MacStories Weekly: Issue 451

Reading List
My Obsidian Setup, Part 11: My New Dashboard Note and Its Dataview Queries
My Obsidian Setup, Part 10: My New Daily Note Template for Quick, Effective Note-Taking
Introducing Gazzetta, The Best Way to Read News & Links on Mastodon on iPhone and iPad
Gazzetta is a free app for iPhone and iPad, that is like an RSS reader for Mastodon. Available now on the App Store.
Code of Conduct
My Obsidian Template Setup Powered by Shortcuts, Things, and the Actions App
Behind the Scenes of My iOS and iPadOS 18 Review
Obsidian Shortcut Launcher 1.1 Brings Support for File Properties and Backlinks - MacStories
Two years ago, we released Obsidian Shortcut Launcher, a free plugin to trigger shortcuts from Obsidian with the ability to pass input text to Apple’s automation app. In case you missed it in January 2022, here’s how I described the plugin: With Obsidian Shortcut Launcher (or ‘OSL’), you’ll be able to trigger any shortcut you want from
Tracking the Spiritual Jazz Revival
From its roots in the ‘60s to today, the genre remains a profound force for connection and expression.
Machine Girl Enter The Matrix
The duo's massive new album "MG Ultra" embraces the chaos of the early internet as a cudgel to fight off big-tech-assisted brain rot.
How to publish a note on the web (to share it with others)
You can publish any note on the web and share it with other people by sending them the weblink. The note is read-only and the recipient just needs a web browser
TARGET 8: Two deadly incidents highlight lack of clear policy for crisis intervention by Columbia police
The department does not have a policy that specifically details how an officer should respond to a call requesting a welfare check.
The Hybrid (album) - Wikipedia
Acid Rap
Barely out of his teens, Chancelor Bennett has transformed himself from a suspended high school student to a much adored Chicago rapper. His second mixtape, Acid Rap, invites elements of classic soul, juke, gospel, blues-rock, drill, acid jazz, house, ragtime scat, and R. Kelly, Twista, and a young Kanye to the same open mic poetry night.
Coloring Book
Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book is one of the strongest rap albums released this year, an uplifting mix of spiritual and grounded that even an atheist can catch the Spirit to.
Chappell Roan - Wikipedia
Chappell Roan Concert Review: Cambridge’s Pink Pony Club | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
Roan delivered a crowd-pleasing performance full of heart and energy. Her connection with the audience left fans eager for her return.
MacStories Weekly: Issue 429
The way we interact with apps is changing, so should the way they are designed.
The current state of apps and the advent of Apple Intelligence makes it important to have an action centered design approach to designing apps. The phone is only a part of a much larger ecosystem.
Terminology: Basic Navigation
Header and Top Area
Terminology's main screen visible when browsing any term. The current term is displayed in the header. Any text, term or phrase may be current, even if it is not available...
Terminology iCloud Sync
If you have a valid iCloud account configured on your device, Terminology will enable iCloud sync and backup by default. When enabled, all favorites, term browsing history, notes and actions will ...
About Terminology's Dictionary
What is the source of Terminology’s dictionary?
Terminology is based on Princeton University’s WordNet lexical database. WordNet is a semantic reference focused on the relationships between words i...
Terminology Actions
What are Actions?
Terminology has configurable actions to open other resources related to the term you are browsing. Actions are based on dynamically constructed URLs with embedded tags and can o...
Terminology Tag Reference
Terminology’s custom actions support a number of tags for dynamically inserting text when an action is performed.
[[term]] : The current term being browsed in the app.
[[term_url]] : A URL that ...
troponym - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
ColdFusion Markup Language - Wikipedia
Chat Wars | David Auerbach
In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Microsoft’s instant messaging app. The terrible name came from Marketing, which had become something of a joke for always picking the clunkiest and least imaginative product names. Buddy List? C U C Me? MSN Messenger? No, MSN Messenger Service. I’ll call it Messenger for short.
The Cultural Ascendancy of the New Young Right
Among the gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America.
RFC 9639: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
This document defines the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format and its streamable subset. FLAC is designed to reduce the amount of computer storage
space needed to store digital audio signals. It does this losslessly,
i.e., it does so without losing information. FLAC is free in the sense that its specification is open and its reference implementation is open source.
Compared to other lossless audio coding formats, FLAC is a format with low
complexity and can be encoded and decoded with little computing
resources. Decoding of FLAC has been implemented independently
for many different platforms, and both encoding and decoding can
be implemented without needing floating-point arithmetic.
How AI can help in User Research
For the user research of my thesis, I used NotebookLM to organise, synthesize, and expand on my insights. It's a great research organization tool that provides utility of drawing connections between discreet topics and helping me understand my own journey better.