Yorrike

Apple Arcade may cost US$5 per month. That’d be amazingly cheap. It also means I have to drop almost 2 years-worth of subscrtions to buy a Playstation controller. May also buy a new Apple TV for lounge gaming.

I only heard that earthquake #eqnz

It’s a small steel keg ($95), not a car. Holy hell.

I love home brewing. My only gripe is that most equipment is set up to brew batches of ~20 L. I drink 3-4 beers a week, so the resultant 5 dozen beers is around 6 months' worth. I’m currently trying to set up a cheap 5 L system to brew 1 dozen at a time. Smaller is better!

How many batteries does this need? 3? That’s super convenient because batteries all come in packs of three.

Hey Google, [stop breaking](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/08/16/amp-server-side-rendering/ Server-Side Rendering With AMP) the web!

U ownly hav tu be lerning another langwage for a littel wyl to realize how messed up Inglish spelling iz.

OMG! Yes!

We did it everyone! We filled the air with potentially toxic plastic!

Microplastics ‘significantly contaminating the air’, scientists warn.

Shopping online in New Zealand:

Product: $99 USD
Shipping: $120 USD

Nope.

Just a reminder, media: in the next couple of years, Millennials will start turning 40 and all baby boomers will have passed retirement age. The generaltional warfare polemic you started in the early 2000s is irrelevant now. The dynamics have completely changed.

‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing.

I wash my hair 4 or 5 times a year – before I go and get it cut, out of courtesy, and it doesn’t smell (as confirmed by m’lady). What else could I skip washing? Apart from the obvious bits that need it?

Brother printers ad:

“Need to set up a printer? Call our call centre 24/7. We can connect to your printer remotely!”

Me: “Wait, what!? How? Isn’t that a potentially massive security risk!? WTF?”

Electric scooters aren’t as eco-friendly as they seem, study finds

Makes sense. Still way better than driving a car, though. And there’s room for improvement. But I think personally owned battery powered bikes are the way of the future. Vandalism is less of an issue there.

I really want to strip down my iPhone to the absolute bare minimum apps. As in, maybe 10 apps tops. But every time I try, I end up thinking “I use this app now and then and it’d be really annoying not having it in certain situations.”

This? Just a perfectly normal farm house with a thousand aerials. Definitely not a clandestine government listening post.

I’d love to be able to leave the house with just my phone. There’s just a couple of issues:

• There’s no such thing as a digital drivers license (yet)
• Paywave acceptance in New Zealand is inconsistent. Often with elegantly modified EFTPOS machines:

I just watched the first episode of the Netflix series Another Life. I was going to turn it off half way through because of the (intentionally written) insufferable younger characters. But I’m glad I stuck through. Looking forward to binging the rest.

Photos of the Taranaki coastline this afternoon. The first one makes me think of some epic sci-fi story about warring islands.

Waltr looks really interesting and useful. Although I don’t have a need for it, it should be how iOS devices and macOS interact.

If you’re selling Mac software online, you should allow payment with Apple Pay. There’s no excuse not to.

Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis. Puts Aotearoa’s goal of planting one billion trees over 10 years into sharp relief. If Aotearoa had a national planting day, where everyone planted 40 sapplings, we’d plant 200 million trees.

Free-wheeling: Why e-bike commuters are happiest

I think I’ll buy one of these Studio Neat Canopy cases for the Magic Keyboard next year when I plan on updating my, admittedly rapidly dying, iPad Air 2. It’s such an elegant design.

Last week I got into a spiral of Twitter addiction again. So I’ve logged out on my phone, so now my idle browsing to Twitter is stopped by having to log in, which is a lot more friction than I can be bothered with.