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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

who would EVER use this cropped photo of John Sculley, when you could use this full, beautiful picture of him in a suspiciously dark room with way too many 2-liters

LinkedIn-ass photo of John Sculley circa 1979, cropped to his shoulders up, from a slightly low unflattering angle, like how your boss calls you from the airport on Zoom.

An incredible full photo of John Sculley holding two-liters of Aspen and Mountain Dew, with an additional eight (8) two-liters on a table in front of him, standing in a suspiciously dark room, with some sofas behind him. I’m genuinely not sure what kind of room this is, or why he’s in there peddling sodas.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

watch out folks 😎 there’s a new player in town

Email from Libsyn: “Congratulations! Your earnings are in for Friends of Griffin that ran during the month of August!
In August You Earned: $0.90”

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Taking some 5× pictures just because, while I still can

Extremely zoomed-in photo of my cute fuzzy dog, Indy, laying down on an orange couch. You can clearly see her sleepy eyes and most of her nose with a hint of her floofy tail along the bottom of the frame. It’s almost too zoomed in to truly appreciate her majesty and beauty.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

And take a close look at the gorgeous artwork, which I spent an inordinate amount of time on

“Friends of Griffin” podcast artwork. It has the title in shiny silver text in the center, and in the blue background are a bunch of monochrome pixelated icons of dozens of Apple products, new and old.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

running for governor of ohio on the platform of returning to the greatest ever state logo, then stepping down and appointing amy acton

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

It has been 2️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ days since I’ve last posted my cute dog

Closely zoomed-in photo of a fuzzy floofy dog Indy (half border collie, quarter saint bernard, quarter great pyrenees) laying on an orange red couch, her head resting on a black and white fuzzy checkered pillow, eyes looking to the right

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

How long did it take me to make an accurate version? Only 25 minutes. It would be even faster if, say, this was my job and I had a template I could just paste numbers/text into. Like when I made featured images for my how-to articles at Cult of Mac. @electrek should retract this and apologize.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Basically, @electrek posted this AI-generated graph of their poll results. The numbers are completely wrong. Blue has 415 votes, green has 824, yet their slices are the same size. Blue should be 15%, not 28.6%. Red should be 25%, not 14.6%. Oh, and the numbers only add up to 98.3, not 100.

An AI-generated infographic titled 'Is Slate going to make it?' with a graph with wrong percentages overlaid with an AI-generated image of two Slate trucks.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Oh look, they made Astrology For Men the fuck does this have to do with your marketing project manager job

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

This has been fooling me for the last five hours, damn betas

Screenshot of the Messages app showing no unread messages

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

The “improved” Liquid Glass is both uglier and also not any easier to read, irritating both camps Kinda looks like a foggy mirror, I just want to wipe it down

Screenshot of the bottom tab bar and player UI in the Podcasts app on iOS 27 in dark mode, overtop some podcast artwork. It’s grayer than before, making it lower contrast.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

These ducks look like the old Microsoft emoji with the thick black borders

A box of dog toys that resemble mallard ducks for tough dogs. Aside from the wings, they have thick black reinforced stitching around the edge.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

When it comes to disappointing, Apple Intelligence never disappoints

Screenshot of a conversation with the Apple Intelligence local model saved to the Notes app.
Prompt: “Give me 25 names that Lee could be short for”
Answer:

Certainly! Here are 25 names that Lee could be a short form of:

1. Leonard
2. Lawrence
3. Leslie
4. Leroy
5. Lillian
6. Lillianne
7. Lillianna
8. Lillianne
9. Lillianna
10. Lillianne
11. Lillianna
12. Lillianne
13. Lillianna
14. Lillianne
15. Lillianna
16. Lillianne
17. Lillianna
18. Lillianne
19. Lillianna
20. Lillianne
21. Lillianna
22. Lillianne
23. Lillianna
24. Lillianne
25. Lillianna

These names can vary based on cultural and regional naming conventions.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Also, I took home another stray, an eMac. Disassembled for cleaning after sitting in a garage for some number of years. Not as bad inside as I feared, just needed a good wiping down

