Joe Cieplinski

Apple, pretty please, with a cherry on top, can I swap the Sports tab for a Puzzles tab in the News+ app?

At least I was able to make a Home Screen Shortcut.

Congrats to the Pixelmator team. Well deserved. Looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.

Stack of Pluots. Black and White

Two tall buildings with fog seeping between them. Black and White.

San Francisco Bay. Thick clouds. Giant industrial cranes.

Balanced Rock. Large boulder. Clear sky. Black and White.

Group of Big Horn Sheep sitting in the long grass. Black and White.

Besr Lake. Mountains in the distance.

Bonneville Salt Flats. Mountains in the distance. Rocks in the foreground.

Light shining through glass ceiling panels with steel beams. Black and White

I will have more to say later when I do a more formal launch, but for those of you who like to make the occasional cocktail (or N/A drink) at home, and want some way to keep track of your recipes, I made a thing.

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iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS native.

(And yes, there will be a Mac version as well. I just don’t think it’s ready yet.)

Sleeping cat on porch. Sign reads "Beware of Cat". Black and White

I was impressed with ChatGPT’s ability to write me an AppStore description for a new app. Until I realized it was using “dumb” quotes.

I mean, come on. Get the easy part right, nerds.

As one might expect, I have thoughts about Vision Pro.

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Sucks about Castro. It’s been my podcast client of choice for well over a decade.

Yesterday I had to migrate over to Apple’s native Podcasts client. It’s going to take a while to get the whole Queue and Inbox model out of my head. I just hate how every other client manages the basic act of teeing up episodes.

Kudos to the team who built Castro. I know a lot has happened in recent years. But I still think of it as one of the all-time great indie apps.

Random person at the coffee shop handing out treat bags for Halloween. 🎃 Well done.

There’s hope for humanity yet.

Landscape of clouded sky, mountains, and a grass prairie.

Black and White statue of figure with stars looking up at clouded sky. Water spewing from statue.

Night time lit building with dual towers.

Three levels of books with person in middle layer. Black and white.

Stone sculpture of a baby seal. Black and White

Looking up at the corner of a museum building.

Reindeer with large antlers

Clock tower in Sweden against blue day sky.

Small bird on a wooden table