Wesley Hilliard

@hilli

Writer and podcaster at @appleinsider.com. HilliTech blog. 10 year US Navy veteran. He/Him

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Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jul 6

I'm certain Agatha would have won here.

A black cat captured in black and white with sun shining from the corner, the background blacked out thanks to it being a black felt chair.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jun 24

My thermal sticker printer unfortunately took its own life before it could finish printing this masterpiece.

A comic strip on a sticker by Sam Antics showing Garfield and Jon in an old style, the last frame is ruined

The ruined panel showing a frame that didn't print correctly

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jun 12

@basicappleguy.com I wanted to see what Apple's AI extend would do with something abstract and well...

An abstract and colorful wallpaper filled with odd shapes and curves. The outer edge has a sketched background where AI artificially extended the borders.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jun 10

Having a completely normal one testing this.

A screenshot of the new Siri AI app showing various chats about video games and Apple products.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· May 29

A post in a Kagi forum from the Kagi CEO in 2024z. If this is still true, I wouldn't want to use them either. I'm still on DuckDuckGo until a new default in Safari is available anyway. Hmmmmmm kagifeedback.org/d/5445-recon...

A reply to a post on Kagi by the CEO on use of Yandex:

search results, period. Kagi excels at this precisely because we remain unimpressed by world politics. The moment 'politics' becomes a factor in search results is the moment I stop working on a search engine.

Yandex represents about 2% of our total costs and is only one of dozens of sources we use. To put this in perspective: removing any single source would degrade search quality for all users while having minimal economic impact on any particular region.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· May 22

Don't mind me, just working with one foot on Jupiter's moon and another in my office.

A spatial workstation viewed through Apple Vision Pro overlaid on an L-shaped desk, the Jupiter environment dialed in slightly, widgets on the wall featuring the clock, weather, music, ad photos, and apps open to a text document, Safari, and RSS feed. The room is dimmed and objects like a keyboard, notepad, and more are visible.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· May 15

This is lovely as a lock screen!

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· May 15

Sony's AI camera assistant is so helpful! I don't think I'd ever have taken that second photo without its help!!

An iMac G3 toy figure with a face, arms, and legs, in bondi blue, on a desk with normal exposure

An iMac G3 toy figure with a face, arms, and legs, in bondi blue, on a desk with overblown exposure

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· May 1

- I wish the invoice was more customizable/editable - My projects don't have tasks or sub groupings, but the Invoice shows the task as 0 hours then a sub task of "general" and a subtotal then total? It should only show the one main task field. Otherwise it's pretty solid. I like the various views.

An invoice showing a table with a description and quantity field above editorial, general, and subtotal for editorial.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Apr 24

Another journaling milestone in Apple Journal.

Apple Journal Insights page showing a 600 day streak, 131 weekly streak, 115 entries this year, 1.9k days journaled, 165 restaurant visits, and 216k word written.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Apr 23

Bluesky photo update means it is time for some cat pics.

Marble is a brown and black patterned cat with a pink nose and green/yellow eyes. She's reaching out with her paw, claws extended, in a big stretch from behind a fern. It makes her look like a jungle cat on the prowl.

Harvie is a cat with orange and gray fur on her face, a white chin, and patterned dark fur on her body. She sits with her chin pointed up and eyes looking high as she lies on the wood floor of a screened in porch. A fern is visible in front of a trellis behind her.

Agatha is a black cat and he's seated at the kitchen table. His big yellow eyes look away from a blue alcoholic drink in a margarita glass on the table. His mouth is open slightly so you can see his fangs in a goofy expression.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Apr 7

Idk when this happened, but thanks @bsky.app and Apple for whatever magic allowed native in-line video playback in iMessage.

A video of a dog breaking an obstacle course shown above a link preview from Bluesky embedded in an iMessage thread. The text below says "oh hey look, native video playback in Messages. Nice one Bluesky.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Apr 7

Kyle Ren in Star Wars standing in his awkward high rise pants with no shirt.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Apr 2

hmmm

A certificate for the "Am I a Tech Bro?" quiz that says "Not a tech bro" in large green letters. Other data shown includes that the respondent didn't match with any tech bro ideas.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Mar 10

Still going strong

The Apple Journal Insights page showing a 555 day streak, 124 week streak, 70 days journaled in 2026, 1.9k days total journaled, restaurant visits 156 times, and 212k words written.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Feb 26

Love that this is the result of putting Tim Cook and F1 into Image Playground. Just inexplicably bad. 🤣 Excited for Drive to Survive on Apple TV tonight though.

