It's film_girl, but on Mastodon. I work in DevRel at GitHub, I’m a podcaster, a journalist turned developer and someone obsessed with tech, OSS, and pop culture. You may know me from places like Google DeepMind or Microsoft or as that annoying Apple fangirl on tech podcasts.
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Last Notes npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Everyone in NYC, stay safe! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Vacation cannot come fast enough. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren An update on today’s ER visit for those worried. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/540/175/029/029/196/original/eda93bfba973a121.mp4 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren New work laptop just dropped and the stickers are already generational https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/461/099/971/116/044/original/bd7d0ed9796627dd.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m not promising I’ll wear them all day, but I did bring the Windows XP Crocs to #GitHubUniverse as always, @nprofile…e6x2 is to blame! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/458/155/266/466/679/original/f6c7c7bb8c5a626d.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren YOU MADE A DEAL WITH THIS DEVIL TURNS OUT MY DICK'S BIGGER!!!! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren So excited to go to both #Oasis shows in Pasadena this weekend, or as I’m calling it “the British Eras Tour but more boys will be there!” npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren HACK THE PLANET!!! Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/006/086/585/784/008/original/ef05f2679f0ef7ec.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Behold the billionth repository created on GitHub. It’s absolutely perfect. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/666/857/240/356/638/original/04c7fda269d470a0.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren TAYLOR SWIFT GOT HER MASTERS BACK!!! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Amazing column from Dan. Huge loss for Macworld and its readers, but he goes out with a fucking bang! https://zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/114426749582802527 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren You want to know why visionOS has no devs/apps? A big reason that I’ve long argued is that Apple abused the goodwill it had wirh its developer community over capricious IAP/linking strategies. Apple assumed devs needed Apple more than Apple needed devs. And for the iPhone, maybe that’s true. But for new platforms, it isn’t. When you actively kick someone every time they come to hang out, don’t be surprised when they don’t come to your house anymore. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I rarely am in favor of discouraging indie apps from proliferating but here is a truth: Apple needs to Sherlock apps like Bartender or Ice in the next version of macOS. It’s been 5 years since we’ve had the notch on Macs and not having a native way to manage menu bar icons is beyond ridiculous. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @nprofile…66kr I think the interesting thing here is a) BenQ will likely sell this for less than $1299 on sale too, so if you get in the $1000 range, that’s still compelling for a TB display. And B) many of us would like to use our monitor with a non-Mac source. This can do it. I think I’ll wait for the 6K Asus to compare & I think the $800 non-TB Asus might be a better value if you’re not doing Studio Display, but as someone who wants another 5K but refuses to buy another SD before the refresh, I get it npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @nprofile…fv4z @nprofile…0z2e I mean, I agree. But you can argue you can’t get to JS without HTML. But as much as I love HTML more than JavaScript, I’d agree it is the most important. But HTML is way up there for me. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from my family to yours! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/710/483/207/787/074/original/53548a8d46ea388e.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/710/483/406/839/241/original/47cbc9a289c6d743.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/710/483/928/928/782/original/3c5433d089bf460d.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren There is no restaurant chain more pathetic and terrible than Krystal. Imagine White Castle but somehow shittier. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I don’t know what day it is but I’m here!!! #tserastourvancouver https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/620/446/589/538/620/original/25593cb9e8c9343c.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Back at the airport, a mere 17 hours after I was last here! Next stop, Vancouver! #ErasTourVancouver final show let’s go!! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Fuck it. Doing Eras Tour. About to lose WiFi for 10 hours. Plz don’t explode, Canada! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Thanks to @@nprofile…9d9k, I was caught up with the days news despite being offline for like 14 hours. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/599/906/740/209/310/original/657a02ef5a8d47e6.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren 10:00am - My mom tells me my old passport was found in the parking lot of the doctors office. Of course, this is now too late as I’ve already had my old one canceled. RIP good photo 10:20am - I learn South Korea has declared Martial Law npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Anyway, if you thought you had a bad day, please feel better it wasn’t mine Remarkably, I haven’t screamed or cried once. All you can do is laugh. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren At this point, I’m still planning on going to Seoul unless there is some sort of grounding. Fun fact: Delta’s reservation line (for Diamond Medallions anyway) is not working. At all. Like the lines are down. