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I personally keep it all (on iMessage) as a bit of personal history. Trying to see conversations I had with friends and family around fun/important events, searching to see if I ever went on a similar tirade about a product I’m about to send a friend…

Even when I was a new user right as Reader was getting started, I didn't think it was clunky to be honest. I thought it was clear when I was using one vs. the other. The only problem I've ever had is that typing/saying "Readwise Reader" is a bit clunky when discussing the product, but "Readwise" refers to the other one, and "Reader" isn't a sufficient name itself.

Discord is really awful about this, and that's one of the many reasons I dislike it. Its defaults are bad. I should be able to set, at the account level, the default that servers don't send me notifications. I believe by default, I only get @everyone and @role notifications, which is only a few taps per server. But every time I join a new server, I have to remember to do it. If I didn't actively care about notifications from one particular server, I'd just block Discord notifications entirely and stop managing them in their app at all.

I use Apple Maps for all of my transit needs, but I still keep Google for business data and lists like this. I don't find the Apple Maps list set-up to be what I want from this kind of feature. I do find it reasonable to keep two maps apps on my home screen, though.

When I was in college, my roommate (also a music student) and I would scream about how frustrated we were with Finale for notating out music.

Reading the [review and seeing GIF examples][1] of the workflow of Dorico music notation software made my jaw drop as a college student. I still want to brag to other people at work about the things I can do with it (and believe me, they do not care).

There's other software that delights me from time to time, but I've been using Dorico for probably five years now (took awhile after it came out for it to be ready for my day-to-day use) and I still can't believe music notation software can be this good.

[1] https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/dorico-is-here-a-review/

We got a new video system at a work that is a bit beyond my knowledge, but the files it puts out are very big (read the Apple ProRes whitepaper to figure out which option on this system would give us the smallest video files). I've owned Apple's Compressor on my own Mac for years now and never used it, and even it's a bit less intuitive than I'd like.

I think the phrase used here quite often is "security through obscurity" when it comes to links. The question is whether people feel comfortable with family photos falling under that principle. They're obviously not meant for public consumption, but the feeling of privacy invasion if a random person stumbled on them is going to vary from person to person. If one was totally comfortable with them being public and has zero reservations about random folks peeking on them, then I'd be surprised if there weren't an even sturdier way to do this publicly (through Flickr or just an open FTP link – but that loses some of the convenience of just an iCloud album for some people).

I was unaware there was copypasta on HN. I know this might be generally the sort of post that the site wants to avoid, but the phenomenon of copypasta within a given community still makes my heart smile a little bit.

For what it's worth, you can move Markdown -> Typst by way of Pandoc.

4. It seems very unlikely that the keys would literally be chosen out of a hat. IME of these kinds of exams there's no need for randomness. Students tend to be asked for the less familiar keys because they're less likely to know them well. If someone gets C major and someone else gets Gb major for random reasons it's really not much of a fair test.

Music teacher – the scale portion of our state's band All-State auditions are one by choice, two by random draw (for a total of 3).

For the curious:

There’s an API built into Mastodon to save timeline location on your account.

Ivory is planning to support it, doesn’t currently, however it does save timeline location to iCloud, readable by Ivory on your other devices.

No idea if Ice Cubes is planning to implement the native API, or if it’s currently trying to and running into issues.

Out of every tool I’ve ever used to make a .docx file from Markdown, Pandoc is the only one that has consistent results with converting Markdown headers to Word styles rather than just a bigger font size. Lots of Markdown tools in my tool belt, and would love to know of any more that can do this, because it’s really useful on the (unfortunate) occasions something needs to live as a Word doc.

A lot of companies would be really upset at Google if this happened

There's lot of projects that Google has killed for which this is the case, though. Stadia had people building for it, and Reader had people building atop it to name maybe the two highest profile ones. Of course, the cost vs value of maintaining those for Google was a very different question, but on its own, other companies' interests don't seem to move the needle much for Google when it comes time to kill a project.

Part of the reason on iOS it takes longer, at least in my vault set-up, to begin throwing in a new note is that Obsidian has to finish syncing and show me notifications (that I wish I could turn off) from a plug-in I value before I can begin navigating to a "new note" screen.

Not just for the speed, but also for (personal) mental simplicity, this is one of many reasons I use [Drafts](https://getdrafts.com) for so much writing. I also use a few other notes apps in concert with Obsidian, and if I just hit Drafts on my iPhone or Apple Watch I can start getting the idea down. If it's going to Obsidian, it's an action from Drafts to just dump it in there without using Obsidian's interface at all. If it's not going to Obsidian (and instead going to Bear or OmniFocus or into an email or a text message or appending to an existing note or a million other things) then it's just a different action.

Been using it for a few days now, and my biggest hope is that it gets a dedicated Mac app. I've been a bit disappointed with it so far in Unite. Maybe if I picked up Coherence it would work better?

nvALT was one of my "gateway" apps into really finding my happy place. Before nvALT I thought Apple Notes was sufficient for me. It really revealed to me what things I wanted to be using notes for that I wasn't. But I also wanted more structure and a better mobile app than the Simplenote app.

