frozen octopus

I am experimenting with having the first screen on my phone being Siri suggestions only. Curious to see how much app searching I need to do vs. the app magically being there.

Day Two of it and I'd say it's about 60-70% that the app is there when I need it so far. Tough for Siri to anticipate when I am going to need to add a drum beat into the drum machine app and things like that.

When I first added the three identical widgets, all the apps were the same across them. They suddenly adjusted to have no repeats.

I'm very interested in how this is going to affect which apps I use. Thinking you are a certain type of person and then not having the apps associated with that type of person suggested to you must make you start to self-adjust.

The record label I help out has a ton of releases. There are over 60 of them. I've been trying to get all the metadata correct on all the albums. The year is easy to sort out but the actual day is very tough to find.

My temporary solution was to just use Jan 01 until I find them. I've been noticing as I add what albums I listen to that there are a lot of Jan 01 releases in Apple Music.

Looks like great minds think a like. Jan 01 must be the universal date for "I give up trying to track down the release date".

I want to start playing with the typography inspirations I am finding on 1950s era Jazz album covers. I thought nth-child would come to the rescue for this but looks like you can't get at words or letter with it.

A bit of digging around and I found the javascript for what I need called Lettering.js. It gets you spans on individual words and letter where you need it. It does it in an a11y compliant way as well which rules.

Tried it out for about 20 minutes and it was very fun. Definitely a tool, used with some restraint, I am going to use a bunch in the future.

A quick list of app in my menubar for 2023. I love tiny menubar apps that do one thing well.

• Calendar: Itsycal
• Action buttons: Popclip
• Color picker: DevSwatch
• Clipboard manager: Jumpcut :
• Keyboard shortcuts: BetterTouchTool
• Memo pad: Cheatsheet
• Hard drive ejector: EjectBar
• Window manager: Moom
• Filler text for layouts: LittleIpsum
• Text copier: TextSniper
• Language switcher: Keyboard Switcheroo
• Menubar organizer: Bartender

My drum practice theme for tonight's trip to the rehearsal studio is "if someone's Eighties Casio keyboard malfunctioned, could I play all the drum patterns".