Have the band Rush on the brain, lately. They’ve been showing up in my TikTok feed of late because of Anika Nilles. I tend to enjoy watching videos posted by drummers. I’ve never had a kit but have always wanted one. Nevertheless, I find it joyful that two out of the original trio are alive and well and touring. Anika isn’t Neil Peart, but she does a great job of playing the parts he composed, so the songs sound like you need them to sound.

I had the privilege of seeing Rush play once in the 1990’s, in Jacksonville, Florida. They play note-perfect. So seeing Anika play note-perfect was no surprise. It warms my heart, honestly.

Pretty happy Notes got any attention at all. 9to5Mac has a brief article describing changes (so far) that iOS and iPadOS 27 will bring to Apple Notes, including dividers and additional ability to handle markdown.

I’d still love to see something like HTML Anchor Tags, and I’d love it if mobile Notes apps received the ability to center text, like the desktop app can.

I’m using a modified Forever✱Notes scheme and would love to see just a few more things. I’m not against migrating out into another toolset, but it’s so close and I don’t want another subscription.

It does suck when Apple “obsoletes” your device, especially when you love the shiny new things. But I have a Series 4 Apple Watch that I bought when that was the current device. It still does everything I bought it for and that I use it for. It even retains a feature the SE3 doesn’t doesn’t have. I figure it’s a watch, and I’m going to see if I can get it to last for a decade—unless or until iPhone OS won’t talk to it, or the battery gives out. Whichever comes first.

TIL I am older than the floppy disk. IBM first started producing the 8-inch 80KB floppy in 1971. The patent was granted June 6, 1972.

#ToBeFair, IBM’s Project Minnow, which begat the floppy and its counterpart drive mechanism, was begun in 1967. This predates me slightly.

/Tom’s Hardware

I’ve realized, with a certain amount of emotional pain, that a majority of pop-culture music and movie references that I pepper into work conversations are from the 20th century. Some Exceptions: Family Guy, Letterkenny/Shoresy, TikTok

#EmotionalDamage #ToBeFair

This probably applies to a vanishingly small audience, but I have noted that two different T2 i5 Intel MacBooks Pro, getting the development updates for MacOS 15.7.x (yes, still—I assume anything other than the occasional security update will end when 27.0 is released) require the SMC reset process.

I’d particularly like to thank @patrickrhone for helping me to check my work and use the actual SMC Reset process, versus the process I was using before our conversation, which applied to previous generations, but not this generation.

Also I’m excited for WWDC. I use an M3 Mac at work and M1/M2 iPads, so I expect I’ll be able to update all of those to the next OS.

Remembering today my great uncle, who was killed by a German sniper in The Battle of The Bulge during World War 2. I carry his given name.

Bluetooth could connect to the device you expect it to. But will it, unless you manually intercede?

Wondering if I have fallen down the rabbit hole and drunk a potion that I cannot recall. Because autocorrect just changed a word (that I probably misspelled) in an SMS message to “hatter”. Where is Lewis Carroll and why has he done this?