What’s New in Shortcuts - Issue 55
Thank you to Matthew Cassinelli for giving my Post to Mastodon shortcut a nod in the New Year’s Eve edition of his “What’s New in Shortcuts” newsletter. If you’re interested in Shortcuts or macOS/iPadOS/iOS automation, this is a newsletter worth checking out.
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My Top 5 Gadgets of 2022
In the last hours of 2022, I wanted to take a quick moment and celebrate the gadgets that had the most impact on me this year. Steam Deck The Steam Deck is PC gaming rig that you can take anywhere. If there’s a better device for 40 year old fathers who like to play some games, I can’t imagine what it would be.
Read moreHow to Befriend Crows
Befriending crows is a wonderful thing. I have many crow friends at home and at work. They bring joy at unexpected moments and can rescue a miserable day even without shaking down the dust of snow that Robert Frost described. This thread is an updated version of one I posted at the bird site in July 2019.
Read morePost to Mastodon v2.2 - Bug Fixes and Setup Questions
Another update regarding my Post to Mastodon Apple Shortcut automation, which is now at version 2.2! Specifically, I’ve learned two things about Apple Shortcuts today: Their logic for input type sucks and is very buggy. You can set setup questions so people don’t have to edit the shortcut after they download it!
Read morePost to Mastodon v2 Shortcut - Image Support
Yesterday I released an Apple Shortcut (macOS, iOS, and iPadOS) that will allow you to quickly post to your Mastodon instance. As you might imagine, it received a little traction on Mastodon including the following feedback: A feature request already? Over the holidays?! I don’t have time to figure out…it’s done!
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Posting to Mastodon via Shortcuts
The best thing to come out of Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase (and then backing out of the purchase, and then purchase, and then massive layoffs, and allowing crazies back on Twitter, and whatever happened today) is that Mastodon has been so much fun! One extremely minor annoyance has been the lack of good Mastodon clients, and while TapBots is hard at work on that right now, it makes posting on Mastodon a little bit harder than it was on Twitter.
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