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Ben Collins Sep 11, 2025

I don't know how Apple is calculating their new sleep scores but it does not seem accurate to me. I think I'm going to stick with @_Davidsmith and his excellent Sleep++ app.

For comparison, here are my scores from last night. And I'm absolutely exhausted today. I honestly like Apple's simple presentation of the data but a score of 92 vs 21 is just not even remotely accurate with how I feel today.

Ben Collins Sep 10, 2025

Sigh... I see everyone excited and in love with the new "Cosmic Orange" iPhone 17 Pro color and I just don't like orange. At all. As a Kentucky fan, it reminds me of Tennessee. YUCK!

And why is there not a black or dark gray color this year?

#iPhone17Pro #CosmicOrange

Ben Collins Jan 21, 2025

@foodnoms Would it be possible to add a chart in the app and as a widget to display a pie chart of our protein/carbs/fat percentages? My wife uses MyFitnessPal and this is the one feature missing for her.

Ben Collins Dec 31, 2024

📯🎶 All hail, King Hank! 👑

We are at MedVet Cincinnati for chemotherapy treatment #5 today. So far, Hank has handled the treatments well and his X-rays remain clean.

#chesapeakebayretriever #dogsofmastodon #chessiesofmastodon #bigsweetie

Ben Collins Sep 16, 2024

Any Apple #HomeKit gurus know how to remove an old (and no longer owned) AppleTV from my list of hubs? I've update everything to iOS/tvOS/etc 18 and I want to be able to define a specific device as a home hub but that isn't an option. Any ideas?

Ben Collins May 28, 2024

@TSindelar @dmoren @HollyGoDarkly @mikahsargent @aleen @janeritt I just finished listening to the finale of "TPK - Dog & Pony Show” and just let me say, thank you for the many (many) hours of entertainment and well done.

Ben Collins Apr 12, 2024

@marcoarment I know you are involved in a massive rewrite of @overcastfm and moving. I was curious about how @stroughtonsmith added AirPlay support to the Mac version of @broadcastsapp and if it would possible to add that to Overcast at some point in the future. If I could AirPlay from Overcast on my Mac to my OG HomePods then I would be much more likely to use Overcast on my Mac. Instead, I tend to do it from my iPhone which is fine but not my preference when standing at my Mac all day. Thanks.

Ben Collins Mar 20, 2024

@imyke On this week's Upgrade+, you were talking about Apple's podcast transcription service. I almost spit out my tea the first time you mentioned the “human evaluation word error rate” (aka HEWER) because it sounded like a certain word from The Sopranos.

Ben Collins Mar 14, 2024

Pull Day #fitbod #LunchLift

Ben Collins Mar 13, 2024

#fitbod #LunchLift