Notices by James Thomson (jamesthomson@mastodon.social), page 2

Is there a better way to start the day?

@WarnerCrocker Glad to hear, thank you!

Thursday: Finally gets Vision Pro
Monday: Is diagnosed with early-stage cataracts

The vertical alignment of this text bothers me every time my watch gets unlocked.

Well this is fun! I finally got my Apple Vision Pro in Glasgow, but it turns out it's not actually _my_ Apple Vision Pro.

It's in the right box, but it's a 256GB model, not a 512GB, and the serial number of the device doesn't match my order. I have to assume that the store in San Francisco mixed up devices when they were packing them. And somebody in SF got a free upgrade to a 512GB one.

I suspect they would say “just bring it back”, but that's kinda hard now that I'm 5,000 miles away. Fuck.

“Snooze all suggested posts for 30 days" has such "I'm sorry you were offended” energy.

Today the internet has brought me a thread of people on Twitter complaining about PCalc being featured on the Vision Pro store:

https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/1757361280732606603

Going to rejoin Apple, work my way into the Photos team, add a top level button to rotate a photo, then quit the next day knowing I have improved the lives of billions.

@thomasfuchs Some of the trig functions were originally based on code in a C64 programming book, so it's kind of true :)

I am definitely running out of space on my pin board.

We can go further.

One thing people many are discovering with the Vision Pro:

Eyes are weird.

Sounds like there will be more Vision Pro apps on day one than iPhone apps on day one.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/01/new-vision-pro-apps/

This seems like a pledge amount made just for me, @Iconfactory!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

Reasonably acceptable for 51.

Happy 40th birthday, Macintosh!

To make it about me for a second, the fact that PCalc is 31 years old too is just wild, because it means I’ve been doing all this for a not insignificant chunk of the Mac’s entire existence.

It definitely felt to me like I came late to the Mac, because I didn’t use one until 1990, but in reality it was only 6 years old when I bought a Mac Classic.

Not to mention, I was working at Apple itself when the Mac was only 12.

Now somehow, it’s 40? How does that work?

The true visionOS experience.

When I hear people refer to the Apple Vision Pro as “AVP”.

Since it's Apple Vision Pro day, I've been playing with a layered visionOS icon for PCalc.

@bbaugh @thomasfuchs Actually, how does this work? Seems like it would be a good addition!