The best WWDC
On the eve of WWDC 2025, there’s a lot the Apple enthusiast community is downtrodden about. But I’d like to think about something different, and…
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Audi Q4 E-Tron: Accidental Review
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…