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    My Q5 has been sitting in the shop for about a month now waiting for a part from Germany and I’ve been driving a loaner…

  • Follow-up: macOS Messages Text Input Lags Less!

    Almost a year ago I lamented that since macOS Sonoma was released, the Messages app suffered a serious performance regression with text input. I’m happy…

  • AI’s Threat To Software Developers

    Disclosure: The company I work for is very heavily invested in generative AI, specifically developer tools. As a result, I have financially benefited from recent…

  • 2024 In Review

    I take a pause at the end of each year to reflect. It’s a casual habit that got more deeply entrenched when I was in…

  • It’s the economy, stupid

    I was depressed by the US election results this year, but initially I was just kind of surprised at the results. Harris ran a solid…

  • Ghost Engineers: The Latest Bullshit Moral Panic

    Hot off the presses the week while the US celebrated Thanksgiving, we’ve got a new report that a Stanford researcher has found that as much…

  • Biking Renewed My Love For Portland

    In the summer of 2020, like a ton of people, I ordered en e-bike. In 2023, after installing a handlebar riser and eliminating the wrist…

  • Democracy Is a Long Game

    The Supreme Court issued a bunch of disappointing rulings this past week (and might well be slated to issue another one Monday morning). American voters…

  • Vision Pro: What’s next?

    You don’t need me to explain to you that Vision Pro is a flop. It was never expected to sell in large volume this year…

  • The Untapped Potential Of Pro iPads

    As Apple released its latest batch of iPad Pros, the reviews were a familiar refrain: “the hardware is awesome but held back by iPadOS.” But…