A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Remember that wild painting in the final episode of| heydingus.net
So I’m simply not going to do it, and you can’t make me. 😜 --- This is post #9/31 for Blaugust 2025. --- HeyDingus is a blog by Jarrod Blundy about technology, the great outdoors, and other musings. If you like what you see — the blog posts, shortcuts, wallpapers, scripts, or anything — please consider leaving a tip, checking out my store, or just sharing my work. Your support is much appreciated! I’m always happy to hear from you on social, or by good ol' email.| HeyDingus
So I just typed into ChatGPT,“I need an easy prompt for a Blaugust post.” Here’s what I got: What’s one small habit or tool that’s made your life noticeably better in the past year? Alright, I’ll take it and turn it. Year of Small Improvements When contemplating a Yearly Theme for 2025, I decided to follow CGP Grey’s lead from 2024 and go with the Year of Small Improvements. The idea being that instead of letting small annoyances stack up and continuously bother me, I’d make a...| HeyDingus
The extreme preciousness of time is the point of this video by the To Scale: channel, but I hope you’ll spend 10 minutes of yours to watch it and marvel at the vast scale of the history of the universe, and our fleeting portion of it. Amazing vision, effort, production, and payoff on this project. --- This is post #7/31 for Blaugust 2025. --- HeyDingus is a blog by Jarrod Blundy about technology, the great outdoors, and other musings. If you like what you see — the blog posts, shortcuts, ...| HeyDingus
Here I am, again, blogging past 11pm to try to keep up with my Blaugust goal. Although I am typically a night owl, this week I’ve been both night owl and early bird and it’s catching up with me. Tomorrow, I have to wake up at 4:30am (in just five and half hours — yikes!) to be at a local trailhead ready to start hiking at 6am. It’ll be a long day of hiking and climbing up the Trap Dike — a very distinctive slot and slab that rises from the lake a the bottom of the Mt. Colden to its ...| HeyDingus
12 minutes and counting to write and publish this thing to meet my arbitrary goal of writing a post every day, on the day, for Blaugust. Let’s do this. My wonderful wife approached me in a tizzy yesterday. She had that look in her eye that told me she had a technology rant built up and me — the tech guy — was going to hear about it. Sure enough, she needed to inform me that she was not happy with the lineup of Kindles that Amazon sells today. She’s been a longtime user of the original...| HeyDingus
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (or sometimes Mondays). Sometimes themed, often not. --- 1️⃣ Getting the Pebble trademark back from Google is a spot of feel-good news regarding a tech giant that I just never expected. [🔗theverge.com] 2️⃣ A follow up from a few weeks ago, Becca Farsace rode an eBike over 400 miles on nothing but solar power. Cool project, and I expect it’s an early preview of tech that will emerge in the next few year...| HeyDingus
Sorry for the clickbait title, but I haven’t read the book. The phrase just occurred to me as I was driving back from a short canoe paddle with my wife today and saw my quick-dry towel hanging on the passenger seat that carrying a towel in my car has really paid off all summer. I’ve slowly been turning into someone who just carries a bunch of extra stuff in the car at all times. It’s frustrating when you get somewhere and need something — like a towel — and even though you have doze...| HeyDingus
I went outside with my MacBook today to answer some emails and work on upcoming trip logistics for my guiding service. My wife is sitting next to me, reading her book. She commented about how our backyard is full of such good sounds. So, here’s a non-exhaustive list of everything I can hear right now. The soft chirp of a bird high up in a nearby tree. The tap tap tap of a tiny bird as it tests the bark of a tree for tasty insect treats. The whine of a distant boat cruising the lake — or i...| HeyDingus
Image: aggronaut.com ⌘ Well, that really snuck up on me. Here I was, power-puttering™ around on the computer: today is the first of August. Not only| heydingus.net
Fans of Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program — the one where you pay monthly for an iPhone and have the opportunity to upgrade to a new model after a given number of payments — rejoice! You can now get a similar deal for an iPad Pro. And when I say“deal”, I really mean it. More on that in a bit. You might remember the folks at Upgraded have offered a MacBook Upgrade Program for a while now. I used it to purchase this very M4 MacBook Air that I’m typing to you on, and have been super hap...| HeyDingus
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. --- 1️⃣ Got a move streak mix up on your Apple Watch where the gadget thinks you missed a day, but you haven’t? There is a fix! (Related: my stand goal cheater shortcut.) [🔗sixcolors.com] 2️⃣ New CGP Grey video! I know feel so much smarter about zip codes, and also sad that we don’t use Ireland’s system. [▶️youtube.com] 3️⃣ Stephen Robles wrote about his journe...| HeyDingus
I’m thrilled to learn (via episode #573 of the Upgrade podcast with Myke Hurley and “Mr. Kobo” himself, Jason Snell) that Kobo has announced a new| heydingus.net
Well, a little less than two months since Mozilla announced it was happening, Pocket, the venerable read-it-later service, has officially shut down.| heydingus.net
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A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Nick Heer does the work in| heydingus.net
