Connor Hicks

In the past few months I have gotten married, sold my company, and (mostly) recovered from a hint of founder burnout. Everything that's happened in my life recently has made me want to change the way I use technology. More than ever, I want to avoid social media

I installed the new iOS and iPadOS betas, and then proceeded to not notice much of anything to differentiate them from 16.6. The iMessage interface has a new menu for apps/photos/etc, and you can now long-tap on the iPad lockscreen to do essentially the same customization

It seems to be good vibes similar to the early days of Twitter (and Hachyderm). Bluesky SocialSee what’s next. If you see this first, here's my remaining invite code: bsky-social-bkopxhi

We tried to go winter camping this weekend, but discovered the exhaust for our diesel heater had become damaged so we had to abort. Our consolation prize is a hike with a surprise bald eagle encounter!

Snapchat's "My AI" is becoming properly useful for me simply because its quickly accessible on my phone's lockscreen. You can place a shortcut to a specific person in Snapchat on your lockscreen, so now with one tap I can chat with a moderately helpful

This is our first hybrid event since the pandemic started! I really enjoyed hosting, and I especially love this meetup series since we're working across the Wasm startup ecosystem to run these events together and showcase the best that Wasm has to offer. There were also some appearances

I've been looking for more ways to get outside in the winter given that we don't go camping as often. Someone reminded me of geocaching, and after looking it up, it seemed like an awesome community. I went out and did my first find today! It&

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We took a photography class on the weekend, and it was my first introduction to 'street' photography. Edited in Lightroom.

I finally got around to pulling out an SD card reader to edit RAWs rather than the JPEGs that come from the camera's WiFi transfer. Re-edited some previous photos plus some new ones. I think I'm strting to get the hang of Lightroom and not