What’s the first date that nytimes.com doesn’t have the word Trump on it? (15 occurrences right now.)

Did it really need to be Diff’rent Strokes instead of Different Strokes? Do people say it differently because of that? Or was it just some weird legal thing like they needed that to be able to trademark it?

Interesting to see the LIDAR on the iPhone 12 Pro Max does massively improve depth in portrait mode, but not in the preview, only in the final shot. (cc @gruber)

Note the back rank pieces:

Zoom / Video Call plug-in idea: Each participant has a percentage displayed in the corner for how much of the time they talked / were in the featured spotlight.

I always wonder how common my pet peeves are. One thing that infuriates me is when a tv show starts every episode with a rundown of scenes that will be in that episode.

We’re self-serve trick-or-treat tonight, but still doing the full-size vs fidget spinner dilemma.

Apparently my - subdomain was breaking https (which makes some sense - the dash appears to be a valid character to use but not allowed as the first or last character in a subdomain). So now I’m u.micro.blog. (which goes reasonably well with my @_ username)

In the first half of 2016 a half dozen celebrities died and we all thought it was the worst a year could ever get.

Catching up on what’s changed around here and thinking more how I might like to use a blog in my post-Twitter days.