Directly supporting independent artists for 30 years.
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Last Notes npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo “Do you understand why Apple Music is so rude and starts mixing in some other song at the end? Like I’m jamming to the last of my Dolly and then all of a sudden Whitney Houston or something will start playing over it? It’s awful. Who wants this? Why would that ever be the default?!” npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo This has been in the works for litterally years, including a whole year spent on a design where I tried rethought the whole navigation and I ended up hating itso we trashed it and started over... npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo I love that there’s clearly an encoding bug in Apple Music that if I try to click on Jäy-Z it crashes, every single time. Search fails too. People use to say “iTunes is bad” but it was never, ever this bad at basic stuff. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo More Evidence Olivia Rodrigo Is A Scientifically Designed Psy-op To Appeal To Gen-X Dads: npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Adobe is just fucking trolling at this point. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo I just referred to the turn signal on a car as “a directional” and my wife is shaking her head that “no one calls it that.” npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @nprofile…j074 track four brought me to tears the first time I listened to it — since I was friends with two of the people he's singing about (which is surreal). npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo How magical is my wife? Well, for Mother’s Day she worked all morning on a free flower stand for the neighborhood. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo I love Kate. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo The internet we love still exists. You just need to look for it. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @nprofile…wgw9 @nprofile…mv7t it went for a lot more than I thought it would — we’ll find you one, Doug! npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @nprofile…wgw9 Down the street (relatively) from me, let me know if you need a wingman. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo No technology is more annoying and pervasive that simply didn’t exist when I was a kid… than powered leaf blowers. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @nprofile…ee4l Telling you it’s one thing that it isn’t? npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Showing an image editor where the pallets are glassy over the area you might need to edit is mind boggling to me — like “what if I have to edit under there” — well, move it around, create more work for yourself. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo It’s now more illegible than ever before. It blurs the lines between hardware and software, and blurs the line on everything you are trying to read. It’s not built for anyone with any sort of vision problems (like simply needing glasses) or anyone who is easily distracted by shiny things. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Me, an independent publisher of books and zines. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo I can’t be the only person who sees this and thinks “Why is Johnny Ive coming to the Aladdin Theater? And what is he so seemingly angry about?” npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @nprofile…ee4l Or, just… copy the photo, man, have both automatically and label one “original.” npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo 1a. Markup is a common-enough item that it should be at the top-level, not hidden behind an awkward “more” circle menu. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Thinking about branding and meaninglessness. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo These should be behind the counter and they should have to check Id for them and then also a photo of me printed out that says “do not serve.” npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Sometimes instead of blogging (or seeing a therapist) I just text @nprofile…ee4l. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo I am continually fooled by the “Connect with So and So” emails from LinkedIn. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Sometimes you try out a front-end technology just because you see @nprofile…pgtd tweeting about it. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @npub1238…g63g But like what US cities, Seattle doesn’t. SF the mountains take longer…. I don’t think there’s any east coast ones? I’ve thought about it because I always think about where we could move and still have it all. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @npub1238…g63g Alas, no. I miss-used a trademark in my earlier Tweet™️. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Glad to see this guy got work as a band-aid, because it was really rough going for him when it came to putting color on paper. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo I buy them not because I might win money, but because I am an appreciator of art. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo That Apple doesn’t realize how dirty and gross OpenAI is to a lot of folks (artists, writers — two of big groups that made Apple who they are today) is just crazy to me. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo The semantic on device stuff is rad, the generative image stuff is gross. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @npub1238…g63g I honestly had no idea it was an option. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo I accidentally hit Command T in iTunes and now I’m high as a kite. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @npub1238…g63g No plates to me was amazing. Like just don’t need it. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo Portland friends, stuff is going DOWN at the Lloyd Center. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo If your online ordering system can’t support ½ cheese, ½ pepperoni, then you need a new ordering system. npub1542cwmjurc4e2y4ztx65lfcxzjl9vz4l49fe3wu0v5j67y6gm7tsp7vxuk Pat Castaldo @npub1238…g63g Yes!
