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I’m finally feeling the speed

Worlds is a few days away and I’m so excited! I’ve been grinding a lot so here there are some tricks I’ve been working on. (Also using a really good Skilladdicts new yoyo that will be available at worlds hehe)

Just got a head up from my manager that higher up are gonna be keeping an eye on me and try to fire me just because I play with my yoyo during down time

His podcast is obviously very successful and the guy is not terrible, but is not great either. He attracts great guests but most conversations are boring af (a few are good).

Why is he so successful?

Alex Goldman, one half of Reply All, has a new show (new to me, it began last year) and it’s very much in the vein of Reply All in tone, even down to music by Breakmaster Cylinder.

I love my Radiolab and Heavyweight. I listen to a few crime podcasts so I’m open to them but I’d rather keep it more informative and uplifting. Send me your favourites. I’ve got a lot of prairie to cross.

I want to start listening to podcasts during my commutes and workouts as i feel it will be more beneficial than music all the time.

Please let me know of any podcasts that will positively impact me: knowledge wise, economically, love and relationships, hard work

Really anything that will benefit me.

Thank you.

Not sure if anyone else here listens to What a Creep Podcast with Margo Donohue and Sonia Mansfield. Sonia just posted on Facebook that Margo has passed away. She did not share any other details, understandably. Sonia and Margo also co-hosted two movie podcasts called Book vs Movie and Dorking Out. Margo was also a writer and part-time fitness instructor.

I have been listening to What a Creep for years and this is a huge shock. Margo seemed like a wonderful person. My heart breaks for Margo’s friends and family and for Sonia.

EDIT: Book vs. Movie was co-hosted by Margo and another person also named Margo P, and not by Margo and Sonia. Apologies for the error. I haven’t listened to Book vs Movie yet.

I mostly listen to comedy podcasts, but I want to switch it up and learn something that could actually be useful in my day to day life. I’m interested in art, economy, and history and would prefer something in this category, although I’m also open to other suggestions. 

Fiction or Non-fiction. Any genre.

Hi! I’d like some recs for funny books, I have been stressing a lot and I’d love to get back into reading something that makes me laugh. Thank you in advance!

Edit: I appreciate all the recs!! I’ll be reading them and will lyk how much I loved them since I’m sure they’re all amazing. Thank you once again and keep em coming :))

I’m looking for books that resonate with quiet people. Not necessarily shy or reclusive — just the kind of readers who don’t rush to speak, who sit with things longer than others.

Books that don’t shout. Books with presence, not performance.

Something like Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, or The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. Maybe even poetry — Szymborska, Transtromer, that sort of tone.

I’m not avoiding intensity, just noise. I’d love stories that feel like company rather than plot.

If you’ve ever read a book and thought: “this doesn’t need to be louder to matter” — that’s what I’m hoping to find.

I’m in the mood for a book that really shifts perspective—something that made you think differently about life, people, or even yourself. Any recommendations?

Hi all! This might be too specific but I’m looking for books that are math adjacent. He recently read and loved “surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman!”, “the man who loved only numbers” and “Zero, the biography of a dangerous idea”. Right now he’s reading “ love triangle, the life-changing magic of trigonometry”

Is there anyone out there that could recommend me some more…?

Edit: wow I love this subreddit! I’ll pick out some for his bday and show him the rest after <3

Having a news story like “12 people died on Everest in averse weather conditions” chronicled in such an intense way with background, counterpoint and, in case of Krakauer, first person experience really scratched an itch. I’d like to read more of this genre, so please hit me with your polar expeditions, desert explorations and jungle adventures!

Like an RPG adventure game where you can merely one of the companions of a hero type? I never heard of one myself. The closest I can think of is a very old war game where you are just a soldier with a rifle and absolutely the same as all other NPCs in your squad, you are not stronger or in any way special, but all missions follow a specific script.

Imagine if they made the main character with a proper AI thinking and personality, making the main decisions while you are their companion.

e.g.:
Dune II → Starcraft II
Civilization → Civilization IV
Rogue → Hades
Tetris → Tetris Effect
etc.

