An internet friend asked the other day:| tyler.io
I’m a little obsessive about data collection and retention. I’ve written a number of times about all the different backup systems I have in place to protect my data. And over the last few years the amount of data I’m collecting about myself (and family) has continued to grow. We’re taking exponentially more photos, posting many more status updates, and collecting real-time data about our sleep patterns, fitness activity, and location.| tyler.io
I recently moved away from Day One and am now using Obsidian to keep my daily journal. To make that possible, I needed to migrate over a decade’s worth of journal entries into an Obsidian-friendly format.| tyler.io
I recently moved away from Day One and am now using Obsidian to keep my daily journal. To make that possible, I needed to migrate over a decade’s worth of journal entries into an Obsidian-friendly format.| tyler.io
The last iOS redesign, iOS 7 in 2013, laid the foundation for a neutral, nearly agnostic visual language that third-party developers and companies could build their own brand and corporate design on top of. It was such a clean slate that, twelve years later, most major apps look similar — if not identical — between their iOS and Android counterparts. Ignoring platform exclusives, most apps eschew Apple and Android’s branding in favor of their own.| tyler.io
I recently discovered minifeed, and it has quickly become one of my favorite things on the internet. Minifeed is a curated blog reader and search engine. We collect humans-written blogs to make them discoverable and searchable. Once, maybe twice a day, I load the homepage and browse through the latest posts from real blogs written by real humans. I almost always find something surprising, delightful, weird, or just plain fun to read. Even better, I come away with a new blogger to follow. Fro...| tyler.io
My son turned eleven last month. He reads all the time (fantasy books are his favorite) and has started planning and building his own worlds to write stories about.| tyler.io
What should have been an email is now this blog post answering Nick Heer:| tyler.io
A quote I often find myself thinking about is | tyler.io
macOS Sequoia has added a surprising number of new and curious warning prompts for third-party apps.| tyler.io
Yesterday, we entered a new timeline. I don’t know if it’s a better one or a much worse one. But it’s something new. This evening, we arrived home from touring a new city — checking out neighborhoods and schools — and found the unspeakable had marched on our hometown. Filth and venom, spewing. The kids watched a movie, and I went for a run alone in the dark. To think. It was a half mile down the river from the spot where their grandparents took them fishing yesterday – not far (in...| tyler.io
Prompted by this post from Mario Guzman, I was finally about to put into words what bothers me about Siri – and what I hope Apple’s upcoming A.I.-focused WWDC will improve. We’re over a decade into the industry’s voice assistant experiment, and given the same input, the output doesn’t feel reliably deterministic. Voice is an interface that is not stable or discoverable. Every morning, I say, “Hey, Siri. Turn on the office lights.” This morning, Siri responded, “Sure. What woul...| tyler.io