An AI generated image of Apple CEO Tim Cook in a racecar but he's the wrong proportions and makes it look more like a toy where his legs wouldn't have space.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Feb 14

The cats are not happy we had to leave them for a Valentine's date at the cat cafe.

A large white and gray cat sits at the end of a blue recliner, sun beaming through a window with a parted red curtain, which shows many holes from cats climbing the curtain, and a black cat sitting and looking out of the window in the background.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Feb 13

Sobble says the best way to watch YouTube on Apple Vision Pro is still Television by Sandwich.

In Apple Vision Pro, a VR headset, an immersive environment of the beach at Bora Bora, a blue water Pokemon Sobble that has a yellow fin and curling tail, sitting in front of an old-fashioned TV on the beach watching the opening theme of Pokemon. All VR objects placed into the space.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Feb 11

It's apparently that easy. lmao

A stock market graph for Apple, AAPL, showing a sudden drop at the end of the trading day.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Feb 8

Harvie doesn't seem to care about the Super Bowl all that much.

Harvie the cat with half orange and half gray hair looks intimidating on a kitchen table

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Feb 5

Operation listen to full albums is going great so far. All of my top artists and albums reflect one play through of an album.

Apple Music top albums for January 2026 for Wesley Hilliard: Incubus Monuments and Melodies, Death Cab for Cutie Plans, Linkin Park From Zero, Chance The Rapper The Big Day, Claire Rosinkranz Just Because, Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil, natalie jinju Last September, Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city, Logic Under Pressure, Tomoo Dear Mysteries.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jan 30

lol, lmao even

A stitched together set of screenshots showing the search results for "Fuck ICE" in Apple Music. It's a long list.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jan 15

When you select the photo for your lock screen there's a hexagonal button by the ellipsis that turns it into a special scene lock screen. iPhone 12 or later on iOS 26. 😀

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jan 15

Makes for a great spatial scene lock screen on iPhone.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jan 9

Cleaning up my music library by removing singles and adding their full albums under each artist, then listening to albums in their entirety. No idea why I became so focused on singles for the past decade when I grew up listening to CDs. Anyway, here's my most recent albums. Album names in alt text.

Album art for Remi Wolf "Juno" (A woman squatting with dogs patterned on the background), Alabama Shakes "Boys & Girls" (White album cover with circle patterns under the album and artist name), Linkin Park "From Zero" (a metallic triangle symbol in pink and blue ink), Sarah Kang "How I Remember" (A sketched woman sitting in grass), Laufy "Bewitched" (A woman laying down in a dress with a shiny piece of headgear and star earrings), Tomoo "Dear Mysteries" (A wreath on a shelf with smoke and various items and books), Linkin Park "Hybrid Theory" (A man in a hoodie with graffiti fairy wings holding a pennant flag), Panic! At the Disco "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" (Magazine style clippings of various artist party goers at a bar seat), and natalie jinju "Last September" (woman walking through a library)

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jan 7

Idc if you use Instagram, but I'm more confused by the reaction to Instagram doing Nazi shit and you feeling the need to find ways to bypass their Nazi rules. Maybe don't use the Nazi platform, that would be a better protest than giving voice to their platform and blocking people that disagree.

A post from slothroosmap saying they blocked someone for asking why they use Instagram.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jan 6

This is weird, idk how, but for some reason the Apple Watch says I burned 1400 calories while working from my desk today, with the most active 340 or so calorie hour taking place when I know I didn't even stand up. Funny enough, no odd heart rate or exercise data just calorie. All from Watch.

Apple Watch goal rings closed with the Move metric shown as 1431/400 calories.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Jan 1

Happy New Year

The Apple Journal app Insights page showing a 487 day streak, 114 week streak, one entry for the year, 1.8k days journaled, 145 visits to restaurants, and 204k words written.

Wesley Hilliard@hilli· Dec 30

Some fights in this game are wild. First the musician now a mime. Fun fight, nearly had me there, but I learned the timing enough to pull through.