A group of women next to me at Dune 2 snuck in an entire pizza in a purse. Legends.
My body isn’t made to move laterally
Spent an hour coaching my daughter’s U9 soccer team today (despite not playing or watching any soccer since I was about her age), and somehow my knees and every other joint in my body hurt now.
Artifact news app is shutting down
Artifact AI-based news app from Instagram cofounders is shutting down. I tried it for a few weeks while Reddit was imploding but it only got worse and worse as they added more features and started to do the sort of things free apps relying on algorithms and desperate for astronomical user growth seem to have to do.
E-ink toilets at CES
Finally I can shit using the same technology I use to read library books.
Scan QR code for service
Best Buy is apparently so poorly staffed these days you have to scan a QR code and fill out a web form for service.
Texas women’s volleyball wins 2023 national title
Texas Volleyball are back-to-back national champions! ??
Airpods constant mute and unmute message
Are we all getting this alert over and over and over again every time we use AirPods?
Mac shortcut to auto quit Apple Music
Created a Shortcut on my Mac just to quit Apple Music every time it opens and open Spotify instead.
It’s not that I hate Apple Music that much, it’s just I constantly click the play/pause on my Airpods after a work call meaning to restart podcast/music on my iPhone. Be nice if Apple would let us configure that behavior. (I know, I know.)
NNG and AI articles
Pretty much half of the recent NNG articles recently have been about generative AI/chatbots: nngroup.com/articles/ Some of them are interesting, some of them are pretty empty. Guessing in general putting out five truly riveting articles per week on usability is tough.
Interesting to see them so heavy into AI including most of the recent articles from Jakob Nielsen himself.
Halloween Grinch
Being able to go back to almost completely ignoring Halloween might be the only thing I’m looking forward to when the kids move out of the house in another decade or so.