Nathan Cashion

@nathancashion
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Dad x 2 interested in MSK, spine care, sports chiropractic, wilderness medicine, Apple tech. MS in Health Informatics/Data Analytics
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My kid included a QR code in his drawing and I don’t know whether to be impressed or dismayed.

📢 New Essay:

“Communication technologies have been reshaping the human body in a slow migration down the arm.

They’ve run out of body. Now they’re reshaping the message.”

https://www.terrygodier.com/body-language

Body Language

Communication technologies have been reshaping the human body in a slow migration down the arm. The next cost isn't to the body.

Terry Godier

What is going on?!

I updated my son’s iPad to 26.4.1 and now the passcode keypad is a full size keyboard with miniaturized keys. It’s almost impossible to tap the right buttons.

#ipados

I think this might be the first XKCD comic I have to submit to r/PeterExplainsTheJoke

https://xkcd.com/3230/

Overton

xkcd
A handful of other glimpses into Apple in parallel universes: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/the-back-page-dispatches-from-the-apple-multiverse/
The Back Page: Dispatches from the Apple multiverse

Yes, here in our universe, Apple is celebrating its 50th anniversary. A milestone! The company is looking back on its success, its technology prowess, and the way it’s made us all willing to …

Six Colors

Dan Moren combining his tech journalism and sci-fi writing skills is a delightful reflection on what could have been:

“As much as some people might deride Liquid Glass, be glad you don’t live on Earth 9w4598-Ω, where Apple really ran with that whole “lickable” interface thing. Computing has never been so sticky.”

I’m still struggling with basic prompting for Apple Intelligence. Here I’m using Apple Shortcuts to record a voice memo then use the on-device model to transcribe, create a title and clean up the text which it adds to a new Markdown file in iA Writer.

It had been working fine, but now the model is including its commentary in the output.

Anyone have good success with cleaning up the prompts for Apple Intelligence?

I keep trying Rork Max, but all I get is this lousy error message. It looks promising, but not worth $200 just to see if it works.

So if all of you who ARE paying could just take a break for a bit, that would be great. 😉