🫣 Already Q4?! - 🥫 #26
Yeah, already Q4. 😱😱😱.
Highlights of the month
🫣 Tried to use iOS 17’s new “Screen Distance” feature. Gave up after a week, too annoying.
Interesting discoveries
Another great visualization story on haze by The Straits Times. 😶🌫️
Someone made Flappy Bird inside MacOS Finder 🤯🤯🤯
These “Isometric Geological Diagrams” are really cool. 👾
This thread on /r/singapore had me laughing so much: “Cyclists riding in middle lane confront taxi driver in middle of Middle Road” 😂
Another good laugh: “People always ask Why, but never How the chicken crossed the road” 🐓
Story Time
I’ve been looking for a nice case for my AirPods Pro (2nd gen, not USB-C) for some time, since last year. There’s a lot of them online, but none are really optimized for this specific model, which has extra holes for speakers and lanyard. Some companies made a few “optimized” ones but they are…either boring-looking (professional-kind-of case) or super rugged (protected against all forms of physical damage).
My requirement was to get a (cheap) fun cute decorational case, without the powerful damage protection. I’ve never dropped the case at all, but I sometimes accidentally drop the buds instead, due to the irregular shapes 😂. Also, no point protecting a case with another case right? 🤷♂️
After 1 whole year of waiting, I finally settled on this:
For those interested, sellers: Shopee, Amazon
Neat bookmarks
The Nonvisual Website — a site that can only be easily accessed with a screen reader 🙈
Build a Better Mobile Input — make web forms easier on mobile devices 📲
selectors.info — CSS Selectors/Combinators Classifier 🕵️
Rams Palette — Colours taken from Dieter Rams legendary product collection for Braun 🎨
Classnames — inspiration for naming things 🤩
Footer.design — the only footer gallery on earth 👣
Dark.design — best hand-picked dark themed websites on the internet 😎