John Siracusa

So you just buy a new wire.

One of the things they're showing on this IIII website is that – I'm thinking of another thing that breaks on headphones is like –

The plug for wired headphones, the wire that goes into your headphones connects to one of the ear cups.

If you're lucky, you don't have those ones that connect to both.

But anyway, if it kicks in one of your ear cups, that means there's a wire somehow that takes the sound signal from that one ear cup over to the other ear cup.

Usually that wire goes across the headband.

And sometimes that wire that brings the signal from one ear to the other can be small and can wear out, especially since the band's stretchy.

And this video they're showing on their website for their TMA-2DJ $200 headphones shows that they're entirely...

has little like whatever the 3.5 millimeter like headphone jacks oh yeah i think they're 2.5 up there but yeah yeah so the band is replaceable and if that breaks or that wire wears out or something else happens to it you chuck that away you buy another band and you plug the band into each of your ear cups and problem solve is it is very modular yeah that's hardcore um and i yeah that that is a that's a great situation there also the the other ways the headphones are

Very, very quick.

It sounds warmer in here.

These apps are kind of right in the sweet spot of things that are possible without too much effort on the Mac.

As far as I know, they're all using the existing, very old, very creaky, very difficult to use accessibility APIs.

And I believe they also both need like screen recording permission and you got to jump through all these hoops.

They can't be sold in the Mac App Store because nothing that uses the accessibility APIs can be sold in the Mac App Store.

Anyway...

They take advantage of everything.

You don't need to, you know, it's not system integrity protection.

It's not a hacksy or anything like that.

It is just like use the accessibility APIs, use screen recording permission because once you have screen recording permission, now you can get little images of the windows so you can make little thumbnails out of them.