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I recently replaced all of my old Apple TV remotes with the updated Siri Remote. One of the things I hated most about the old remotes was the terrible touchpad. The remote looked so cool, like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the touchpad was so prone to accidental input that I wanted to throw it across the room. The new Siri Remote still has a center touchpad, but I found that there is a setting to turn off swipe on the remote. However, once it's off, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to force quit an app if it was misbehaving.

I finally figured it out and thought I'd share. When swipe gestures are disabled, you'll still want to press the TV button twice to bring up the switcher, but instead of swiping up on the app to close it, you press 'up' twice very quickly. I hope this saves someone a headache.

Really interesting video that breaks down the isolated tracks from The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows.' Just found out that the reversed guitar solo was most likely lifted from the 'Taxman' recording session.

The Caesar salad was born in 1924 in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini had opened Restaurante Caesar's to attract US visitors craving an escape from the prohibition laws. The story goes that on a bustling Fourth of July, the restaurant was running short on menu items, so Caesar snatched up the leftover ingredients, rolled them out in a dining cart in the presence of drunk, hunger-stricken Americans, and prepared an improvised salad with a theatrical flourish, tableside, distracting them from the random ingredients. It was an unexpected success.

The story behind Caesar salad

A fun tour around the Tiny Desk. I was actually surprised that it's not a set but an actual desk in an office.

I just scrapped my original version of this blog in favor of a design I more or less created by hand (with the help of Claude Code, of course). I was previously using a theme based on AstroPaper but now this blog runs on on 11ty. It's nothing special, but really all I wanted was a simple, clean, and readable site where I could post ideas and links that I want to remember. So that's all this is.