Today Drafts fills the "easy entry" portion of nvALT, while a combination of Bear and Obsidian serve as the primary ways I organize information after that. But nvALT opened the door for me.

I agree that removing 3D Touch makes text editing worse (presumably — my XS Max still has it and I’ll discover this fall), but if you step back, hopefully you can understand its removal. Adding an entire extra layer to the display was far from ‘free’ from a design perspective. That extra layer really limited design options and its removal saw immediate jumps in battery life attributable to the space its removal saved.

There are all sorts of things out there a lot of people don’t figure out, or old features that new users never discover, but they require maintenance of code — this required a component, and saw poor adoption amongst many, many devs. Apple surely deserves some blame for it never taking off, primarily for a lack of discoverability. They added this new interaction after 7 years of a well-established and simple model, and didn’t give any visual indications for where you should be trying to use it. Plus, it was never on iPads, and only made it to iPhone models for four generations (6S, 7, 8/X, and XS — and it wasn’t on the XR).

It was a great idea, and I still wish they doubled down on it, but it makes perfect sense for them to have let it go for other advantages that ultimately will be used by more people and sell more phones.

Some time around 2016 or so, shortly after getting my first Mac, I started using this. It became my default audio/video player in less than a day.

I’m actually quite adept at my iPhone keyboard — one of many reasons I prefer the larger-sized phones. But I’m both actually faster (a solid 30 extra wpm) and feel less constrained when I’m typing on a full-size keyboard. There have been times I’ve been engaged in an active enough conversation by iMessage or by text that it motivates me to get out my Mac or my iPad for the benefit of the keyboard.

Because those wonderful jingles made it so appealing! And keep you coming back for the "phone plan that can!"

They haven't done the best job with rolling this out, but as someone who has had a Wordpress.com Personal blog (and dreamt of moving elsewhere now and again) this new plan is VERY tempting. The part of me that wants to tinker with my site as a non-developer? SFTP and Plugin access without the headaches that come from managing all my own installation. The next tier up on the older plans wasn't good enough for its money, but I wasn't going to pay $25/mo for a business site when I don't want to sell anything through my site.

I direct five bands across 8 grades and deal with a lot of events off-site. I’ve got parent contacts to make about logistics, supplies to manage for the band, instruments to help students fixed, resources for helping students I want to make…

Many, many band directors don’t use to-do systems, but I don’t know how (nothing about the number of bands I have is necessarily uncommon). OmniFocus and an overly complicated system of several note apps make me able to reference the information I need at any given moment on whatever device is in my hand, and keeps me on top of what I need to do.

The next update to Swift Playgrounds is supposed to allow full iOS app development…

May or may not be pedantry, but it’s not allowing the UIKit APIs, only SwiftUI. Still possible to make a full app, but on top of the IDE features that it lacks from Xcode, it’s specifically shutting out important parts of current iOS app development in 2021.

That’s not to say there’s not good reasons for it too, but it’s worth pointing out.

That’s what they’ve replaced TextWrangler with, but if you look at the feature comparison page, the free tier seems to do so much more than TextWrangler did that it feels less accurate to call it that — I was never a TextWrangler user, though, so I’m not qualified to say from experience.

I like the completions of Sublime text a lot better for most tasks. ST’s packages are also really powerful and BBEDit isn’t extensible in the same ways (though it is through AppleScript and a host of other things).

After the 30-day “trial” is up, the features in its free version are more than worth keeping it installed for. I keep an active license for it in addition to Sublime Text because it’s my preferred tool for complicated RegEx things and multi-file search.

As of today, there are so many incredible tools for Markdown — like Brett Terpstra’s Marked 2 and Christian Tietze’s Tableflip right off the bat — that make it so much more versatile. Obviously there are flaws, but if you find yourself working mostly in the same syntax all the time (I’m a MultiMarkdown man myself) it’s easy to make sure all your tools play well with one another.

I work outside of tech, and so many of my inter-work communications would be so much better on Google Wave. Of course, certain types of staff-wide communications would be solved better by anything other than email, whether that be Slack or a different platform, but I will always resent the death of Wave for what we missed out on as a society.

Yes, exactly; thank you for clarifying for me.

IMO, Apple still sees it as very important that macOS is fairly attractive for developers. Of course they’re selling lots of MacBook Airs to college students, but outside of that…

It’s not as if they want their CLI interaction to be 1-for-1 with Linux, but relatively close seems to still be a priority.

This didn’t happen in a vacuum, but I’m not surprised to see Reason milking more reaction against “cancel culture.”

Here’s a [post of his][0]and [reaction to it][1] divorced from the incident Reason is writing about.

[0] https://www.danieleldermusic.com/post/equity-silences-the-mu... [1]: https://reagancasteel.com/reagancasteel/2020/9/27/to-daniel-...