Top-down photo of a disassembled eMac. The core of the computer, impressively engineered in an egg shape around a CRT, is face-down on a blue towel on a pine table. The bottom plate and fan are sitting separately next to it. The white shell is sitting on the carpet below. Miscellaneous keyboards and tools are sitting nearby.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

So yesterday I went to the Large Scale Systems Museum in Pittsburg, after @mwichary posted pics last week. (I happened to be seeing a concert in the area the same day and made a pit stop.) Lots of excellent old mainframes in pristine condition; I got to boot a […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

A blue BeBox running BeOS showing its file browser in an applications folder

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Two new eBay purchases: • The Apple Adjustable Keyboard, very weird, eats desk space like an all-you-can-eat buffet • A 2013 Mac Pro, on which I installed Windows 8, just to make it a little more cursed

A pine table in a somewhat unremarkable office room with beige walls and gray carpet. Sitting on it is a beige Power Mac G3 desktop, under a giant Gateway monitor, with the Apple Adjustable Keyboard, split in the middle with big plastic wrist rests, a large number pad on a separate board, the egg shaped ADB Mouse II, and a generic beige speaker. Next to it is the shiny black cylindrical Mac Pro, showing the Windows 8 tile start screen, with a white mechanical compact keyboard and a generic wireless mouse. Hiding beneath the table is a blueberry iBook G3 and an Apple Extended Keyboard II in a box.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Earth shatteringly breaking news: new icon for Final Cut Camera

Screenshot of Final Cut Camera on the App Store, showing its new icon, a purple Liquid Glassy attachable camera lens with a dial and a lens hood

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

Went to search through a podcast transcript on Podcasts.app for Mac and found the UI ugly and broken, so I went to take a screenshot for Mastodon, and found the UI utterly broken in a second, even worse way

Screenshot of Podcasts.app for Mac viewing the transcript for a podcast. There’s a transparent blurry toolbar that you can see content through, with a second toolbar below with the search field that’s completely white and opaque, and the transcript below. It looks terrible and broken.

Screenshot of Podcasts.app for Mac viewing the transcript for a different podcast. There’s a transparent blurry toolbar, except this one is faded white, and the secondary search field toolbar is faded white and blurry as well, so you can’t actually read what you’re searching for. I don’t even know, girl.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

photo of me bothering David Pogue during a book signing to tell him the image of the Apple Lisa in his slide deck is actually the Lisa 2/5, not the original model which had dual 5.25″ Twiggy drives

David Pogue, author of “Apple: The First 50 Years,” signing a copy of his book (looking sharp in a nice suit) for me at his event in Cleveland

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

At Myke’s suggestion, I have accomplished something truly beautiful*, an episode of Connected played via floppy disk *a waste of several hours @imyke @ismh86 @viticci @connected

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

Reflection test: Glossy Studio Display XDR (left) vs. matte ViewSonic 5K (right) vs. glossy 2015 MacBook Pro (bottom) vs. regular glass (top)

A bunch of computer screens sitting on a wooden table. The glass framed picture in the back is almost illegible where it’s reflecting a window and two lamps. The MacBook Pro on the bottom looks nice, but the reflections totally overpower those parts of the screen. The Apple Studio Display XDR on the left has the best contrast, but there are some parts that are a little harder to see. The ViewSonic display (can’t be bothered to look up the model number) looks the grayest and flattest, but doesn’t have any reflections visible at all. There’s also a fake tree to the left and a framed promo shot of a blue 2000 Honda Insight.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

I love getting my Reminders Rewind 🥰 (what I have decided to call the bug where a deleted Reminders list from years ago is randomly resurrected with a ⚠️ emoji)

Screenshot of Reminders.app on macOS, with a list at the bottom called “House List ⚠️” containing some grocery items. This is in addition to another list called “Store,” which is the current grocery list.

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Looks like the pumpkin on my porch exploded Looney Tunes-style

Concrete porch with a big gray circular ring, kind of looking like the ashy remains of a cartoon explosion

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

ipinkne and comblueter (still workshopping that)

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Efficiency cores are now performance cores. Not to be confused with performance cores, which are now super cores. Except some computers still have efficiency cores. New computers that would have had performance cores now have super cores. Older computers still have […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]