{"id":12552,"date":"2018-10-02T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2019-12-24T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:46:31","slug":"siri-shortcut-for-xyzzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/10\/02\/siri-shortcut-for-xyzzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri shortcut for &#8220;xyzzy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2389,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dropbox.com\\\/s\\\/4hp4b0jnh5dxvo6\\\/xyzzy.shortcut?dl=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dropbox.com\\\/scl\\\/fi\\\/64d0yjc75igvqtx1dlequ\\\/xyzzy.shortcut?rlkey=d8b3fnxw1o5la01ugmre4ja0x&amp;dl=0&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2390,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Xyzzy_(computing)&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251206085428\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Xyzzy_(computing)&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 11:00:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 16:55:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 03:25:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 03:25:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Old-school geeks will (well, maybe) be amused by this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/4hp4b0jnh5dxvo6\/xyzzy.shortcut?dl=0\">a very simple, very stupid, tiny iOS 12 Siri shortcut<\/a>. Tap it in Shortcuts and Siri will reply with, &#8220;Nothing happens.&#8221; Or if you set it up to respond to your voice, you can say &#8220;XYZZY&#8221; and she&#8217;ll say, &#8220;Shortcuts says: &#8216;Nothing happens.&#8217; Done!&#8221;\u2026which is less than ideal, but seems to be how it works. The joke is still there, at least.<\/p>\n<p>(If you don&#8217;t get the joke, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xyzzy_(computing)\">this might help<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old-school geeks will (well, maybe) be amused by this: a very simple, very stupid, tiny iOS 12 Siri shortcut. Tap it in Shortcuts and Siri will reply with, &#8216;Nothing happens.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}