Andy Macdonald

not because it's easy youtu.be/WZyRbnpGyzQ?si…

@AmandaBPerino i happily used dropbox for many years, only switching to icloud because i’d upgraded that plan and didn’t need both

@theANDYM If I had an iphone I think icloud would make the most sense to include photos. But alas....Android phone user over here.

What backup service would you recommend? I used to have a Timemachine and Backblaze double whammy for my Mac, but wondering if I should try something else.

@LeoDuffOff @ilyamiskov @yakinbozek @raycastapp took me a couple install/uninstall cycles before i really bought into it

Mac menubar apps I use all the time ⬇️ - - - - - 1) CleanShot – The best screenshot/screen recording app that exists out there 2) PixelSnap – Lets you measure anything on your screen. Helpful for quickly gathering distances between objects in pixels 3) Sip – A very powerful color picker, with history and collections of color palettes 4) Magnet – A tool for snapping your windows into organized tiles 5) PastePal – Super powerful clipboard manager that stores anything you copy/save in your clipboard including images. Also syncs to iPad and iPhone. 6) We Love Lights – An app for controlling Philips Hue lights and scenes 7) Simplify – An awesome little music player that lives in the menubar 8) iTranslate – Menubar language translator app 9) Vivid – Lets you unleash full 1000 nits of sustained brightness (Only on MacBook Pros released since October 2021) 10) Hand Mirror – Awesome little app for showing your webcam preview. Very useful for checking your looks prior to meetings 11) Bartender – Declutters your menubar by hiding the items/icons you don't want to see.

@therobotjames @threadreaderapp unroll

nobody asked, but i'm very turned off by this idea of "second brains" and note-taking systems. i don't think knowledge wants to be categorized for the sake of it and useful stuff feels alive and salient - you'll remember it and the most important thing is always here and now

@nope_its_lily @luoxiaxia also seems that the incentive to scrape is lower because tweets are primarily short-form text, so easier to assume they can be parsed as such vs other forms of media. which makes it easier to store and/or derive value

@nope_its_lily @luoxiaxia would be interesting to know what these anomalous scraping patterns look like / if they differ from other instances of high-volume scraping. i’d guess volume of tweet creation is higher and more frequent, requiring additional burden vs “slower” forms of posting (FB, IG, YT, etc)

automation people, is there an automation for messages that can hook into before send message and one for edit so i can implement s// corrections?

@ormanclark Closet is all black. Best choice I ever made was removing the need to make one.

@jessica_kirsh @TeslaAIBot @elonmusk "If I could drink all of my calories, proteins..." You can get pretty close with Soylent.

The grocery store in addition to food preparation is one of the most anxiety inducing tasks for me, out of all things. I will go without food just because of the anxiety of have about going to the store to get food. Right now, I’m in that exact situation where my anxiety is so high, yet I’m so hungry — that I feel almost paralyzed. So, my #1 task I’ll have my Optimus Bot do (first) will be go get groceries for me. #2 will be to prepare and plate the food or blend it all up, so I can just drink it. The faster the better. Eating is such a waste of time and energy. If I could drink all of my calories, proteins, etc I need in a day, I would.

🤣🤣 @elonmusk

From 2015 back to the Big Bang, in 12 tweets. Each subsequent timeline contains all the previous timelines. 1/12

@CSI_Starbase @elonmusk @SpaceX the @spacex graphic has 3 out on liftoff

@elonmusk @SpaceX I believe these engines were lost immediately on liftoff. As soon as the booster cleared the pad it started performing an Astra Powerslide. That was a tense moment. Looked like it wasn't going to make it

Booster 7 lost at least 6 engines before reaching MaxQ. This was absolutely incredible to witness. Congratulations @elonmusk and the @SpaceX team!

@CSI_Starbase suppose it’s heavy enough ;p

It’s pretty insane that the Hold Down Clamps are released 15 minutes prior to liftoff!

@ped ahh yeah, not sure if there’s any good solution for that. previously used gboard before ios got swipe, but not sure if it’s any better for emoji these days. suppose you could just adopt typing `:wink` and let your recipients figure it out

@theandym ooh interesting! but need ios!

that feeling when you go search for an emoji by name, knowing that returning to the regular keyboard will take an ungodly amount of effort, not to mention sheer luck

What's going on here?

Time is the ultimate currency

@paulg I’m curious what % crypto represents of overall investment for your friend?

A friend of mine who is basically never wrong about financial questions converted 80% of his Bitcoin into Ethereum.

@dhruvalives this.

Depression is one of the leading causes of disability. Be aware of your mental health!