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren 12:00am - I make an appointment at the Atlanta Passport Agency for 8:30am. Shoutout to my mom who had a copy of my birth certificate, as my other copy was 3000 miles away in Seattle 8:00am - I’m informed I can’t use my good passport photo that I got 4 months ago and have to get a shitty one at CVS npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren 8:15am - my mom (who has driven 45 minutes in traffic to the doctor’s office where I was on Sunday) reports they do not have my passport. I proceed to get a new one 9:00am - I am told I’ll have a new passport at 2:30pm with much worse photo than before 9:05am - I rebook my flight for tomorrow am npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The last 14 hours: a thread 🧵 8:15pm I arrive at the airport for a flight to Seoul. I realize I don’t have my passport. It is not at my parents house and I’m unable to find it. I’ve lost it in the last 24 hours. I start to research emergency passport options. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This is the most butt-hurt platform. Someone yells at me for posting a link to something paywalled (and sorry, it’s skill issue if you can’t get past it or find an alternative) and when I point out that I don’t work for them, they throw a temper tantrum and block. Block whoever you want. But I don’t work for you. I don’t answer to any of you. I’ll post links to where I want to post. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The heater upstairs at my parents house just went out. It’s currently 29 degrees outside. So we’re improvising. Behold my bed for the evening. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/575/872/841/862/102/original/ebf678bdadc5beed.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Someone plz drop me the latest Thanksgiving emoji pasta so I can scandalize my extended family who already think I’m a heathen. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Amazing new error message at ATL https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/540/955/505/239/999/original/b1f23b88a326d5bc.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren After less than 36 hours, I’m back at the airport but this time things seem to be going much more smoothly. Fingers crossed! Also, I got carded in the Sky Club, which is always a sign of a great day. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Literally spent my whole life watching Mike Tyson fight on TV. Can’t believe I’m going to watch him throw a fight to that annoying kid from Vine. The internet is amazing. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I am absolutely going to be glued to watch the Jake Paul/Mike Tyson fight tonight (I’m already watching the undercard on Netflix in back of my Uber) and I make no apologies for it. Content is content! Fuck it! Let the assholes bash each other into more brain damage! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The guy sitting next to me on my flight is watching Fox News silently on his IFE and I’m sorry but I’m a very petty person so I’m watching MSNBC (even tho I’m over their whole thing), also silently, just to balance things out. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren It’s always fun to be at the airport on your birthday to assess if any of the people checking your ID will notice it is in fact your birthday. So far 0 for 3 but everyone was very nice so that honestly is more important. But also, yes: I am spending my birthday in the Sky Club! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/471/643/414/252/171/original/4806ebe6cbd77044.jpg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Once again: we’re allowed to be fucking heartbroken and angry. I’m not saying that we can be mad forever. I’m saying we’re allowed to be angry and sad today. All this “now it’s time to work” bullshit is just that. Bushit. People are allowed to feel what they feel. And be fucking honest: the work wasn’t enough this time. At all. At all. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Note to future self: when you karaoke too hard and decide you can’t take your 1:30pm flight, plz reconsider rebooking for 5:30am the following morning. As it means leaving for the airport at 3:55am. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren My Waymo is celebrating Halloween. We got in and the Exorcist theme started playing. Iconic. So cool. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/377/227/951/061/021/original/6338c1ea57bdc7b5.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren It happened. The one rose gold item I don’t covet. In fact, you couldn’t pay me $100,000 to wear this. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/222/836/986/486/554/original/fd475f6e081f451f.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1p9e…qcnv thank you! They are so cool! https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/171/251/343/836/890/original/50d85f636c84f708.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren My childhood in two photos. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/171/063/857/069/551/original/97d475fa4178046c.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/171/063/981/354/956/original/68ec49975a572730.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1na9…nagt sigh. Yes. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m posting skeets and toots at the same time. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I understand that this is going to upset people but bffr, if you have 270 active users, that isn’t sustainable. I understand why Mozilla experimented with this. I equally understand why this isn’t something they could do in perpetuity with this low of a number of users. https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1tgt…68dp this is why I need to see it in person! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Waiting on ordering my watch until I can see the colors in person (and still seriously considering the Hermes option, I’m sorry I’m the worst) but I got my phone and AirPods Max. And a $50 clear case I’ll despise and use twice before going naked and a 2m MagSafe. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/130/230/940/497/665/original/8e65d55e1e5f46ef.jpeg npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1ev7…u0fp that’s good feedback and is something I genuinely worry about. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub15ml…2w4s I hate that you made me look this up because now I want a $1900 watch npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m very conflicted about what Apple Watch I’m going to buy. I have been getting the stainless steel watched since 2015 but I’m sort of interested in the rose gold aluminum. But will I regret that? Should I just get the “gold” titanium. I’m conflicted! Also the Modern Buckle bands FineWoven and not gold hardware matched, which is so annoying. I don’t know what to buy! