Casey Liss

Richmond

Writer at Freelance

Host at Accidental Tech Podcast

Host at Relay FM

A man of occasionally refined taste and usually coarse language. — https://t.co/RaKOa2ahTq

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Footguns

4 days ago | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

I tend to feel… strongly. That applies to most aspects in life, including whenI find a company whose product(s) I really enjoy. Those products tend to share common traits; they are often simple on the surface,but have surprising depth to them. They can mold themselves to fit my needs, butonce that mold is set, they get out of my way. But more than anything else, theytend to be reliable. I fell in love with Apple because, back in the mid aughts,their products really did just work.
632: The Uncertainty Is Gone

4 weeks ago | player.fm | Casey Liss |John Siracusa

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Excising Dropbox

1 month ago | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

I don’t recall when, exactly, I started using Dropbox. However, I apparentlyearned a bonus 250 MB of space by completing the “Getting Started” flow backin September of 2009. So, it’s been a minute. At first, Dropbox was a revelation. It was the first time somethingsynchronized with the cloud, and did so reliably. Their client apps weresvelte, optimized, and worked a treat.
MacStories Reviews Callsheet 2025.2

1 month ago | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

I was pleasantly surprised — moments before sitting down torecord Clockwise — that Devon Dundee over atMacStories had done a write-up of theaforementioned Callsheet 2025.2. Specifically, Devon spent a lot of timewith the multiple lists of pins headline feature. Outside of the publicity, this write-up was particularly gratifying for me, asDevon absolutely took notice of some of the power-user affordances I included.
Appearance: Clockwise 597

1 month ago | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

Yesterday I joined Dan, Micah, and Simone de Rochefort onClockwise. On this episode, we discussed what we carry in our wallets, whether or notbuying a phone made by a heavy equipment manufacturer is a wise choice, how wefeel about the new Pebble, and how my co-hosts are all wrong about cellularMacBooks. Copyright © 2014-2025 Limitliss LLC
Twenty

Jan 16, 2025 | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

Twenty Thursday, 16 January 2025Ten years ago today, I wrote this post. As many of my posts do, it used many words to say one simple thing:In the end, all I can say is that I’m so deeply, deeply lucky to have found you, Erin. Twenty years ago today, Erin and I decided to become boyfriend and girlfriend. I would tell you that I asked her; she would tell you she asked me. Given myhorrible memory, she’s surely right, but I kinda like that a definitive answer islost to time.
A New [Home Screen] Thought Technology

Jan 4, 2025 | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

For years, my iPhone’s home screens looked about like this: The first screen was the one I used most times. It featured a Carrot Weatherwidget at the top, four rows of icons, and the dock. Maybe ⅔ of the time I used myphone, I was able to do so using this screen. I worked very hard to curate thisscreen. The second screen was 80% or so of the remaining ⅓ of the time I used my phone.
Where We Go From Here (2024)

Nov 20, 2024 | onefoottsunami.com | Casey Liss

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best. —Robert Baden-PowellOne Foot Tsunami has always been a labor of love. Since 2009, I’ve been proud to amuse, entertain, and inform tens of thousands of readers just about every weekday. Following the results of America’s election on November 5, 2024, however, I simply didn’t have it in me.
Here We Go Again

Nov 20, 2024 | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

Paul Kafasis:I had been describing myself as disgusted by this result, but I eventuallyrealized that was incorrect. What I actually am is disillusioned. Americawas a dream, and now that dream is gone from me. Holding on to beliefs like“good triumphs over evil” and “justice will be served” has always requiredtaking a long view. But now, when a convicted felon has yet again managedto evade consequences and scam his way into the presidency, I find my faithin my country shattered.
A Weird CloudKit Issue

Oct 22, 2024 | caseyliss.com | Casey Liss

Callsheet — my app that’s like IMDB but for people with taste —uses iCloud for several things, notably, storing your “pinned items”. Internally,I call pinned items “favorites”, so in this post I’ll refer to them interchangably. Regardless, today, there’s only one list of pinned items. My most-requested feature is to add support for multiple lists. Generally, sopeople can have things like To Watch, Watching, and Did Watch.