🔗 Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
.. and again (because this is the 🖇️second rant of this ilk today) - I don’t think about this kind of stuff - I just get annoyed because I see it - and complain about it to the long suffering Jax - but I did not even know this was a conscious decision.
🎵 Alan is probably right - but it is certainly mine - so off to see what else I can discover.
🏢 He’s treading in ‘Chasm’ territory - so of course it all makes sense. Another future post?
The second circle is out of your direct control, and it’s tempting to ignore it. But the second circle unlocks the change you seek to make.
🏢 I will fold this into a large piece soon - but the threads within reminded me of my thinking around ‘the gaps between the boxes’ - which I touched on in 🖇️ this newsletter but starting to think that it needs its own post.
😂😂😂😂 🔗 Stave off repetition | Self Distract
Only this week, someone compared my piano playing to that of Rachmaninoff’s. To be precise, they said: “He’s not as good as Rachmaninoff.”
🎵 I hadn’t thought about this album for years - and have never really thought about the complexity of creating the cover. But the music was on strict rotation at one point back in the day.
🔗 Daring Fireball: App Store Reviews Are Busted
thumbs, the system would still be gamified by developers, rewarding, as Godier aptly puts it, not the best apps but instead the apps that are best at “review prompt execution”. Apple should remove the APIs that allow apps to prompt for reviews, and forbid the practice of prompting for them.
The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
🔗 Daring Fireball: How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers
This has annoyed me forever but never bothered to talk about it because;
who cares?
who would listen?
nothing would change?
surely there are bigger issues to resolve?
But delighted that someone is picking up the mantle.
Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
💬 Ben Werdmuller