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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 6h

Harvie is tired of all the bullshit.

An orange and gray cat with split colors down her face, glaring at a spot near the camera, wishing to not be bothered as she sits 3 and a half inches away from my ear on the back of the couch.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 12/09/2026

It's always weird not ordering something on iPhone pre-order day.

Squidward from SpongeBob looking out of a window labeled "Those ordering iPhone Duo" looking down at SpongeBob and Patrick having fun labeled "Those ordering iPhone 18 Pro"

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 05/09/2026

Marble, Agatha, and Harvie say hi. We're pretty sure they're all cats, but the jury is still out on if Marble is in fact a squirrel.

Marble is a Maine coon mix that’s full grown yet very small with big eyes and patterns gray, white, and brown fur

Agatha is a black cat and he’s lounging on a couch with a red light behind him, his big eyes looking up

Harvie is orange and brown with her colors split down the middle of her face and she’s giving a grumpy look

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 25/08/2026

Looks like they've updated the schedule with a Dolly tribute hour starting at 4pm on Apple Music Country.

The Apple Music Country Radio station schedule showing Dolly Parton Essentials planned for the 4-5pm EST slot.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 17/07/2026

Chiitan? haha, how even.

Chiitan liked a post about Roblox and Fortnite being terrible for the game industry.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 06/07/2026

I'm certain Agatha would have won here.

A black cat captured in black and white with sun shining from the corner, the background blacked out thanks to it being a black felt chair.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 24/06/2026

My thermal sticker printer unfortunately took its own life before it could finish printing this masterpiece.

A comic strip on a sticker by Sam Antics showing Garfield and Jon in an old style, the last frame is ruined

The ruined panel showing a frame that didn't print correctly

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 12/06/2026

@basicappleguy.com I wanted to see what Apple's AI extend would do with something abstract and well...

An abstract and colorful wallpaper filled with odd shapes and curves. The outer edge has a sketched background where AI artificially extended the borders.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 10/06/2026

Having a completely normal one testing this.

A screenshot of the new Siri AI app showing various chats about video games and Apple products.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 29/05/2026

A post in a Kagi forum from the Kagi CEO in 2024z. If this is still true, I wouldn't want to use them either. I'm still on DuckDuckGo until a new default in Safari is available anyway. Hmmmmmm kagifeedback.org/d/5445-recon...

A reply to a post on Kagi by the CEO on use of Yandex:

search results, period. Kagi excels at this precisely because we remain unimpressed by world politics. The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine.

Yandex represents about 2% of our total costs and is only one of dozens of sources we use. To put this in perspective: removing any single source would degrade search quality for all users while having minimal economic impact on any particular region.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 22/05/2026

Don't mind me, just working with one foot on Jupiter's moon and another in my office.

A spatial workstation viewed through Apple Vision Pro overlaid on an L-shaped desk, the Jupiter environment dialed in slightly, widgets on the wall featuring the clock, weather, music, ad photos, and apps open to a text document, Safari, and RSS feed. The room is dimmed and objects like a keyboard, notepad, and more are visible.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 15/05/2026

This is lovely as a lock screen!

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 15/05/2026

Sony's AI camera assistant is so helpful! I don't think I'd ever have taken that second photo without its help!!

An iMac G3 toy figure with a face, arms, and legs, in bondi blue, on a desk with normal exposure

An iMac G3 toy figure with a face, arms, and legs, in bondi blue, on a desk with overblown exposure

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 01/05/2026

- I wish the invoice was more customizable/editable - My projects don't have tasks or sub groupings, but the Invoice shows the task as 0 hours then a sub task of "general" and a subtotal then total? It should only show the one main task field. Otherwise it's pretty solid. I like the various views.

An invoice showing a table with a description and quantity field above editorial, general, and subtotal for editorial.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 24/04/2026

Another journaling milestone in Apple Journal.

Apple Journal Insights page showing a 600 day streak, 131 weekly streak, 115 entries this year, 1.9k days journaled, 165 restaurant visits, and 216k word written.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 23/04/2026

Bluesky photo update means it is time for some cat pics.

Marble is a brown and black patterned cat with a pink nose and green/yellow eyes. She's reaching out with her paw, claws extended, in a big stretch from behind a fern. It makes her look like a jungle cat on the prowl.

Harvie is a cat with orange and gray fur on her face, a white chin, and patterned dark fur on her body. She sits with her chin pointed up and eyes looking high as she lies on the wood floor of a screened in porch. A fern is visible in front of a trellis behind her.

Agatha is a black cat and he's seated at the kitchen table. His big yellow eyes look away from a blue alcoholic drink in a margarita glass on the table. His mouth is open slightly so you can see his fangs in a goofy expression.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 07/04/2026

Idk when this happened, but thanks @bsky.app and Apple for whatever magic allowed native in-line video playback in iMessage.

A video of a dog breaking an obstacle course shown above a link preview from Bluesky embedded in an iMessage thread. The text below says "oh hey look, native video playback in Messages. Nice one Bluesky.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 26/02/2026

Love that this is the result of putting Tim Cook and F1 into Image Playground. Just inexplicably bad. 🤣 Excited for Drive to Survive on Apple TV tonight though.

An AI generated image of Apple CEO Tim Cook in a racecar but he's the wrong proportions and makes it look more like a toy where his legs wouldn't have space.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 14/02/2026

The cats are not happy we had to leave them for a Valentine's date at the cat cafe.

A large white and gray cat sits at the end of a blue recliner, sun beaming through a window with a parted red curtain, which shows many holes from cats climbing the curtain, and a black cat sitting and looking out of the window in the background.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 13/02/2026

Sobble says the best way to watch YouTube on Apple Vision Pro is still Television by Sandwich.

