Went on a wonderful guided tour of Cartagena today. But then I overheard someone griping about it. There is always someone who is just a bit too grumpy to appreciate that actually everything is amazing. So much history here. Beautiful city.

This is a fun ranking system for Apple products. I voted on a bunch. But in the results, how can the original Macintosh not be permanently in the top few spots?

Carpet patterns.

Over the weekend I released another update to Inkwell for Mac. It improves a few things with Reading Recap, fixing bugs too.

I thought it was fine that they left Tom Bombadil out of The Lord of the Rings movies, but great to hear that Stephen Colbert’s script will give more attention to those early chapters of Fellowship. Could be fun.

Trying to practice my Spanish, I repeat phrases like “con leche de almendra” in my head as I walk to the coffee shop… But then they speak in English anyway. One of these days I will learn the language for real. Need to ramp up my Duolingo time.

Catching up on this news from Mark Gurman about the upcoming Siri redesign, with a dedicated app and more conversational interface:

The app’s main interface will display prior conversations in either a list or a grid of rounded rectangles with text previews. Users can pin favorite chats, save older conversations, search across interactions and start new chats via a prominent plus button.

This all sounds pretty reasonable.

Hello from Spain! Just arrived and found a nice little coffee shop in Cádiz. How did I get here…? I recorded a new episode of Timetable to share the first part of my trip. 🇪🇸

Compared the transcript from Apple Podcasts with the transcript we generate in Micro.blog using GPT. They’re both good, but ours is nearly flawless, while Apple Podcasts has a few minor mistakes.

It’s great that apps have transcripts. I still want to control this and have my own (editable) copy.

This looks like a great update to the Post Stats plug-in. Thanks @amit!