Carpet patterns.

Over the weekend I released another update to Inkwell for Mac. It improves a few things with Reading Recap, fixing bugs too.

I thought it was fine that they left Tom Bombadil out of The Lord of the Rings movies, but great to hear that Stephen Colbert’s script will give more attention to those early chapters of Fellowship. Could be fun.

Trying to practice my Spanish, I repeat phrases like “con leche de almendra” in my head as I walk to the coffee shop… But then they speak in English anyway. One of these days I will learn the language for real. Need to ramp up my Duolingo time.

Catching up on this news from Mark Gurman about the upcoming Siri redesign, with a dedicated app and more conversational interface:

The app’s main interface will display prior conversations in either a list or a grid of rounded rectangles with text previews. Users can pin favorite chats, save older conversations, search across interactions and start new chats via a prominent plus button.

This all sounds pretty reasonable.

Hello from Spain! Just arrived and found a nice little coffee shop in Cádiz. How did I get here…? I recorded a new episode of Timetable to share the first part of my trip. 🇪🇸

Compared the transcript from Apple Podcasts with the transcript we generate in Micro.blog using GPT. They’re both good, but ours is nearly flawless, while Apple Podcasts has a few minor mistakes.

It’s great that apps have transcripts. I still want to control this and have my own (editable) copy.

This looks like a great update to the Post Stats plug-in. Thanks @amit!

If your blog is on Micro.blog and you’ve been blogging for a while, try the new setting on the Design page to upgrade to Hugo 0.158. For my blog — almost 10k posts — the new version makes a huge difference in speed. We’re now using Hugo’s new renderSegments feature to optimize publishing.

It has been six years since the start of Covid, and I still catch myself trying to hold my breath in crowded spaces like an elevator. It doesn’t make any sense! I hope my brain hasn’t been permanently rewired for fear. 😷