Myke and I are very excited to announce that we will be hosting a live show next year in London to celebrate Relay’s 10th anniversary!
The show will be on July 27, 2024 at the epic Hackney Empire theatre in London. Details and tickets are both available now!
This week, Casey Liss rejoins the program to discuss his new app Callsheet and to give David and me a tour of the apps and services he uses to manage his media.
Matt Binder at Mashable, reporting on data from Travis Brown about Elon Musk’s 153 million followers:
Of the 153,209,283 X accounts following Musk at the time the data was collected, around 42 percent of Musk’s followers, or more than 65.3 million users, have zero followers on their own account. Just over 72 percent, or nearly 112 million, of these users following Musk have less than 10 followers on their account.
When it comes to content creation on the platform, more than 62.5 million Musk followers have zero tweets. This would include users who have deleted all of their tweets by the time this data was collected over the past few weeks as well as accounts that have never before tweeted. More than 100 million Musk followers have less than 10 tweets posted to their account.
While these answers aren’t necessarily representative of the world at large, I love to see my fellow Ultra wearers come out strong.
I honestly cannot believe that our weird little side project is now nine years old, and that I’ve been doing it full-time for eight. Over the last near-decade, I’ve gotten to work — and become friends — with so many amazing people.
To celebrate, we’ve got some very exciting news out to our members, via our Discord and the newsletter!
To celebrate Relay FM’s 9th birthday, Myke and I host a feelings podcast on this week’s Connected.
This bit was pretty spicy 25 years ago:
USB: 2 yes ADB: n/a Video: none Floppy: none SCSI: none Geoports: none
…Apple hasn’t updated the iMac in well over 800 days — which is the longest gap in recent memory and double the average gap between updates over its history. And that conspicuous hole in the M2 lineup has been making me wonder: in a future where MacBooks rule the market and most of the desktops Apple produces are niche, enthusiast products, where will the iMac fit?
Today marks 25 years since the original iMac was introduced. It saved Apple and changed the world.1 We live in a Notebook World today, but if Apple was going to reinvent itself in 1998, it was going to be with a desktop:
In a world of beige boxes, the iMac was new and different. Sure, it ran the same old (and kinda busted) Mac OS, but the design — and the move to USB — made huge waves, some of which are still felt today.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that my custom Alfred search to find things on Apple’s support website had broken, so I’ve reworked it a bit to match Apple’s adjusted search URLs.
In Alfred’s preferences, under Features, you can add a new Web Search. You can add a keyword, label and — most importantly — the URL Alfred will need to pass to the browser to fire your search results:
I backed this project years ago — and interviewed its creator, Noah Leon — and it’s very cool to see it available on YouTube for everyone:
Take some time this week and watch it.
Tom and Dan are back on Kickstarter with a new product named Keen, a very clever utility knife:
Like our Mark One pen, Keen is a simple object with a single interface, in this case the slider. Our job was so make that interaction as satisfying as possible, so that Keen is a delight to use every time you pick it up. We spent a lot of time getting the feel of the blade deployment just right. It is spring loaded, requiring just the right amount of force to slide out, and to not be too fatiguing when held out. When cutting, the slider is held by your thumb, then simply released to suck the blade back in. Not only is this satisfying every time, it’s safer, as the blade can never be left in the “out” position. An internal magnet helps secure the blade when closed, and adds a satisfying snap to the deployment.