In Apple Vision Pro, a VR headset, an immersive environment of the beach at Bora Bora, a blue water Pokemon Sobble that has a yellow fin and curling tail, sitting in front of an old-fashioned TV on the beach watching the opening theme of Pokemon. All VR objects placed into the space.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 11/02/2026

It's apparently that easy. lmao

A stock market graph for Apple, AAPL, showing a sudden drop at the end of the trading day.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 08/02/2026

Harvie doesn't seem to care about the Super Bowl all that much.

Harvie the cat with half orange and half gray hair looks intimidating on a kitchen table

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 05/02/2026

Operation listen to full albums is going great so far. All of my top artists and albums reflect one play through of an album.

Apple Music top albums for January 2026 for Wesley Hilliard: Incubus Monuments and Melodies, Death Cab for Cutie Plans, Linkin Park From Zero, Chance The Rapper The Big Day, Claire Rosinkranz Just Because, Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil, natalie jinju Last September, Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city, Logic Under Pressure, Tomoo Dear Mysteries.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 15/01/2026

When you select the photo for your lock screen there's a hexagonal button by the ellipsis that turns it into a special scene lock screen. iPhone 12 or later on iOS 26. 😀

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 15/01/2026

Makes for a great spatial scene lock screen on iPhone.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 09/01/2026

Cleaning up my music library by removing singles and adding their full albums under each artist, then listening to albums in their entirety. No idea why I became so focused on singles for the past decade when I grew up listening to CDs. Anyway, here's my most recent albums. Album names in alt text.

Album art for Remi Wolf "Juno" (A woman squatting with dogs patterned on the background), Alabama Shakes "Boys & Girls" (White album cover with circle patterns under the album and artist name), Linkin Park "From Zero" (a metallic triangle symbol in pink and blue ink), Sarah Kang "How I Remember" (A sketched woman sitting in grass), Laufy "Bewitched" (A woman laying down in a dress with a shiny piece of headgear and star earrings), Tomoo "Dear Mysteries" (A wreath on a shelf with smoke and various items and books), Linkin Park "Hybrid Theory" (A man in a hoodie with graffiti fairy wings holding a pennant flag), Panic! At the Disco "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" (Magazine style clippings of various artist party goers at a bar seat), and natalie jinju "Last September" (woman walking through a library)

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 07/01/2026

Idc if you use Instagram, but I'm more confused by the reaction to Instagram doing Nazi shit and you feeling the need to find ways to bypass their Nazi rules. Maybe don't use the Nazi platform, that would be a better protest than giving voice to their platform and blocking people that disagree.

A post from slothroosmap saying they blocked someone for asking why they use Instagram.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 06/01/2026

This is weird, idk how, but for some reason the Apple Watch says I burned 1400 calories while working from my desk today, with the most active 340 or so calorie hour taking place when I know I didn't even stand up. Funny enough, no odd heart rate or exercise data just calorie. All from Watch.

Apple Watch goal rings closed with the Move metric shown as 1431/400 calories.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 30/12/2025

Some fights in this game are wild. First the musician now a mime. Fun fight, nearly had me there, but I learned the timing enough to pull through.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 13/12/2025

Does anyone know the source of this image? Perhaps @basicappleguy.com ?

The "this is fine" dog but he's wearing an Apple Vision Pro with the house burning down.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 10/12/2025

Managed to get an order in for an Analogue 3D. I've got a pretty excellent collection of N64 games and can't wait to play them on this. Plus, 007 is going to be excellent for parties.

A transparent purple modern version of the Nintendo 64 console with the word "grape" in the background. The curved unit has four ports in the front for controllers.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 03/12/2025

Forget your end of year wraps, show me your Apple Journal stats.

The Apple Journal Insights tab, it shows:

- 458 day current streak (which is the longest streak)
- 110 weeks longest weekly streak
- 367 entries this year
- 1.8k days journaled (all time)
- visited (shrimp glyph representing restaurant visits) 138 times
- written 200,826 words all time, 161 in December (it's the 3rd day of the month) and 40k words written this year

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 25/11/2025

Didn't Sbarro already do that?

An ad for Sbarro pizza showing a pizza box made to hold a single slice of pizza

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 19/10/2025

The wedding went great! I’m now a married man, and our honeymoon starts today.

A bearded man in a suit and a woman with blue hair in a wedding dress smiling at the camera.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 12/10/2025

Reading Gurman's newsletter and my post yesterday and it's amusing how we land in such different positions. He echoes the pundit view of "Apple must get AI right" when customers are buying iPhone 17 faster than iPhone 16 in spite of less AI promise up front. And I said this on glasses development:

Screenshot of text that says: "In the meantime, Apple plans to release a set of smart glasses. They're expected to be revealed in 2026 and sold by early 2027. If work on a thinner and lighter Apple Vision Pro has gone as far as it can in the short term, then there's no reason to leave team members focused there. I have little doubt that both Apple Vision Pro and smart glasses can and will exist in parallel."

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 02/10/2025

Handheld 40x on iPhone 17 Pro Max. Not bad

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 01/10/2025

Finished putting up our indoor and outdoor Halloween decorations today.

Agatha is our indoor black cat. He's in a box with red light shining on him, staring at me.

Magic is our outdoor black cat that gets good and chunky this time of year. He's on the front porch looking at me asking for food.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · 20/09/2025

iPhone 17 Pro Max 40x at night. Neat. No AI in sight 😆

A 40x shot on an iPhone 17 Pro Max of street signs that remain legible showing stop and pedestrian crossing.

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