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\"White

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\"Rocky

\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/2026/03/10/070652.html","date_published":"2026-03-10T14:06:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-10 14:06","date_timestamp":1773151612,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85572354","content_html":"

\"View

\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/2026/03/05/085105.html","date_published":"2026-03-05T16:51:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-05 16:51","date_timestamp":1772729465,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84168301","content_html":"My short review of the YouTube app on visionOS: It’s polished and perfectly nice. Hope they add some of the obvious missing features. But even if they don’t, I’m still very glad to have it.\n\nThe number one thing they got right: not assuming I automatically want to be immmersed in whatever I’m watching. Jus... micro.joecieplinski.com","summary":"","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/2026/02/12/my-short-review-of-the.html","date_published":"2026-02-13T03:24:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-13 03:24","date_timestamp":1770953074,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84144612","content_html":"And to the rest of you who are completely ignoring the platform: it’s really not hard to make your modern SwiftUI or UiKit based app native on visionOS. I’ve shipped three apps in the past year alone with maybe a few days worth of extra work for each.\n\nNo, it’s not going to make you a ton more money. But y... micro.joecieplinski.com","summary":"","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/2026/02/12/and-to-the-rest-of.html","date_published":"2026-02-12T20:01:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-12 20:01","date_timestamp":1770926472,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84144314","content_html":"

I get most Apple nerds have written off Vision Pro, because they either never bought one or never use the one they bought.

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But from one of the few who uses mine almost daily, let me just say, “Thanks, Google. And the whole YouTube team.” This is much appreciated.

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daringfireball.net/linked/20…

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Text is cheap. Image generation costs real tokens. That’s your order of magnitude, I’m thinking.

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All those power plants they want to build in space? That’s for video. We don’t need much more power for text than we already have.

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@danielpunkass can’t wait to chat with you over a few drinks in June about this. I feel like we’re on the same page.

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@manton the problem with ads is we’ve been promised a hundred times that “it’ll be different this time.” Remember when Google Ads were supposed to change the world, because they would be so smart you’d only ever see ads for things you actually want? How long did that last?

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Ads always mark a turning point for quality on any product. People are right to be skeptical. It never ends well.

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@manton I think most of the gang here trusts your judgment on such things. Your approach thus far as been well thought out and, as expected, community focused.

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AI demands such cautious optimism. Unfortunately, too many in our circles insist on living on either end of the spectrum of diving in head first with zero care for the consequences, or sticking one’s head in the sand and hoping it goes away.

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\"Very

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Editors get paid good money for a reason.

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“Unedited” is another word for lazy.

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Only someone who has little to no respect for their audience would present anything unedited.

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\"Looking

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Another day, another slew of idiotic hot takes.

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@danielpunkass genius.

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@bens it’s the latter. But puzzles are supposed to be tested to be sure it’s not possible to make the same word from different token combos. Clearly I need to adjust my tests here.

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@bens yeah. That looks like a bug. You can start the puzzle over and that should clear it out. But not sure how that happened.

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@crowdotblack Ha. Glad to help you verify.

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@crowdotblack um, my original post does have a link to both the web site and the App Store.

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I’ll put them here again, in case you didn’t see

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wordfluence.app

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apps.apple.com/us/app/wo…

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@manton thanks! Always fun to ship a new thing.

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/joec/78815921","date_published":"2025-11-27T00:37:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-27 00:37","date_timestamp":1764203848,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78802640","content_html":"Just in time for the holiday, if you happen to be traveling over the next few days and want to kill some time, my new game, Wordfluence, is now available for free on the App Store.\n\nI’d love it if you checked it out. Daily puzzles. Free to play. (You only pay if you want to cheat.)\n\nThis was a lot of fun, ... micro.joecieplinski.com","summary":"","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/2025/11/26/just-in-time-for-the.html","date_published":"2025-11-26T21:03:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-26 21:03","date_timestamp":1764191037,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"78673516","content_html":"

@patrickrhone holy crap. I never had a way to describe this to someone before. But I think this is me.

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I tell people “I only dream in audio.” Meaning, when I have dreams, I see nothing. I just hear voices. So I always know it’s not real. I’ve never been scared by dreams as a result.

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And when I close my eyes, it’s much the same. I can recall sounds. And I can describe things to myself in my head voice such that I can get enough context to process ideas. But I can’t “see” anything, per se.

\n

Fascinating.

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Getting close to release. Likely Monday.

