Huge turnout yesterday. Mostly young kids, but a few of us olds were in attendance too. There seems to be a little boom happening at one of the nearby schools.

Our next SF Yo-Yo Club is on July 11th at 826 Valencia from 2-5pm.

The coolest lazy Susan you’ll ever see 😎

I’m now ethically, morally and religiously obligated to buy 3 more throws…the stand demands it.

worked on the smoothness and now I can hit the trick cleaner

Been about 7 years since Radical Seas shuttered. Throwing a Satyr for nostalgia’s sake.

Full specs and colors revealed soon. Releasing 06.27.26.

Link via Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/1U9esWvTN0U9CXoaD0W4MK?si=q6Dq6352QN-VrqS9WdxIrQ

Been a huge fan of Search Engine since the Buckingham Palace pool episode.

I’ve had a real dry spell of podcasts over the last few months. Have you listened to anything you could not stop thinking about?? I love true crime, investigative journalism, interview based pods, anything really…

I’m (always) looking for podcast recommendations, but I’ve realised over the years that my taste is… annoyingly specific, so I thought I’d try describing it properly here.

I’ve been listening to podcasts since around 2012, back when podcasting didn’t really feel like the huge industry it is today. I’ve listened to literally every episode of This American Life, and like many people, Serial completely changed the way I thought about what audio storytelling could do.

Since then, I’ve listened to a huge amount of narrative and investigative podcasts, and I’ve realised that what I’m looking for is not necessarily true crime itself.

What I love most are long-form investigative stories where you can genuinely feel the journalist’s involvement in the reporting process.

I’m especially drawn to podcasts where the reporting itself becomes part of the narrative — where you can hear the journalist thinking through contradictions, changing their mind, chasing leads, building relationships with …

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I just finished listening to Your Own Backyard (big recommend) and it’s left me searching for other true crime podcasts of a similar feel.

I felt deeply impacted by the profound love and respect the podcast had of the missing victim, bringing her story to life and going into deep detail about her life, her loved ones, and her community and how deeply people loved her.

I try to be really intentional about the true crime I digest, I am not interested in sensationalized podcasts that are doing their research for their own personal benefit. I am not interested in casual “cocktail scary story time”, I want to be able to envision the victim and their life and respect given to the person and their loved ones over the tragedies that have happened. I want to remember these people and their lives, even if I did not know them. I want to know them, miss them, and remember them, if that makes sense.

I am also interested in the supernatural and history. …

I often find myself mimicking the behavior of people I’m around for a long time, including podcast hosts. Knowing this about myself and wanting to improve, I think listening to a podcast with a really friendly and lovable personality at the forefront would help me behave more like the person I want to be. I’d like to be someone welcoming that anyone feels like they can open up to, while also being interesting to listen to. Just a generally nice person.

Maybe the podcast host someone who frequently does interviews (although that doesn’t have to be their main thing, or a thing at all, as I’d like to listen to banter among people who are familiar with one another, too). Could be any gender, idc.

If this is too broad of a category, here are some other things I might find interesting:

- things relating to science or academic disciplines

- comedy

- horror (I’ve really been enjoying creepcast)

Any recommendations?

I love history and learning about stuff like MK Ultra or the Tuskegee Incident or other weird government stuff, HOWEVER, I am not a fan of wild conspiracy theories like a new world order or lizard people or alien mind control. I think there’s enough shit governments have done without insane conspiracies.

Things like SNAFU: Medburg kinda helped scratch that itch, or Behind The Bastards episodes about certain people. But does anyone have any dedicated podcasts about stuff like this that doesn’t reach into heavy conspiracy theory?

Big ask! I am already gifting her Eve Babitz. But she is 24 and just got engaged to her 37 year old boyfriend who she started dating at 21 🥺 Everyone in the family can tell he doesn’t like her. She initially said she didn’t want kids, but he literally told her “No, you are having my children.” The only people in her life are his mid/late 30s friends. He just had a huge (emotionally abusive) freak out about her going out to get drinks with her brother.

Please give me book recs where a smart woman is having fun being single or dating in her 20s. (Joan Didion, Ottessa Moshfegh are some authors she likes)

I don’t mean just stories where homosexuality is secondary to main plot/theme, I mean a novel someone could plausibly read and not pick up on the gay undertones.

e.g.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Brideshead Revisited

A Separate Peace

I’ve been having a lot of fun reading books where the narrator is entirely unlikable, unreliable, and rather sneaky. The last 3 books that I’ve read (that fit this bill) are Yellowface, Yesteryear, and The Silent Patient. Not all *great* books, but I had a great time stunned at the audacity of the narrators.

