David Ely

@davextreme
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Left-handed, corrective lenses, husband, father. Resides in Annandale, VA. Last name is “ee-Lee.”
Webloghttps://david.ely.fm/
Apple has placed the new Sasquatch emoji alongside the very real gorilla and orangutan and not the fairies, elves, and mermaids. 🤔

like I said, exhausting

(Grogu, in this shot for a piece whose theme is “CGI BAD”, is computer graphics made by computer graphics artists)

Just posted on Six Colors: I’ll take ‘beach reading’ for $1000, Ken

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/ill-take-beach-reading-for-1000-ken/

I’ll take ‘beach reading’ for $1000, Ken

So I had a pretty weird January. While planning for a week on vacation, two things happened that totally derailed me. The Wall Street Journal asked me to review David Pogue’s book “Appl…

Six Colors
@gruber I got some Trader Joe’s peanut butter cups. Definitely a better recipe + ingredients. My one knock would be I thank the standard size, 2–4 bite Reese’s Cup is superior to the mini as an eating experience separate from taste.
@daringfireball Apple: Chrome around content is bad. Louvre: we’re getting rid of frames.

Breaking news: Max Headroom, one of the greatest TV shows ever made, is free on Tubi.

I find the terrible Tubi ads really enhance the dystopia.

@atpfm The more I use Alan Dye-style apps, the more I imagine a painter coming into their studio to find Dye has put away all their paints and brushes. "See how much you can focus on your content!” And if you need a brush, you can take them, one at a time, from this drawer! He sees your tools as clutter rather than the things that actually let you do work.
Mood for today...