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\"\"

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Runs natively on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/2025/11/19/runs-natively-on-iphone-ipad.html","date_published":"2025-11-19T17:09:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-19 17:09","date_timestamp":1763572183,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"78325963","content_html":"

Been working on a little daily word game. Hoping to release soon. If you’d like to check it out pre-release, TestFlgiht link is below.

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testflight.apple.com/join/aPnP…

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\"\"

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This is required viewing for anyone who wants to be a manager or run their own company.

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Damn, I miss Steve.

\n\n

stevejobsarchive.com/stories/p…

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again ; we were better off when the jocks were in charge.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/2025/11/13/ive-said-it-before-and.html","date_published":"2025-11-13T14:46:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Joe Cieplinski","url":"https://micro.joecieplinski.com/activitypub/joec","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F72.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"joec"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-13 14:46","date_timestamp":1763045211,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"77896972","content_html":"

I feel like every AI “friend” product that gets built needs to have a disclaimer where they show the people who actually programmed it, who haven’t showered or slept in a month, living in the office, with zero friends and a less than no social life.

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Yes, because when I’m feeling socially awkward, I turn to the least socially skilled in our society to give me advice on how to be more “human.”

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Fuck. All the way. Off.

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x.com/hassaanrz…

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@manton I think about hanging it all up and opening a coffee shop at least once every six months.

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No matter how many coffee shops open up in SF, there’s always room for one more.

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Some folks today should entertain the notion that maybe, just maybe, they don’t know squat about fashion.

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@cheesemaker they thought Portland was the perfect place to deploy their incitement tactics and produce their little reality TV show about war zones in America. Boy, did they get that wrong.

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When they go low, we go Frog.

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@manton Totally.

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I was surprised I couldn’t find any of the usual bloggers mentioning it. And of course it wasn’t part of any WWDC video or documentation from Apple I could find. (Unless my search skills aren’t what they used to be.)

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And this is one area where AI is even pretty useless, because it has no training on something so new.

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@lukemperez you’re making a very large assumption that we actually took out their nuclear materials. Pretty good chance Iran moved its stockpile the second Israel started bombing a week ago.

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\"Two

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@manton as usual, a well reasoned take.

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I do think it’s a risk for Apple. I also never count them out when they are “late” to anything.

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I find it funny all the people who were quite vociferously shouting from the rooftops that Apple “needs to announce something with AI” a year ago are now the same people saying they never should have announced Apple Intelligence if it wasn’t going to be ready.

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The mistake was listening to those voices last year. The delay is the course correction they needed.

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Like you said, they may very well end up losing this one. But I’m not super worried given the stare of the competition right now. Yes, the tech is getting better. But the product—the real killer app for AI is nowhere to be found yet.

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@manton exactly. It makes posting a more deliberate action. Though I can see why many would want to post from these apps directly, I am happy to pop over to the native micro.blog app to post this, for instance. It’s a check on me to be sure that what I want to say is worth the little extra effort.

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@manton for me, not being able to post is more of a feature than a bug. Since I tend to read a lot more than I post. Takes away the temptation to react to everything with more noise that in the scheme of things doesn’t help anyone.

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@kirbyt Yep. I have no idea how people watch commercials on a regular basis.

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@kirbyt ironically, I’m just catching up on season 2 now. (I don’t hate it as much as everyone else seems to.)

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But I wouldn’t mind finding an “alternate” way to view it. Without commercials.

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@manton canceling Prime would likely be even more effective.

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@manton well said. If you boycott every business that has a CEO you disagree with, pretty soon you won’t be able to buy anything. But this is definitely over the line. Thanks for the tip. They are off my list as well.

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@danielpunkass I’ve noticed this. visionOS version always gets reviewed faster.

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@davemark Also, for your weird text replacement bugs. I had it even worse. Then I went to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset. Then choose Reset Keyboard Dictionary. I found that helped clear out all the dumb crap that it had learned incorrectly.

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Still not perfect, but at least now most of my replacements at least make sense.

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@davemark my dad had similar surgery for his eyes. Hasn’t needed glasses since. And he wore glasses since he was seven. You’re going to love it.

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@davemark I couldn’t agree more. I want iPadOS to be refined into something more powerful, for sure. And I would like more Mac-like features for iPad. But it needs to be built with touch-first in mind. Something macOS could never–and should never–be.

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My hope is that iPadOS is more than marketing. That they are truly working on refining iPadOS in a way that will differentiate itself further from iOS over time. But these things don’t happen overnight. And like you said, you need to keep all the users who love the simplicity happy while also satisfying the power users. That’s a Herculean task.

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