As the title suggests, I’m asking for games that you think genuinely made you smarter. Whether it is because it taught you a unique skill, because you think it developped a cognitive ability, but also because it taught you about a subject, or made you think differently about the world. I would exclude any game specifically designed for “brain hacking” like Dr Kawashima stuff back in the days. I’m thinking more of actual games that just made you think “wow, this was way more than entertainment. There is a before and an after in my life outside the game”.

Thanks !

Edit : thank y’all for your recommendations! They are great.

And for those who misunderstood me, I know IQ cannot be improved. That was not the meaning of my use of the word “smarter” nor the intention behind my question. But failing to recognize the value most of you seem to have taken out of the games mentioned for it for not understanding the different meaning …

Non-competitive. I dont wanna hear valorant or something like that. An actually game that left you such an impression. It may have scarred you, or gave you a story that you just can’t forget. Im looking for THE GAME to play and I will experience it myself.

Slay the Spire is the prime example. There are tons of fantastic deckbuilding roguelikes, Slay the Spire still stands on top.

I’ve been playing games since I was a kid and I really love them. But the thing is — I’ve never spent more than 100 hours on any single game. For some reason, once I hit that mark, I usually lose interest completely.

Is that normal? I see so many people with thousands of hours in one game and they seem to really enjoy it. Maybe I just haven’t found that game yet?

Also, if you have any recommendations for games that totally sucked you in, I’d love to hear them! Maybe I’ll finally find the one.

Hey everyone! I’m Jack, an independent iOS developer and music lover. You may have seen me post here a year or two ago about my other app, Iconic, an icon themer for Shortcuts. I wanted a way to make my wallpaper reflect my favorite music, so I built Opus - Music Wallpaper. It integrates with shortcuts to automatically set your wallpaper each day.

Opus turns your Apple Music listening history into personalized wallpapers. It offers a grid-style collage for free, and if you want to unlock more customization, there are other styles such as vinyl record layouts. You can filter by a specific playlist, top tracks, or recent plays, and Opus generates a wallpaper from the album art.

Shortcuts automation really empowers this app though. I have mine set to change daily based on my recent music history, and it’s really fun to see something different every day. If you have any questions or comments, I’d love to hear them! Thanks!

I just learned that the state where I live will soon be implementing digital drivers license in wallet on my iPhone. If I need to show it to a police officer, I don’t want them to be able to get into my phone. I think that Guided Access might solve this problem. If it would is there a way to make a shortcut that I can trigger very quickly that will lock down my phone and automatically open the drivers license in my wallet app. I also don’t want anyone to have access to any of the other cards in wallet. Is this all possible? Thank you.

Ok first off: I live in rural England. There are gates to my home which I open by calling a mobile phone number from my phone as I approach in my car. I named the number ‘open sesame’ and even managed to set up a shortcut so that I could say ‘hey siri, open sesame’ (rather then ‘hey siri, call open sesame’) and it would do it. But It replies ‘calling open sesame’ Which is lame. I tried renaming the number ‘for your gates to open my queen’ so that it replies ‘calling for your gates to open my queen’. But it doesn’t. It still says calling open sesame. The shortcuts app seems to have very little space for tweaking … please tell me how I can make my phone say something better than calling open sesame.
This is obvi NOT life or death important- but it would make a 50 year old woman (me) smile. I’ve just changed the contact name to ‘open the gates’ - how do I get it to reply ‘as you wish’ or ‘on it’ or ‘gates are opening’ ?? Or if it has to reply with something starting with the word ‘calling …

We’ve been using an app to occasionally monitor our baby when he’s sleeping (e.g. when eating in the garden etc.) which works fine. But the other day I noticed that the Sound Recognition thing on iOS (under accessibility) can also recognize “crying babies” 👍😅 and this can be linked to a shortcut automation.

So now we’ve got all the functionality we’d been using from this app, baked right into our OS without the need for a third party (which i think was continuously streaming audio to their servers).

It works with 4 shortcuts linked to 4 different automations. When I turn on the “Baby Station” focus on the phone that stays with the baby, two things are activated:

- Babystation will send a message to my partners phone when the baby cries (detected with Sound Recognition)
- When my partners phone texts “/checkin” to the Babystation, it answers with a message with some general info (battery, network etc) and then the …

I have always created/edited them on my phone, which can feel a little tedious.

I just went to create a shortcut on my mac, which I’d never done before, and was shocked to see all my shortcuts and automations from my phone.