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🇺🇦 Richard Gunther 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸
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Tech consultant with UX tendencies. Smart home geek. Grammar geek. Occasional podcaster. Laser engraving & 3D printing enthusiast. Twitter emigrant. Dog dad […]

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Me, after hearing Last Christmas for the 100th time: “Hey, Siri, play this song less often.”

Siri:
An iPhone music widget shows a song called “Less often” playing.
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A cold, snowy day calls for breaking out the Winter socks! Icelandic wool will keep me warm. (Yes, I have a Winter sock drawer.)
A half-open draw shows a pile of thick, wool socks. There's a grey, 3D-printed tip on the corner of the drawer with the image of a snowflake on it. A foot wearing an Icelandic wool sock from 66° North.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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My partner has polluted my Replay results with Meat Loaf. 😭

One might ask why I listen to so much instrumental music. Easy answer: I listen while I work, and I can't concentrate with lyrics.

#replay25 #music
My Top Artists from Apple's Replay '25: 1 Thomas Bergersen: 1,605 minutes 2 Hans Zimmerman: 1,488 minutes 3 Meat Loaf: 1458 minutes 4 Seal: 780 minutes
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A photograph taken around this time of year on the Sólheimafjara beach in southern Iceland. It was 14 years ago. I'd never seen black sand, let alone a black sand beach with white snow on it. It was a beautiful and surreal experience. #iceland #photo #photography
Tire tracks on a black sand beach lead to the back end of a parked vehicle. The tail lights and a shovel attached to the back of the SUV are all that's visible of the vehicle in the foreground. Snow on the beach and white, foamy ocean waves in the background contrast with black sand.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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CNN’s “middle third” teaser promo of the upcoming senate vote would be better written from the leading “Senate Votes to End Govt Shutdown” to “Senate to Vote to End Gov’t Shutdown.” One word, indicating it’s not a forgone conclusion, would better represent the […]

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Thee CNN on-screen promo predictively reads “Happening Soon: Senate Votes to End Govt Shutdown”
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I'm fully prepared to be Rick-rolled...
An Apple Music screen grab shows a new EP from Rick Astley featuring six new recordings that include two recent remasters. The EP is called Covers and features an image of Rick standing with an electric guitar, facing away from the camera toward a bright light.
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I may or may not have just finished off the remains of some Pistachio Pistachio right out of the container.
A (seemingly empty) pint container of Ben & Jerry's Pistachio Pistachio ice cream sits with a spoon in it.
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I find CarPlay's widgets, in comparison to the rest of the CarPlay experience, chunky and amateurish. Curious to hear others' perspectives.
A widescreen screen capture of a CarPlay screen shows three widgets. On the left edge, a vertical toolbar shows the time, signal strength, battery state, app icons, focus mode, and home button. The screen then displays three large information blocks across horizontally: a large analog clock, a weather widget showing the current conditions in Corolla (Sunny and 80), and a stocks widget showing the DOW and NASDAQ indices down and AAPL up a bit.
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Apple: We have new design guidance for apps on all our updated platforms.

Microsoft: Yeah, that's OK...we're going to keep doing our own thing...

#ux #design #branding #icon
A stylized logo for Microsoft Outlook sort of looks like multiple layers of folded blue paper formed in the shape of an envelope. A letter "O" in a box attempts to convey the Outlook identity.
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Note to self: Don’t cover Seklema mat with parchment paper when storing. #laserengraving
A hand is seen pulling—more like ripping—paper off of a Johnson Plalstics Plus-branded Seklema mat. The paper is tearing and crumpled, since it is not coming off easily.
September 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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First kale, then these salted cardboard chips. I’ve been making poor food decisions today.
A close up of a bag of Wegmans Organic Restaurant-Style Tortilla Chips
August 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Updated the iPadOS beta on my iPad mini. They’ve toned down the glass effects dramatically, to the point that the glass animations that I’m sure teams spent months “perfecting” look woefully out of place. I’m most disappointed that the new “windowed” multitasking […]

