Monday, June 30, 2025
It’s hot in England at the moment. The country is being hit by another heat wave with temperatures sitting at around 30 degrees. It’s not the hottest but the heat here is different to other places. Looking at my weather app it tells me Cheltenham is going to have the same high as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv today and I find my wishing I was facing the heat there rather than here.
Trying a new thing this week. When I’m at my desk for work, my iPhone is not with me it’s across the other side of the room. Let’s see what impact this has on my mood and concentration levels.
I had somehow missed that when using tiling on the Mac you can drag the gap between two windows to resize them like the old split view on iPadOS.
Decided to give the new Reeder a go for RSS. Seems to be ok after the first day, but we’ll see how well it syncs up.
I might be doing a silly thing, but the iPadOS 26 beta is currently downloading. I need to see the new design on a device to know whether my designers intuition is right or not. I have accessibility concerns, but can’t help feeling excited.
Watching the key note from last night, there’s lot’s of name dropping of ChatGPT, Private Cloud Compute, and On Device models. I don’t think they’ve mentioned Siri once when referring to Apple Intelligence.
One of the best things about being away from the computer and not checking in on RSS or Micro.blog during that time is the deluge of good posts to read over coffee on a Monday morning. This is the internet I like.
Just discovered that ChatGPT is the easiest way of converting images from webp to png.
Guess who did some training this morning on influencing others…
I started using properties in Obsidian and it seems to be causing serious lag issues. Not sure what’s going on with it.
Went to London at the end of last week for the London Coffee Festival. Made a trip to Borough Market for the first time as well. Monday morning arrived and it’s nice to be on my own and not around people.
My work issue headset broke so I started to use my AirPods when on calls. I find myself forgetting that I have them in long after a call has finished and only realising when I go to scratch my ear. Starting to think they are one of Apple’s best products.
Accessibility, colours, and web aim lead to strange combinations… what web aim says is more accessible seems harder to read. It has me wondering which is true scientifically and how important intuition is in design vs what the data says.
I could spend all day reading Maggie Appleton’s delightful website. It’s such a pleasure to wander around in. I think it’s the kind of website I aspire to.
Google is effectively killing off early Nest thermostats, that’s not great consumer wise, but I’ve never understood the need for them anyway. If your house is well insulated it’s cheaper and more efficient to set a temperature and let your thermostat regulate when to heat or not.
Just over a year ago my iPad Pro died. I replaced it with a new one but debated getting a new Mac instead. I wish I’d bought the Mac.
Playing with Perplexities Mac app I asked it what the weather was. It knew where I lived and gave it to me in a nice card. I asked Siri and for some reason it gave me the weather in Texas…
This MacSparky video showing the Perplexity voice assistant embarrasing Siri is quite impressive. Apple still has time on it’s side to catch up, but I have wondered why they didn’t look to buy something like Perplexity to help them catch up.
It baffles me that none of the AI products have created an app like OpenAI have for macOS. It’s the only reason I use ChatGPT over all the others. There may be better services, but ChatGPT has productised their offering better than anyone else.
“But the angel said to the women, “Don’t be afraid. I know you are looking for Yeshua, who was executed on the stake. He is not here, because he has been raised — just as he said! Come and look at the place where he lay.”
Mattityahu (Mat) 28:5-6 CJB
He is risen!