Becoming That Guy

There’s a strange thing that happens to people when they become known to do something. It could be a certain position at a company, a hobby, or even a topic they are particularly passionate about. Once they reach a certain point, they lose themselves and become ‘that guy’ and it becomes difficult to shake. Unfortunately, that’s been me for quite a while. I’ve spoken to people about this before, for example, Daryl Baxter, for a while, was ‘the iPad guy,’ and it took years for him to shake it.

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05 Mar 2025

Nick Heer in An Age Range API Is Coming to iOS Later This Year

it makes complete sense for age verification to be part of a child’s Apple Account information instead of collected individually by third-party apps.

I can’t understand why this is only now a thing. It’s been right in front of everyone the whole time whilst they’ve been pointing in every other direction.

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28 Feb 2025

The Dent in ⭐️ Owning your own space and content is important

Your posts will find a niche, if you want them to, and if not you would have still carved out your own little patch of the internet, ripe for growing something special.

Seeing Andy encourage people to blog is not what I expected from 2025. But I love it!

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28 Feb 2025

Writing Checks To Yourself

In recent times, a notion has been repeatedly mentioned by a certain type of self-proclaimed intellectual. You know the kind: those bead-wearing, ayahuasca-drinking, podcast-interviewing types. They have a saying that goes something like, “Do something now that your future self will thank you for.” This modern mantra is an updated version of something my grandfather used to say, “Write some checks for yourself.” It’s a wonderful way to think about life, though I doubt the aforementioned tribe even know what checks are.

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22 Feb 2025

Finding The Third Place

Here in contains number 3442 of ways that I can over spend and overthink my relationship with technology. I am well aware of my shortfall as a human, my ability to appear moronic, and you should not take any advice from my blog posts or podcast appearances. I annoy myself far more than I annoy you, so please know this before reading on. Since writing about the MacStories iPad Mini review, I’ve been thinking about a lot about my relationship to technology again.

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22 Feb 2025

Shortcuts Not Share Sheet

Presently, I’m taking a bit of a break from being online. I’ve spent so much time looking at things, testing features, and replying to people getting ready for Micro Social to launch that I am a bit burnt out. It’s at this point that I realise the importance of iOS Shortcuts and the great API Micro.blog has. I’ve been making things using Shortcuts for years. Back when it was Workflow, it essentially powered my day-to-day life, including my company.

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20 Feb 2025

On Boredom

Whilst listening to a recent episode of Modern Wisdom, the topic of boredom came up. As with many things in my life, this conversation arrived exactly at the right time. I’m not sure if the universe talks to be or this is some kind of frequency illusion, but it happens quite a lot for me. Anyway, the short but sweet conversation got me thinking, and this post is a result of those thoughts.

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20 Feb 2025

Because X, Doesn’t Mean Y

A recent episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman was a conversation with Seth Godin. Conversations with him are always enjoyable and I often take many brilliant insights away that help me in my creative life. His books and his talks are often all encompassing and the conversation turned to Ai and its effects on the creative industry. computers really didn’t start making an impact in the design community until the late 80s, which at the time, a lot of the OG designers of that era were vehemently, vehemently opposed to using the computer.

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19 Feb 2025

Saying No

The last few weeks have been a wild ride. After deciding to push my skills forward and release the app I developed for myself, I pushed myself further than I expected. Learning new skills, leaning on other people for help, and interacting with some wonderful people who have helped shape Micro Social into the app it is now. I’ve also had to say no to things a surprising number of times, and I don’t like it at all.

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19 Feb 2025

🔗 Important Update for Consumer Ai Pin Customers – Ground Control

Device Timeline: Your Ai Pin will continue to function normally until 12pm PST on February 28, 2025. After this date, it will no longer connect to Humane’s servers, and .Center access will be fully retired.

That timeline is ridiculously short.

They clearly have next to no users.

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19 Feb 2025