Category: Stuff that’s cool

Mrs. Apple is living the cozy cottage life we all aspire to.

The Youtube algorithm somehow thought I needed something cute and inspiring to watch and gifted me with milin woolfelt.

milin woolfelt features a show called Brambly Hedge, with a bunch of stop-motion animation shorts and starring Mrs. Apple and Mr. Apple. The creator is based in Taiwan, and their channel description says everything is 100% handmade, no AI involved. Which is such an incredible relief. It’s hard to enjoy anything cute nowadays because you always have to stop and scrutinize each video and image and creator bio to check if it’s actually AI.

Anyway, Mrs. Apple and Mr. Apple live in a lovely little cottage, where Mrs. Apple does a lot of baking. Each short runs less than two minutes because I can imagine that felting, doing the animation, and shooting and maybe reshooting scenes take a lot of effort. Still, there are a lot of details to take in. I’ve gone back to one part of a video several times just to watch the wool felt moving like flames on a stove.

If this channel has a lesson to teach, it’s probably for the viewer to slow down, appreciate what’s there, and learn to take a closer look at details. I’ve seen a few comments hoping for more videos with a longer runtime, and I feel the same because everything is just unbearably cute and heartwarming and I want more of it. But the creator seems to be producing the videos by themselves, so while I’d love to see more of Mrs. Apple and Mr. Apple’s life together, these tiny glimpses into their world would have to do for now.

Journalist Taylor Lorenz tweeted about the difficulty of figuring out a hex code for a color using GenAI, and people are rightly roasting her for it.

Trying to find a hex code for a specific color, dropping it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. They each give me a diff hex code. I run it through again multiple times on each model. Now each of the models are giving me different hex codes. I love this system

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) March 31, 2026

Some people have suggested using an image editing software—even something as simple as MS Paint—and using the eyedropper tool to pinpoint the color of your choice and the software will simply indicate the hex code. Basically, people are suggesting that she use ANY available tool instead of GenAI to figure it out.

Me, my favorite resource for this purpose has always been Colour Swatches by Lindsay Marshall, Professor of Educational Practice in Computer Science at Newcastle University. I never can remember how I found this page all those years ago, but trust that it continues to be my go-to page for color hex codes. It’s surprising and also endearing to see that it hasn’t changed one bit since I started learning HTML.

So yeah. My point is, other tools are out there if you need them. You don’t HAVE to immediately turn to GenAI for what you’re looking for.

I’ve always been a big radio listener. When I was a kid, I would record songs off the radio, never mind if the DJ was still talking at the start of a song or a commercial kicked in before the song ended completely. In high school and college, I would call up radio stations to chat with the DJ and maybe even hear my voice on air. These days, I like listening to the radio because I don’t want to believe that radio is dead, plus I still discover a lot of new songs and artists this way, and I also get to see that some stations are actively playing AI songs :/ Whether the stations know they’re AI, I have no idea.

Anyway, on my way home last night, Jam 88.3’s Lokal show tossed me a musical gem. It was a cool, moody, electronic-tinged song with hypnotic vocals. After a quick Google search of some of the lyrics, I learned that the song is called “Invidia” by Psycho Silver.

I looked her up the moment I got home, and a 2024 profile on Scoutmag described Psycho Silver’s music as film noir in music form and announced that her concept album Rebirthwas on its way. She was also featured on Bandwagon Asia when her first single “Superbia” dropped in January 2024, with the single being described as “message from her past self to her future self to calm down.”

Look, I’m not a music writer or critic. The best I can say is that her two songs on Spotify sound perfect for contemplating during a nighttime drive or grooving during a chill listening party in a basement somewhere. Also, I’m eager to hear what other songs she’s got. It’s been two years since her songs came out and Rebirth has yet to emerge, but great things do take time to cook, and what we’ve sampled so far shows that the rest of her work could be pretty special.

Psycho Silver is on Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram, and you can listen to “Superbia” and “Invidia” on Spotify.

_{Photo by Trish Shishikura}