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This story is so insane. I can sort of understand how someone could get mistakenly separated from a group (but also, you’re on a mountain. Count better!) but to wait like 8 hours before calling search and rescue (after abandoning your own search) is just really terrible. https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5093882/colorado-hiker-left-behind-office-retreat-mountain npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Thanks @npub1lsl…9c2x for the push to make this art https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/964/215/597/414/571/original/83e877e3b3d24b8b.png npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Ngl, this is the greatest image I’ve ever seen created from an AI prompt. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/963/303/454/531/974/original/0c7e106298327e0b.png npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren So I just checked out of curiosity — and forgive me if this has already been litigated like 24 hours ago — but Patreon doesn’t even use Apple’s IAP as the payment processor. If you sign-up for a creator inside the app it defaults to whatever your existing payment method is. So for me, that’s PayPal. So that makes the 30% commission even less defensible. Like I’m genuinely laughing at this now. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub16xj…etam fully agree npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I think the only way Apple or any App Store should take a cut from these types of apps are if they are professing the payments and then you can charge your 5% or whatever. I feel the same way about Apple trying to take a cut of people who buy ads on Facebook in the Facebook app. But the real solution, I think, is for Patreon and Substack to just leave the App Store. Fuck it. Leaving is the only way to maybe win. Yes, that might make it worse for your users. Fuck it. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112956211367383557 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren People like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave. Until/unless they fully neuter macOS, I’m here for life. And I’ll realistically never use Android. But the next generation of users might use an iPhone, but they also rely on the web and services from other companies. They use Chromebooks. They don’t have a reason to “root” for Apple the same way I did as a kid. And that’s how platforms change and ecosystems fall off. https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/112955398796903001 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The richest company in the world (congrats guys, you’re back on top) being fucking rent-seeking pieces of shit isn’t going to earn your precious services more $$$, it’s just going to convince a whole new generation of users to avoid the App Store for all payments and have a distaste towards your brand. https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/112949682879529175 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Bffr Apple, this is so anti-user for absolutely no reason. MacOS is still the best desktop operating system but Apple seems content on trying to change that every year as they make decisions that are bad and also diametrically opposed to anything a pro user would actually want. https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/06/macos-sequoia-screen-recording-privacy-prompt/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub139l…d5ux that’s horrifying npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Garden State hit theaters 20 years ago today https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/867/634/277/587/813/original/f2fdb82db8bb993d.mp4 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren OK, I was already incensed by the CrowdStrike scenario but now I’m trying to fly to Atlanta for a family emergency and I can’t get on a flight to save my life that won’t take under 17 hours because Delta is completely screwed and every other airline is SOL. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren When you ask me what is the greatest TV show of all-time, the easy response is to say, "The Wire." And I mostly agree with that. But I always add the caveat of "Homicide: Life on the Street" because to me, you don't get "The Wire" without Homicide. You just don't. Anyway, after many years of delays and music license stuff, Homicide is coming to Peacock next month and in HD and 4K! This is fantastic news for all of us who have wanted to show our friends top tier television https://deadline.com/2024/07/homicide-life-on-the-street-stream-peacock-1236016316/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I posted this to Twitter and it doesn’t really apply to Mastodon b/c Mastodon (also true of Threads) but the sentiment remains true: The most reassuring thing about all of this for me is that finally FINALLY I’m seeing good memes on the timeline about the presumptive dem nominee! The Kamala memes have been getting good for a few weeks but are excellent today. I am serious when I say we need people to be inspired to shitpost if we want anyone to show up and vote. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Lmao. The Morning Show is already filming season 4. You know they are so mad to have missed this week. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren My unironic argument since 2010 has been that the new Citizen Kane is “The Social Network” and it just gets more true every passing year. https://werd.social/@ben/112801746884335530 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This is so bogus. UTM SE gets into the App Store after it was accepted into @npub1tgn…s68h’s Alt Store but iDOS 3 is still not allowed. Just bogus. https://litchie.com/2024/04/new-hope?updated npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I regret to inform you all that we are 13 days away from the 20th anniversary of Garden State’s US release. This is one of those anniversaries that makes me feel old. And I generally don’t feel old. But this one is going to get me. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I took a 3.5 year old to see Despicable Me 4 and came out to about 40 texts and was very confused about what what happening. No comment on the rest of it but DM4 is pretty cute. