18FEB2024
Happy President's Day weekend to all! It's been a fun one here in Austin between an outing with a good buddy to see a Zombie Surf Rock trio, an amazing date night with my lady, and even more Lunar New Year celebrations with the kiddos. I hope everyone else is making the most of the weekend, doubly so if you are getting a long weekend.
For my fellow Vision Pro nerds, I've pulled together some additional notes and recommendations from my second week with it, that I've posted here.
On to the good stuff--
- 😴 Hostage tape - About a year and a half ago I read James Nestor's Breath and it totally rocked my world. Inspired by the book to cut out all my mouth breathing ways, I found Hostage Tape and I haven't looked back since. This thick black tape goes over your mouth at bedtime and ensures you breath through your nose while you sleep, putting an end to snoring, sleep apnea, dry mouth, and more. I'm sleeping way better, and waking way more refreshed when I use this tape than when I don't.
- 🎧 Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise - Cabel Sasser set out to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, he accidentally discovered an incredible lost song that was cut from Walt Disney's Cinderella. This is an amazing story, worth enjoying over a coffee or other beverage.
- 📰 Bulletin Smart RSS Reader - After the premature death of Artifact news reader, I've been going back down the RSS rabbit hole, and was excited to find Bulletin launching this week-- It pulls together news sources of interest to you and then uses AI to cut through clickbait headlines and create actually useful article summaries for you to quickly parse your news feeds. I'm just digging in to it, but really liking what I'm seeing so far.
- 👾 Afterplay - Afterplay is a very cool, web browser based emulator that lets you play all your old retro games (Gameboy, Nintendo, Atari, Sega, you name it) in any browser-- including on the iPhone and Vision Pro with a connected bluetooth remote.
- 🖋️ Slate App for iPad - The good folks at Astropad (who make my favorite paper-like screen protector for the iPad), just released an iPad app that lets you use your iPad as an input source for your Mac-- Using an Apple Pencil as a mouse/trackpad, drawing on your Mac, handwriting and signing documents on your Mac, etc. Very clever as usual from this team.
That's it for this week, be well everyone!