I’m glad that Jason Snell blogged about his skepticism toward the OpenAI and io partnership because his feelings almost exactly mirror my own. Personally, I don’t trust Sam Altman any further than I could throw him. But I do trust Jony Ive — so his high regard for Altman has to count for something. The framing of this as“two friends coming together” makes me uncomfortable. It’s like they’re trying to say Sam + Jony is the new Steve + Jony spiritual partnership the world’s been...| HeyDingus
A list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted when I’ve got 7 of them. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ This might be the fastest and| heydingus.net
Acapulco returns in July for a fourth and final season. I’ve enjoyed this series, and I’m glad they’re wrapping up here — it feels like a natural| heydingus.net
You’d have no way of knowing, but I swapped the entire infrastructure that HeyDingus runs on from Dropbox to iCloud today. It took all of two minutes and a few mouse clicks. How? Through the magic of file syncing and my hosting service, Blot. Since the beginning, Blot’s whole advantage was to turn a folder on your computer into a site on the World Wide Web. Originally, Dropbox was the only syncing service that Blot worked with, but over time, David (Blot’s developer) added Git and Googl...| HeyDingus
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Ryan Christoffel’s got a good tip| heydingus.net
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. --- 1️⃣ I did not know about these keyboard shortcuts in YouTube to step forward and backward by one frame. 🔗support.google.com (Via John Gruber) 2️⃣ I very much appreciated this piece that Sarah Jeong wrote in response to criticism about the headline that she wrote as editor for The Verge’s piece on Trump’s illegal firing of Democratic FTC commissioners. She explained h...| HeyDingus
Matt Birchler in a (paywalled) post on Birchtree: I’m of course publishing this the day after the Severance season 2 finale, but I’ve had this| heydingus.net
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. --- 1️⃣ I’ve long wondered how folks did bold and italic text on sites like Twitter that didn’t support formatting. This website does it for you using (unfortunately not very accessible) ✨Unicode✨. (Micro.blog, my social media of choice, does it using HTML, which is better, but isn’t supported everywhere — though most Mastodon servers seem to display it correctly.) [...| HeyDingus
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ @tinyblocks_ on Threads put| heydingus.net
It’s a Studio Neat product, so it’s no wonder that this little auto-retract utility blade is so svelte, so handy, so handsome, and so unassuming. I tried cheap, similar solutions while waiting for my Kickstarter’ed Keen to ship and they’re clumsy and bad. Keen rocks and is very good! I mean, come on, they even nailed the packaging. ⌘I leave it magnetically attached to my fridge, ready for opening boxes, bags, and envelopes. Now I’m never digging around to find a box opener. Ready ...| HeyDingus
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. --- 1️⃣ This retro M4 Mac Mini design from ColorWare looks hella good. [🔗9to5mac.com] 2️⃣ Here’s a Steve Jobs interview that I hadn’t seen before in which he predicts modern streaming services, reiterates Apple’s commitment to building the best products and making a profit only to serve that key goal, and proposes a fascinating idea of everyone donating their extra WiF...| HeyDingus
One of my most-used shortcuts, and the one that gets mentioned the most online, is my Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision shortcut. Earlier today I| heydingus.net
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. --- 1️⃣ I might have found my next backpacking stove system in the MSR Switch! [▶️youtube.com] 2️⃣ I really enjoyed this thread where prominent creators pass the“blame” of discovering and recommending a cool tech product which led to it getting back ordered. 🤣 [🦣mastodon.social] 3️⃣ Sara Bareilles continues to impress with this powerful performance of“Goodby...| HeyDingus
I wanted to check out a mobile video editor to cut up some videos to share. So I searched the App Store, found one called Splice that looked pretty| heydingus.net
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. --- 1️⃣ Apparently champagne sales are dropping, presumably because people don’t feel like celebrating. Rings true for me. [🔗edition.cnn.com] (Via Paul Kafasis) 2️⃣ I might need some of these Goodnight Moon stamps when they come out. I loved that book as a small child. [🔗kottke.org] 3️⃣ I’ve been following Noah Kalina’s work for probably a decade, but it’s sti...| HeyDingus
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Jamie Thingelstad is getting more| heydingus.net
I expect I’ll have more to say about this before long, but I recently bought a secondhand 1st-gen HomePod from eBay and paired it with my original| heydingus.net
Two terribly delightful things happened yesterday in my personal blogosphere. First, the internet’s own prolific Lou Plummer wrote very kindly on| heydingus.net
If you’re paying $20/month for ChatGPT Plus just to use the API, you’re vastly overpaying. In November 2024, I used OpenAI’s GPT 4o model via their| heydingus.net
Speaking of cool climbing gear, if you’re getting any traditional slings for alpine draws, general extensions, or building anchors, it’s hard to| heydingus.net
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ This roundup of 20 years of Google| heydingus.net
Edelrid is making some of the coolest, most forward-thinking climbing gear at the moment. My first exposure to their brand was through the Mega Jul,| heydingus.net
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ I was captivated by this tale of| heydingus.net
Sorry I’m late guys! I just wasn’t watching the clock closely enough, I guess. But I wouldn’t miss crashing episode #532 of Clockwise. Audio| heydingus.net