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I love to shitpost so I changed my Slack avatar at work. A colleague encouraged me to do it across my socials. So here we are! This is only for the week, provided I don't forget. Remind me if I forget lol npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Fantastic reporting from @npub17mh…66w8 on this whole sordid saga! https://sfba.social/@jank0/112751133885459712 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1kce…n98d genuinely npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Just had a genuinely amazing demo experience where my colleague and I discovered a brand-new alpha feature WHILE WE WERE DOING OUR DEMO and the audience got to see our genuine reaction and how it works. So cool. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1afm…5yz4 find a friend who works at Sonos! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1f2x…x4rc this is what I aim to find out! Stay tuned! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren PSA: Spotify doesn’t make it super clear, but you can downgrade from your Family Premium plan to Family Basic, which removes the audiobook stuff and saves $3 a month. I just did that since I pay for Audible. If Spotify actually offers hi-fi music, I might re-upgrade to the premium plan but I won’t pay $3 a month for audiobooks I didn’t listen to. https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-06-21/more-choice-for-us-subscribers/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren My friend Karissa wrote a terrific piece for Engadget looking into the unlikely way people actually get customer service from Facebook: they sue in small claims court https://www.engadget.com/how-small-claims-court-became-metas-customer-service-hotline-160224479.html?guccounter=1 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren In honor of Donald Sutherland, I encourage you all to watch the fantastic 1971 neo-noir film, “Klute.” It features an Oscar-winning performance from Jane Fonda (that she totally earned) and is the first of Pakula’s “paranoia trilogy” - but Sutherland’s understated performance is one of my favorites of his. https://letterboxd.com/film/klute/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This piece of shit has been terrorizing the outside of my building for months. The Times, somehow, deemed to write about it. Judgment or not, I expect nothing to change because Seattle is a terrible city run by incompetent people. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/seattle-belltown-hellcat-judgment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.000.Qz2U.YcNnC_1baSxe&smid=url-share npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I have missed #wwdc so much. So glad I came to hang this year with folks. Not to get overly sappy, but you nerds are my people. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Prediction: Apple is going to make Apple Intelligence a service. Apple Intelligence+ that they’ll charge $20 a month for enhanced features and whatnot. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Lol I love that Siri is now just a ChatGPT frontend. Honestly, an improvement. #wwdc24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Wait. Wait. Wait. We can record phone calls now?! #wwdc24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I cannot wait to use this image playground to make create copyrighted characters do terrible, terrible things. #wwdc24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Private cloud compute: so it’s a normal isolated cloud environment. Like that’s cool but that isn’t anywhere near as unique as it is being advertised unless I’m missing something huge. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Apple Intelligence. OK, now it’s time for the real keynote. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren RIP Soulver.app. The iPad calculator does look cool tho. I still wish we were getting a file manager but I guess now we mostly have all the default iPhone apps on the iPad. After 14 years. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The translate widget on Apple Watch looks really useful. Surprised that it didn’t exist before. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Ok this new color shit is hot. I cannot wait to make my iPhone Home Screen rose gold #wwdc24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m sorry to be such a Vision Pro hater but even adding more screens is not enough of a reason to spend $3500* minimum on one of these things. #WWDC24 * it’s really $4000 once you add in Apple Care. To say nothing of tax. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren It’s Sabrina’s summer. Period. https://youtu.be/cF1Na4AIecM?si=law6xDePShwZBPHB npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1cdf…g22t always! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1fnk…lqtx nice! When do you get into town? npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Where are all my #wwdc #wwdc24 people at? I’ll be in San Jose next week and would love to hang with anyone in town! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Re: the change in ownership of the Mac app Bartender (see last tweet and also this from MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/), I want to be clear that I do NOT blame the original owner Ben for selling his app or for choosing to make or not make a statement. A statement would have been great but honestly, he doesn't owe me that. He doesn't owe any of you that either. The new owners, however, *do* owe their existing and potential new customers a little more transparency than they've offered so far. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Gawker Media Company -> Gizmodo Media Company -> G/O Media -> / Media? Or maybe they can rename it based on the assets they haven't sold yet where the staff doesn't actively hate management like *checks notes* Quartz? Should they just rename themselves Quartz but with an asterisk so no one confuses it with the original Quartz? https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112559953065962054 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m from Atlanta, so I won’t drink a Pepsi product unless forced. We’re a Coca-Cola family. But Diet Dr. Pepper is the best diet soda that exists. I absolutely drink more Diet Coke ounce for ounce, even tho it is worse, just b/c it’s often on sale more but DP is the real shit. Glad to see it get its due. https://www.wsj.com/business/dr-pepper-soda-sales-92b292c3?st=ty1xr5af1rgj04d&reflink=article_copyURL_share npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1nr8…n997 I *think* I do, but honestly, you’re right. It doesn’t matter! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1nr8…n997 thank you! I’m still proud of that one too!