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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@phil Well, you know, Russian bot traffic kept it alive

Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@mwyman Yes, recipes are practically the paradigmatic example of what you have to do to make money click-farming. At this point, I would think they’d be ready to give up

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

AP 👏 PLE 👏 WILL 👏 PAY 👏 YOU 👏 TO 👏 PUBLISH 👏 RECIPES 👏

A screenshot of the recipes section of Apple News

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Just checked what year it is, and I quit my click farm blogging job to figure out how to ethically publish online FOURTEEN YEARS AGO

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

“Apple making it possible to actually read and follow the recipes I publish deprives me of my livelihood as someone who writes deliberately infuriating walls of advertisement with a recipe buried in it somewhere”

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Cry me a river of recipe blogger tears while I play a violin the size of a hydrogen atom. Do you hear yourself??? “The problem is that converting a recipe into easy-to-follow instructions in Apple’s own format also strips it of its context” ISN’T IT WONDERFUL […]

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Pro tip: natural Environment at full immersion with a ceiling fan on and the windows open IRL

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Hello from pure visionOS, my most enjoyable computing environment

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I assume it’s too naive for me to just assume/hope properly constructed websites do something normal when you load them on a foldy phone

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Apple didn’t sell as many $1000 phones as usual because everybody wants the $2000 one

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

You know you fucked up when your voicemail makes me change my voicemail greeting

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Swiping up and down on the Camera Control should scroll the page you’re looking at

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The nerd world seeing an Apple commercial that simply depicts a family with children getting ready in the morning and going, “Yikes, I did not like that ad! It was so stressful!” is the funniest thing to happen in nerd world in a long time.

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

My OS 28 feature requests are two items long and as follows: - Give Messages the same “Remind Me” feature as Mail has - Make them actual Reminders

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I just realized that Mark Zuckerberg added Fediverse support to Threads so that he and his lieutenants could still broadcast to us, and I have never felt so owned in my life

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

This account is still main, btw. My social web account since 2016.

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

We’re going to make it through this bullshitstorm

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

If 𝕏 were So Back™, they wouldn’t be coming back out to the real web to post about how much fun they’re having and how we should totally come check it out. That is a lonely and desperate move.

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Look, I am a Jewish person whose replies were full of GIFs of people cocking rifles when I deleted my Twitter account, but I understand that the entire internet is a cesspool, and so I don’t get exercised about the social politics of it. It’s the *technological* politics that have always made […]

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

It’s the latter part that really irritates me. A “website person” who uses 𝕏 is self-evidently full of shit. If your excuse for using 𝕏 is “that’s where all the tech discourse happens,” you’re not just *socially* identifying as a fascist, you’re *technologically* identifying as one.

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

That said, John Gruber feeling like he’s using a computer with mittens on when he’s using an iPad is no longer our most opposite view technologically speaking

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I no longer know what I would even use a Mac laptop for if I had one

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Don’t write wimpy posts about people who use X. Tell the truth. Say that people who crave viral attention so badly that they’ll tolerate violence, hatred, propaganda, and — especially in the case of self-proclaimed technologists — oppressive, anti-network, and fundamentally subpar technology […]

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

HomeView is not a good name, so I hope Gurman got punked with it

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Why can I still not buy a surge protector that does not have USB-A ports on it?

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I am one 32GB high-endurance microSD card away from a working Macintosh SE on my desk.

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

If Sonumi isn’t your alert sound, you are wrong

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Apple interface copy now has Zoomer ellipses in it, and it’s going to break me

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

My children are learning the computer trade in the traditional manner, by apprenticing with their father

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It is time for me to Retvrn to Desktop

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I have ordered the $50 SD-to-SCSI adapter that will make it possible for me to boot the Mac SE that is now at the copilot station of my desk.

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

There is something to me about the green flag lights at Bristol at night that is the most intimidating view in all of racing

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

So stoked for my weekly usage reset at 4 AM

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

AT&T has apparently arrived at a price point of $100 per line (before autopay/bank account discounts etc.) at which you get everything you’d expect, without throttling, and cellular data for one tablet and one watch per line with no additional cost, and you know what? Fine.

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

New iOS 27 feature: I got a “Get ready for your new iPhone” notification that then said I was “eligible for extra iCloud space” or something to that effect to prepare for my transfer. I have enough space and a fresh backup — and my Wi-Fi is fast enough that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An icon of a computer screen and a cloud with an arrow pointing up appears on a light gray background. Below the icon, a white rounded rectangle displays black text reading “iCloud Backup In Progress”. The text also includes “35% complete. About 4 hours remaining.”

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@samuel.fm I beg your pardon. Do you mean like actual websites emitting atproto feeds of their posts natively? Like, microblogging as in blogging, not microblogging as in tweeting

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Did you know you can just take off MagSafe phone cases and use the phone with them off, and then you can just put them back on again? I am just realizing this

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I’m no longer sure it’s a good idea to talk about technology

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I can’t wait to take receipt of my first Mac mini ever and my first desktop Mac since the iMac DV

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Jon Mitchell @ablaze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Someday I’ll have to tell the story of how hard the release I’ve been working on for the past month was to ship

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