7 Things This Week [#149]
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not.
1️⃣ You might have noticed another blogging community event, Blaugust, kicking off. I’ve written three posts for it so far (this will be the fourth), so…so far so good? I’ve you’ve been in a rut like me, this might help get the writing juices flowing again. [🔗 Belghast // aggronaut.com]
2️⃣ Regarding X’s reversal on the gun emoji, Stephen Hackett says it best. [🔗 Stephen Hacket // 512pixels.net]
3️⃣ I’ve tried Arc Browser in the past and bounced off, but Numeric Citizen’s post might have convinced me to give it another go — if only to try its new UI conventions. [🔗 JF Martin // numericcitizen.me]
4️⃣ I thought this Friend thing was a joke, but it’s not. No thanks, not for me. [🔗 Alex Heath // theverge.com]
5️⃣ For devices that won’t get Apple Intelligence, iOS 18 has seemed like a lightweight release, but after seeing all these little improvements, I’m pretty psyched for it. (I usually watch these round-ups on 1.5x.) [▶️ 9to5Mac // youtube.com]
6️⃣ Like many others, I find listening to lofi music helps me to get in the zone more quickly and focus on the task at hand, namely writing. The thing is, I don’t want hours of those tracks influencing my Apple Music suggestions and I don’t care to guess and check that the Listening History toggle is actually working. I tried out lofi.cafe, but even as a web app on the home screen, it can’t keep music playback going like other native apps. So now I’m trying Lo-Fi Clouds Radio, and I’m tentatively quite happy with it. It’s free, supports Split View and Slide Over, and the music is doing the trick. [🔗 Lo-Fi Cloud Radio // apps.apple.com]
7️⃣ If you see my rock climbing photos and videos and are interested in getting a better look at some of the routes I’m scaling, here’s a YouTube video from a different climber who climbed Quadrophenia, the route I did just yesterday. This Chris Granata guy has a number of other Adirondack climbing videos. [▶️ Chris Granata // youtube.com]
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.
This is post #4/31 for Blaugust 2024.