Hello Totties! New goodies for your phone and watch today: Smoother scrolling and Lock Screen widgets on iOS, watch face complications and clearing text on watchOS. https://tot.rocks/versions/1.5.2.txt
And if you're wondering what “Tottie” means: it's someone who has discovered the joys of working with Tot! https://tot.rocks
As a broke white kid who grew up with a very diverse group of friends, I can attest to the fact that being exposed to, and falling in love with other cultures at a young age does wonders for empathy, appreciation, and antiracism.
Food is truly a window to the soul of a culture.
Anyway, this TikTok creator is awesome and I love this video in particular.
Now that Hattori Hanzou has made his appearance on the NHK Taiga Drama “Dousuru Ieyasu” https://www.nhk.or.jp/ieyasu/, it’s cool to see the Iga ninja in action and how he will be portrayed by actor Yamada Takayuki. So far, it looks interesting.
A couple of pictures from my trip to Iga-Ueno and the ninja museum. It was an adventure getting there from Osaka to Kyoto & the 1st time I tried the train wasn’t running so I had to return the following day.
Found a really cool multi bike tool on Amazon.co.jp & was super happy to find it available on Amazon.com too. It has a hidden feature that turns it into a pedal stand & it’s made in Japan! Like many things MIJ, there’s a cute mascot & it cleverly uses the hOle in the tire lever in spelling out MinOura.
Minoura HPS-9 Pedal Stand with 9 Function Folding Tools https://a.co/d/hyd9ZlH
Over ten years ago, I worked at an Apple Store and my job title was “Creative” but that pretty much just meant I spent all day teaching cute little old people how to use their new computers.
One day, this sweet little old man came in for a lesson (we’ll call him Bob). Bob wanted to create an email address so he could email his granddaughter.
We pulled up the page (let’s call it email.com) and Bob started to enter his info and he came to the username section and asked what he should put so I said “oh, you know, something like [email protected] but more unique because that’s probably already taken.”
In order to give him privacy, I was looking away from his screen when he finally proclaimed “I got it! I’m [email protected]!”
I was absolutely shocked, so I looked over at his screen and that’s when I realized Bob had become the proud owner of [email protected].
Want to help out with development of Toot!? I have been doing some large internal rewriting, and probably introduced some exciting new bugs in the process, so I thought it might be best to do a public beta for this version to shake them out a bit before release.
The link to join the beta is here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/x0MbQhMF
Only join if you are happy to deal with some bugs! Or, if you want a free trial of Toot! and don’t mind a potential bug or two.