Please, help me ragebait myself, recommend me some tales where you feel like you’re hate reading because the narrator is such an awful human.

Thrillers, mysteries, sci-fi/fantasy, pretty much anything!

Edit: I do not mean audiobook narrators y’all, I mean like the narrator of a story told in the first person.

I’m currently about to finish reading Demon Copperhead. I’m generally a sci-fi or fantasy guy who steers clear of reading about real-world troubles, so just reading the book description did absolutely nothing for me. Still, I figured I’d give it a try since it gets recommended so often. I’m blown away with how much I’m loving it and how well-written all of the characters are.

So, what book gave you this experience, of not having any interest due to the description, genre, or something else, but you absolutely loved it and understood why it gets recommended so often once you gave it a read? Why were you hesitant to read it and what made you enjoy it so much? I’d love to find a few more to read that I’ve been holding off on.

I’ve tagged classics on here, but it doesn’t need to be something that is widely considered a classic by the average literature snob. This isn’t a “this book is a modern-day classic” discussion though, so I do ask that the books are from the early 2000s and older-ish.

I’m also aware that the reading lists/curriculum varied based on location, time, whether the person was in honors classes, and so on, so there’s a chance someone will say something that was part of someone else’s homework. That’s perfectly fine with me.

What I’m expecting from this (just because someone always asks) is probably mostly books from POC or books that made it to a banned list before they could make it into the schools. Due to it being a reference to school curriculum I imagine this list will consist of more literary or historical fiction, though truly I’d imagine only romance is off the table entirely.

This question really is open to your …

And I don’t mean that she’s a mother who is trying her best in difficult circumstances but fails sometimes. I don’t mean a mother who is a terrible person but will ultimately always be there for her children.

I mean a protagonist who is actually a terrible mother, explicitly written as such. It can be for any number of reasons: her own traumas, being made to have children despite not wanting them, anything really. It doesn’t even have to be the focus of the story, just one aspect of it.

I came to the realization recently that one characteristic we absolutely refuse to accept in fictional women is the sin of being a bad mother. So, I am curious if there are any stories that dare to present the reader with such a thing.

Thank you in advance!

EDIT: Guys.. please. I want the PROTAGONIST to be the mom. There’s plenty of terrible mothers in fiction from other POVs. I want her POV.

Title and thanks, not twice okay, 3 or more

Do yall have a game where you can just turn on and just vibe. What are your go to games for a good time without any worries just turn on and play.

I’m looking for a game that will basically consume every waking hour I have for the next few months and I want to feel GOOD about it afterward. Just that deep satisfaction of experiencing a well made game that rewards your time investment.

ARPGs used to be that thing for me. I put like 800 or so hours into Path of Exile across a few leagues and like another 600 into Last Epoch and there’s nothing quite like opening your character screen after weeks of grinding and just… staring at your build. Everything skilled perfectly, every slot farmed to near perfection, your character is a majestic juggernaut… that feeling is unmatched. 

Same with WoW back when I played it, log off after a raid night and your characters would all be standing there in full tier gear looking like absolute units and it felt like you’d actually accomplished something reven though objectively you were just clicking at best a 3-4 button rotation for a couple of hours.

So I’m …

This is a little specific so let me explain. I love the idea of having an open world game that features a big, super important, landmark to go to. Ideally at any time, as long as you work toward it. And if there was some sort of mystery to what it is and why it’s important, that would be perfect. Let me list some examples of what I’m talking about.

Elden Ring. There’s the Erdtree. It’s always there, no one ever shuts up about it, and getting there feels majestic.

Breath of the Wild. Hyrule Castle. It’s your end goal and ground zero of all the terrible things around, and guarded by terrifying piano robots.

Fallout: New Vegas. There’s two, actually. New Vegas itself and Hoover Dam. Standing at New Vegas feels like being at the center of the world, and everyone talks about how important Hoover Dam is, everything builds up to that.

Conan Exiles. The Forgotten City. It’s a huge chunk of the map, but incredibly hostile and barren. It’s also …

To be clear, I understand that to be able to go in every building would be impossible, but I do wish these kinds of games had a lot more memorable interior spaces.

Anything that might scratch that itch?

Hi there! As a big Zelda fan, I’d love to dive into games that are either clones of Zelda or spiritual successors.

Essentially, I’m looking for the best non-Zelda Zelda games. These can be either 2D or 3D, retro or modern.

