Appreciate that!

Friends don’t let friends use the allen key to assemble furniture. Get this $8 angled drill bit and it’ll change your life. Affiliate links below with my favorite HOTO drills (yes I have two):

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If you’re not watching the re-entry, wyd??

These people almost have as much monitor real estate as @williamgallagher.bsky.social

Status Update: Mission Accomplished

Done by 5:40pm, MPU is ready for Sunday (Apple Smart Home episode!), two videos done, one published, and Primary Tech Daily is up!

Have a great weekend!

AirPods Max 2 Review: The One Thing I Can’t Ignore YouTube video by Stephen Robles

📺 My relationship with AirPods Max 2 is...complicated. Here's my full review, comparison to the 1st gen, and trigger warning for what happened to the "canopy" on my old ones 😬 youtu.be/a4ol2VnyYPo

Got a lot of questions about my workflow, will make a full video on that soon. What a Friday looks like

- Filmed A Roll for 2x videos
- Captured B-Roll during
- 1x Ad spot
- Extra B-Roll for AirPods
- 8:30-11:45

Afternoon: Editing, thumbnails, get MPU episode ready, Primary Tech Daily, done by 5pm

Since when did we go from from “No Mail” to “No Messages”??

What Simon said ⬇️

haha why didn't it know when I was asking it about Shortcuts date formatting?! It's gaslighting me

🚀 New Primary Tech Show is out!

OpenAI is flailing, Anthropic's Mythos model is too powerful, are vertical tabs any good, and I bought something very silly. Listen or watch everywhere!

Apple Podcasts (with video): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oVR...

I bought something very silly and blame @reckless.bsky.social We discuss on today’s Primary Tech 😅

Updated my NASA Photo of the Day Shortcut. No API, pulls directly from the web, and should work much better.

Asks if you want to save the photo or set as a wallpaper: shortcut.bot/nasapod

Claude does it again! I needed to update the smart home page on my website, and Squarespace deprecated the feature I used to do it.

Gave the current page to Claude, asked it to rebuild it with HTML and...it just worked! Retained all my affiliate links AND images too.

Glad you’re enjoying it! For MPU we don’t have plans yet, and the way we host that show it’s not even an option right now. We’ll see what the future holds!

Gah sorry. I think the amount of requests even on cloudflare was too much

That’s the reliable way to do it

Ok, I really wanted a Shortcut that pulled the highest quality Artemis II images, without API or limits. So...I just hosted them myself and made this one.

Now whichever images you choose, these will save the originals at full quality, EXIF data included: shortcut.bot/artemishires

We all hit the Flickr API limit IMMEDIATELY. Updated this Shortcut to pull large size images from NASA's page, no API: shortcut.bot/artemisii

Oh that's coming

Artemis II images are incredible. Made this Shortcut that pulls all the original / full quality images from the NASA Flickr page. Choose the ones you want and it saves to Photos

Takes forever to run as it's pulling huge files, but will work on making a "lighter" version soon: shortcut.bot/artemisii

Shortcuts 101 - Building 7 Shortcuts for App Icons, Menus, QR Codes, & HomeKit Toggles YouTube video by Stephen Robles

Hey! So this is the "101" video I made a while ago, but I'm currently running shortcuts University in my community, a 13 video series. Once that's done I plan to release as a self-directed course soon which would be exactly what you're looking for! youtu.be/CNLo26EVUu8

Trying to explain podcast audio delivery in 2026:

Well that’s complicated. If you’re in the Podcast app and you’re on iOS 26.4, and you’re not a paid subscriber, you’re hearing the “video’s audio”. You would also hear that on Spotify and YT Music.

If you’re on iOS 26.4 and a paid subscriber, or listen in any 3rd party app, that’s ferrite

I’ve avoided HomeKit buttons for a while as they all take coin batteries, often disconnect, etc. But just got these and they’re great!

Thread, 3 buttons with 3 options each, and rechargeable via USB-C! Affiliate 🔗 geni.us/37XP7

I’m using the audio from Riverside for the video. I apply an EQ to my voice and adjust levels but that’s it.

I use our locally recorded WAV files in ferrite for the audio only versions of the show.

For the podcast, specifically video side, I make almost zero edits. I’ll use a cut silences feature but that’s about it

I thought that was a For All Mankind Screengrab at first!

Please tell me they find Optimus Prime out there

Record a Podcast With Me! My Full Studio Setup + Workflow YouTube video by Riverside

The first part of this timelapse is me recording the video! And for podcasts, I talk about here: youtu.be/vhupiBubCRY?...

Today's Apple TV video, from hitting record to pressing publish, took 2.5 hours. Here's my entire process in timelapse, AMA