ content? Everyone has iPhones and MacBooks, but I have yet to see the bank heist or alien invasion foiled by the hero saying “I can tell you exactly where it is.” and flipping open the Find My app. #Apple

Had a lot of fun presenting “Help! Storybook is eating all our tests!” at #MelbJS + #ReactMelbourne tonight. I’ll put up a nice YouTube version tomorrow, but if you’re in a hurry, the stream is here.

Can you imagine if Tom Cruise’s death-defying super-spy character in Mission: Impossible was named “Rollin Hand”? 😂

Not enough people know that the equivalent of Ethan Hunt in the original “Mission: Impossible” TV series, played by Martin Landau, was first named “Martin Land” in the pilot script, and then at the very last minute was renamed “Rollin Hand”. #MissionImpossible

Sent my 2-week-old @playdate@panic.com in for warranty replacement in mid-September. When I chased @panic@panic.com for an update a few weeks later, they said they were “making changes” to how they handle warranty replacements, and hoped to ship mine in “early November”. I had to chase them for an update again when they missed that date, and now they’re just saying “soon”. 😞 #Playdate

For the third time in as many months, #Apple Home has lost track of the correct location of our house, so arrive/leave automations aren’t working. Apple Support says the engineering team responsible is aware of the issue, which is affecting many customers, and is working on a fix. 🤷

Just tell me AI will fix all the its/it’s typos in the world and maybe I’ll be exited about it. 😆

I hope I’m wrong, but “Threads will support ActivityPub” reminds me a lot of Steve Jobs’s “We’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard.” #Apple

Hanging out at the Melbourne Pen Show all day tomorrow. Hope to see you there! https://www.melbpenshow.com.au #fountainpens

It’s Thursday night and there’s no new #StarTrek. 🥺 I think I will have to console myself by watching some old Star Trek.

The good news: Tuesday is a public holiday so I have all day to put the finishing touches on my #MelbJS talk. The bad news: I will inevitably spend all day fiddling with my #MelbJS talk instead of taking a day off. #JavaScript #webdev

#macOS Sonoma up to and including 14.1 still has the issue where Privacy & Security permissions sometimes go missing at boot. But a clever reader has written in with a work-around! #Apple

Kicking off work on my MelbJS talk for next week: “Help! Storybook is eating all our tests!” #storybookJs #JavaScript #MelbJS #webdev

Another 2023 special edition release from #Lamy, and this one I hadn’t seen rumoured anywhere: the dialog cc All Black. I loved the studio All Black in 2018, and the regular editions (Dark Blue and Piano White) are lovely. Looking forward to seeing this in the flesh! #fountainpens

I’ve had a weird macOS networking glitch confined to my M2 MacBook Pro for months. Wish I could figure out the root cause. #Apple https://kevinyank.com/posts/weird-mac-networking-glitch/

HomeKit has done that thing where it has forgotten where I live, and now all my “First person arrives” and “Last person leaves” automations are tied to a McDonald’s 2km away. Of course, Apple offers no UI to correct this. It’s mAgIc! 🪄🌈✨ #Apple

Missing product: a very small battery backup UPS that can deliver a full 10A to (say) a NAS for just the second or three it takes the house to switch to battery during a grid outage. You can get high-current/high-capacity and low-current/low-capacity, but not high-current/low-capacity. #solar

Siri, define irony. 😂

Cc: @siracusa@mastodon.social

Neither @Obscura@indieapps.space nor @halide@mastodon.social does the automatic depth map capture for retroactive Portrait Mode that the first party Camera app does on #iPhone 15 Pro. Assuming there is API support for this, it’s a race for the first 3rd party camera app to support it. #Apple

The #iPhone 15 Pro is still quite heavy compared to my iPhone 13 mini. #Apple

Bartender is not messing around with its #macOS Sonoma update! #Apple

I asked Siri “Is brontosaurus real?” and it replied with a confident reassurance that it is, in fact, real … sourced from godzilla.fandom.com. 🤨 #Apple

Flip-flopped and changed my iPhone 15 Pro order from Natural, which was just too drab, to Blue. Also switched to in-store pickup, so I’ll get it on launch day. #Apple

The most annoying bug left in macOS Sonoma GA is inserting hyperlinks in Notes using the keyboard (⌘K) only works about 50% of the time. #Apple

Trying out tsup to see if it can replace our hand-rolled tsc build to produce CJS+ESM packages. François Hendriks’s How To Make Tree Shakeable Libraries gave me hard-to-find confirmation that we want to avoid bundling of our packages. Thankfully, tsup supports the option to disable bundling. #JavaScript