Mike McAuley

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Father of two • Husband • Web developer • Blogger • App connoisseur • Sci-fi lover • All-around nerd • North Carolinian
bloghttp://foolishsyntax.blog

Photo Credit: the L.A. Times

Social media users have long expressed consternation about shared helplessness via the "this is fine" meme.  But I realize now that this was us looking in. Now, I fear we are in the fire, looking out.

(This picture was taken at a rapidly evacuated wine bar in California.)

Seeing all the recent Meta drama makes having a personal website even more attractive.

Get yourself a domain & create your personal corner of the internet! You don't even need coding skills with tools like https://micro.blog/ or https://bearblog.dev/.

#indieweb #personalwebsite

Micro.blog

Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.

Hello Mastodon!... time to try something new.

First an introduction - I'm a photographer based in Western Canada with a primary focus on capturing #Nature and #LandscapePhotography with a focus on natural and real editing. I shoot both digital and film.

If you want to see more - give me a follow here I guess!

#photography #RealPhotosofRealPlaces #canada #nature #naturephotography #believeinfilm

Ad-free.
Algorithm-free.

Coming soon to the App Store ✨

Does this lazy shit work on ANYBODY? And how does iMessage itself not recognize scams this obvious?

Remember when I wrote “LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads” last summer on @macstories? https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/

Funny how that headline is now more accurate than ever. https://social.coop/@cwebber/113788266953239523

LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads

<p>As Twitter was crumbling under Elon Musk’s new leadership in 2023, various online circles found themselves flocking to alternative platforms. While some may have kept using Twitter (now known as… X), a non-negligible number of communities migrated over to Mastodon and other smaller platforms. Meanwhile, Meta shipped its own textual social media platform, Threads. The...</p>

#Apple Calendar being able to surface events from elsewhere like emailed appointment reminders is great, but it should be smart enough to see when I’ve already manually added it to my calendar. That’s the kind of #AI feature that would actually make my life better.

13 years ago, @gruber wrote a blog post I’ve thought about every #Christmas since becoming a parent. This year, I’m feeling exactly what he described. Incredible joy, tempered by not only the worry but the inevitability that this moment is fleeting. Going to do my best to simply enjoy it while I can. Merry Christmas, everyone!

https://foolishsyntax.blog/posts/2024/merry-christmas/

Merry Christmas

A blog about tech, apps, and life.

I beta-launched this to some friends then forgot to post about it. Lens is a meta tag checker but it only checks the things I care about and also doesn't try to upsell you some marketing nonsense when you use it

Lens: https://lens.rknight.me/

Blog post: https://rknight.me/blog/lens-meta-tag-checker-robbs-version/

Lens

Check your meta tags, icons, and rss feeds

Ugly Christmas Sweater iPhone Wallpaper: 2024 Edition — Basic Apple Guy

A refreshed Ugly Christmas iPhone Wallpaper just in time for the holidays.

Basic Apple Guy