They can be even slightly inspired by Zelda. For example, consider the classic “Beyond Good and Evil.” Heart containers and item collection? Check and check!

Thanks for your ideas. This should be interesting!

My brain is terrible at remembering irregular timelines. I could never remember when I last changed the AC filter, when I last gave the dog her flea pill, or when I last descaled the coffee machine.

I tried standard habit trackers, but they all want you to do things every single day. If you don’t, you break the streak. I just needed a simple system to tell me exactly how many days it had been since I last did a specific chore.

So, I built a completely hands-free tracking system.

Here is the setup:

• I bought a pack of cheap, blank NFC stickers off Amazon.
• I placed them strategically around the house: one inside the air filter grate, one on the dog’s medicine bottle, one on the watering can.
• I set up Apple Shortcuts to trigger a log whenever I tap my phone to a specific tag.

The missing piece was where to actually store this data. Apple Reminders is built for future to-dos, not past logs. A spreadsheet was too clunky.

I ended up building a dedicated iOS app called …

My new iOS27B1 action button shortcut

1. Flashlight if device locked
2. Ask LLM with safari webpage content if Safari is open
3. Refine text selection with LLM if some text is selected
4. Otherwise toggle orientation lock

Note : I tried to use the safari reader action but could not get it working without refetching the web page. Apple please allow this! This would be way better for LLM prompting.

Link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e6990e03b8904c039a1591da9ecb6116

The below shortcuts are necessary to run the action button shortcut

Ask LLM : https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/93ac5f7210d74e04a3b763ccf8754c72 Show text : https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1634a25b01ea487caeeb0fdc10db8c47 Safari to text : https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4ebf2e4512b04246a22ad44f5ae4f6a0 Improve text : https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6357fa80823b40e59d7e557a97a2f90e

Hey everyone,

I’ve been an iOS dev for about 11 years, but the thing that actually made me build my own app was having a kid.

When you’re holding a baby you never really have a free hand. Opening the calendar, tapping into the right day, checking what’s next… it was just too much for something I do 20 times a day. I kept thinking I just want to look at my phone and already see it.

Then I noticed iOS lets you change your wallpaper automatically with Shortcuts, and that was the idea. Put my schedule and to-dos straight on the lock screen so it’s always there.
So I made it. I think it was actually the first lock screen calendar app like this, and it somehow got to #3 overall on the Korean App Store.

A few things about it:
Customization: you can change the colors, fonts and use your own photo.
Natural language: you can just type “lunch with mom tomorrow at 1” and it makes the event.
Auto update: the wallpaper updates every day on its own. I …

UPDATE: FULL TUTORIAL HERE

Known bug as of 2026-06-19: Issue with saving files on devices not set to English

This is a shortcut that helps set up hybrid dark/clear icons.

Please note: This is in VERY early beta! Please tell me if something doesn’t work in the comments!

I plan to update this shortcut a lot. Please leave suggestions and issues in the comments

Tested on iOS 27, but it *should* work on iOS 26. Please let me know if something doesn’t work.

Credit to u/thornlingg for this post for inspiring this idea!

There are some serious limitations right now (PLEASE READ!)

• does not support icons on the dock yet.
• Does not work well with many icons due to the way the image processing works. It should work fine for icons that are colorful and are on a black solid or gradient background. If you have ideas for I can handle other icons, please tell me in the comments.
• Assumes you can fit exactly 24 icons (excluding the dock), which I think is true for all iPhones.
• Is very …

Hey everyone, here’s a megathread of everything new in the iOS 27 beta, currently on developer beta 1.

This is covering Apple features and community comments – no third-party apps for now, but feel free to start a thread in the comments.

Here’s the outline:

• Describe a shortcut
• Automations
  • Notification
  • Keyboard
• Storage
• Otherwise If
• New action groups
  • Lists
  • Text
  • VPN
  • Sharing
  • Accessibility
  • Messages
  • Photos
  • Mail
  • Reminders
  • Get What’s On Screen
  • Cloud Pro, Broad World Knowledge in Use Model
• More
  • Shortcuts Programming Language
• Feedback

Describe a shortcut

• Siri can add comments explaining its reasoning inside a natural language shortcut
• Asking Siri for info on “unknown actions” can reveal actual function

Automations

• iOS27 is a huge step forward for Shortcuts and Automation
• All of my Automations are gone and seem to now be Shortcuts (intentional change, now in Action Editor)
• Automations now sync across devices (because they are shortcuts now – but only enabled …