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Options in iPadOS Multitasking settings show Full Screen Apps, Windowed Apps, and Stage Manager. Gone is Split View & Slide Over
August 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Then maybe—just maybe—these should be radio buttons instead of check boxes? The web seemed a whole lot easier to use when everyone couldn’t design their own (poorly contrived) components. #bui
August 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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A question to whatever company manufactures CyberPower UPSes: What year do you think this is?
A hand holds up a USB A to B cable in front of a brand new uninterrupted power supply.
August 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Today's project: replace these ceiling can lights, which are all on the same circuit, with Hue bulbs to create three zones: tv wall, room, and closet. Yes—even the closet is on the same circuit. (Don't ask.) #smarthome
A stark room has a TV on one wall with two overhead lights above it. Two additional ceiling lights are above an area that appears to have a table lamp in it. In the background we see a door slightly ajar and light in the space behind it.
July 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Happy (late) Sunday morning, Fedis. Completed a few small projects yesterday, so I’m feeling fairly accomplished so far this weekend. Printed my first vase-style lamp globe just to get a feel for how that works—looking to retrofit some cheep ceiling “disc” lights […]

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A compact ceiling led fixture with the diffuser removed exposes individual LEDs and slots to secure a diffuser. Next that, a custom-printed diffuser prototype made from white PLA sits with its clips pointed up. In the background, there’s a blue transparent 3-d printed globe with a dimpled texture.
July 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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[ST:SNW S03E02 Spoilers & thirst]

I'm conflicted on this one. The introduction of a Q-kid seems unnecessarily contrived, yet it gives a believable, heartfelt premise for breaking apart Chapel and Spock. I did get a kick out of Korby and Spock working together to […]

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A B&W photo of a stubble-bearded man looking broodingly at the camera. He has dark hair, pronounced eyebrows, and is wearing a white T-shirt.
July 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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@jcrabapple It’s one of my all-time favorite series.
A screenshot shows a “Favorite shows” list of series posters comprising The West Wing, Battlestar Galactica, When We Left Earth, The Newsroom, Ted Lasso, Chernobyl, Friday Night Lights, Alias, Mare of Easttown, Welcome to Wrexham, The Orville, The Last of Us, What We Do in the Shadows, This is Us, Schitt$ Creek, The Imagineering Story, Glee, and Ally McBeal.
July 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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WTF is up with tonight’s air quality? Is this all from fireworks? Then why are we still doing fireworks‽ #dc #dmv #airquality #aqi
A web page shows that the air quality in 3 different DC locations is above 300 (310, 304, and 596!) and considered hazardous.
July 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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This eclectic list of my "all time" most played songs is intriguing but not surprising. #music cc: @macosken
A playlist in Apple Music lists the following tunes, from the top: Aura by Thomas Bergersen I'm Cruella by Nicholas Britell Cyclone by Reid Lee Wave the Old World Goodbye by Simply Red Brassy Sunrise (Symphonic Version) by Deep Forest The Moment I Said It by Imogen Heap Wait by M83 Home of the Brave by Thomas Bergersen Proud by Heather Small Dreaming with a Broken Heart by John Mayer Matera by [artist hidden below the fold]
July 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The Microsoft Office for Mac team has done a really good job of building software that feels like it belonged on the Mac circa 2003. #ux #design #microsoft #bui #mac
The Outlook Settings panel on Mac is designed to look and behave like settings panels from Macs of years past. Fonts are stale and hard to read, icons are flat and (some are) shaded, and it generally doesn't feel current or modern.
June 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Did my duty today.
A hand is holding a round "I Voted" sticker with a US flag on it.
June 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Today is Icelandic National Day. Wishing everyone in Iceland well today on this day of celebration. #iceland
An Icelandic flag on a flagpole is waving in the wind. Behind the flag are rock outcrops from the rift between the two continental plates that meet at Þingvellir National Park.
June 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Day 2 teaching Agile Essentials. Let's do this! #agile #scaledagile #softwaredevelopment #training #virtualtraining
An orange title slide with subtle geographic patterns and shading from a presentation deck. "Lean, Agile & Scaled Agile Essentials" presented by Springbach Consulting.
June 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Just returned from a quick Disney World trip, somehow not realizing that it was the start of Pride. Love seeing Disney embracing, promoting, and yes, even profiting from Pride. Particularly in light of Florida’s anti-gay stance. 25yo me would have been shocked […]

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An art piece on a fence comprises multiple mickey-shaped balloons in various pride color combinations. A Stitch plushy adorned with pride symbols in rainbow colors A rainbow-adorned droid CI-RN8W (get it—rainbow?) figurine A collection of Disney pins on a lanyard with rainbow Mickey heads
June 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM