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Jon Mitchell
@jon.wears.tigerpajamas.com.ap.brid.gy
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Publishing @ Tiger Pajamas Web Site Company

Writer-technologist with many websites under my belt. Father of daughters, rabbi’s husband, giver and recipient […]

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Hot take: I want this on iOS/iPadOS
A screenshot of the TextEdit icon in a dock on macOS 26 Tahoe
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This Safari menu should have app extensions
The mysterious “…” menu in the bottom bar of Safari in the iOS 26 beta
July 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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@phil I have bad news from you upon launching the News app this morning
6:341 75 75 Kamala Harris 40 Dems SENATE 40 GOP 100 Dems HOUSE Donald Trump 100 GOP Follow the election live You'll get real-time updates on your Home Screen and Lock Screen starting Tuesday night. Follow Live Not Now
November 5, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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@ricmac Ivory was apparently already ready to go!
October 8, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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The fact that this widget doesn’t have chapter skip buttons feels somewhat punitive
The small iOS Home Screen widget for Overcast, showing the podcast Upgrade playing. The bottom of the square widget has an ovoid play/pause button and plenty of room on either side of it for chapter skip buttons.
October 1, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Look how accessible this product label is
A left hand holding a can of some kind of horrible bubbly wine with pale yellow print on a white label. I would really love to tell you more about it, but I literally can’t read the label.
September 29, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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UH.

I DON’T WANT TO JINX IT, BUT

I THINK APPLE FIXED THIS
< Back Appearance Schedule Schedule times to change appearance automatically. iPhone may wait to transition until you are not using the screen. Sunset to Sunrise Custom Schedule
September 24, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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I cannot believe Macworld published this image
An AI-generated image of what is supposed to look like an Apple product that is a freakish amalgam of a gray HomePod with an iPad stapled to its face. The content on the screen is incomprehensible AI goo. The device is on a wooden desk with a lamp and other unidentifiable AI-hallucinated implements of unknowable purpose or provenance.
September 5, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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People might not be aware of the magic here. Those bins are transparent PNGs I found online many years ago (happy to share) that are perfectly proportioned to contain the icons of files in a folder set to display as a “Stack” in the Dock.

I just made […]

[Original post on wears.tigerpajamas.com]
A screenshot of the right side of the macOS dock with three folders in it that have translucent colored bin icons. The rightmost one, with a gray bin, is expanded in “Fan” view, and five different kinds of file icons are fanned out above it with an “Open in Finder” arrow at the top.
September 4, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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I don’t know anybody else who still manages files on the Mac like this, but I will never stop.
The right side of a macOS dock with three folders, each with a different colored semi-transparent bin or inbox icon in front of the system-generated stack of file icons from their respective folders. The first one is teal and has a square graphic of a rainbow-colored wheel diagram in it. The second is orange and has a blue macOS folder icon in it with some kind of rectangular white document behind it. The third is gray and has a black rectangular file icon, probably a video file, in it. The trash can is full.
September 3, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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“nO onE Is buYInG THE viSIoN pro”

If you met someone today, you hit it off talking about technology, and you went over to their house and saw that they had one of these, what would you say to them about it?
Original Macintosh (1984), photo by Sailko (CC license) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
August 20, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Gurman today:
Another advantage of plastic: The material allows for bolder colors than aluminum and is probably more kid- friendly. It's no coincidence that Apple revamped its watch marketing several weeks ago to appeal to parents. With recent school phone bans, Apple has been touting its watch as a low-cost phone alternative that can help parents stay in touch with their children — and track their whereabouts.
August 11, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Wait, you guys have shareholders?
https://mas.to/@nmoo/112842325615573406
The guy from the “Wait, you guys are getting paid?” meme, a young caucasian male making a confused face in a hideously striped polo shirt standing in front of a big RV
July 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Hey look @ricmac, I got promoted
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July 23, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Just let it be known to @instapaper that I would spend an unlimited amount of time, uncompensated, talking to them about how I’ve used their product every day for 13 years and what I’d like to see happen to it now that it is on a hopefully sustainable path.
A screenshot of the My Apps section of the App Store app for iPhone, showing an initial download date for Instapaper of July 3, 2011
July 14, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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0008, baby
A list of folders in Apple Notes. The parent folder is labeled Clients, and indented below it are eight child folders numbered 0001 through 0008.
July 13, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Breaking news from obnoxiousnewcorporatebuzzwords.com
A preview of a Wall Street Journal article on Apple News with an image of a headless person in a business suit. The headline is “An obnoxious new corporate buzzword is here”
July 10, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Fuck — and I cannot stress this enough — sports streaming rights.
June 30, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Thrilled to report that visionOS 2 masks out my Keychron K2 as if it were Apple-made.
A sandy beach with a ghostly hand and mechanical keyboard floating over it.
June 15, 2024 at 7:54 PM