Author: aoconnor

Hello again. Welcome to another addition of Things I Thought Were Cool This Week. Let’s get into it. Threads If you exist in the tech space you simply could not avoid the news around Meta launching their Twitter competitor, Threads. I already wrote a bit about it and why I’m not terribly excited. I’m actually … Continue reading “Things I Thought Were Cool This Week – 7/9/2023 Edition”

Meta launched their Twitter competitor today. It’s called Threads. It’s not a thread I’m going to pull on in the short term. A couple of disclaimers before my rant. In the year we make contact…2023…how does any service launch without a web experience. If you go to the main Threads site, you get nothing but … Continue reading “Not Touching Threads”

David Pierce at the Verge posted an interesting opinion piece titled “So where are we all supposed to go now”. In the article, which I highly encourage you to read, David discusses how changes in places like Twitter and Reddit have opened a gap in where people spend their time online. He states “It’s the … Continue reading “A Response To David Pierce’s “So Where Are We All Supposed to go Now”.”

Are you on Mastodon and want a similar Tweetdeck-like layout? You can actually do that. When you log in, hit the settings gear Now under appearance, enable advanced web interface. That should give you multiple columns of feeds. Pretty slick!

My dad showed me a weird “update” to the laundry app in his building. Instead of the countdown timer going all the way to zero, like it had been doing, it now switches to a “<5 minutes” message. I thought perhaps this would be to allow some room for washers taking longer than the expected … Continue reading “The Curious Case of Countdown Timers”

Hi everyone. I missed last week. I don’t know…just didn’t have the motivation. Cool things happened, I just couldn’t sit down and write about them. As such, I’ll try to include some items from the past 2 weeks as a catch-up. Ranked Slayer in Halo Infinite. Ranked Slayer was my bread and butter growing up. … Continue reading “Things I Thought Were Cool This Week – 7/2/2023 Edition”

Welcome back to the second edition of Things I Thought Were Cool This Week. A weekly blog posts of things I learned this week that I thought were cool. Spotify Blend A friend sent an invite for me to match him on Spotify Blend. This feature has been on Spotify for 2 years now but … Continue reading “Things I Thought Were Cool This Week – 6/18/2023 Edition”

I’m going to try a new thing. I want to start sharing cool things I find throughout the week, and I’ll drop them in a blog post on Sundays. Since I came up with this idea today, the first edition here might be a little weak but over time I hope to come up with … Continue reading “Things I Thought Were Cool This Week – 6/11/2023 Edition”

This Pride month, a trend has developed that is driving me insane. There is a response to almost any LBTQ+ topic that goes something like “Just leave kids alone”. I’ve seen it too much. It’s silly, it’s harmful, it’s (usually) just a smokescreen. Take this report from NBC News, and you’ll see the trend I’m … Continue reading “Actually Protecting Kids”

I was inspired by this post from Chris Coyer, What Works From You. There was a line that was remarkable simple but it really struck a chord with me. “That fella’s very honest approach of we do what works for us is a nice sentiment. While perhaps easier said than done, I like how it … Continue reading “What Works For You – Personal Edition”