• Tech Ennui

    I’ve been feeling a little down about tech lately. It’s nothing really big; it’s just a mixture of little things that have slowly been adding…

  • Leaky Abstractions: When IFTTT Triggers Aren’t What They Seem

    As part of my ongoing initiative to always show up to internet arguments with receipts, I built a bespoke Rube Goldberg machine that can automatically…

  • Electron Is Bad

    So I was discussing 1Password’s recent decision to switch to Electron, and I want to elaborate a little more on why I hate Electron so…

  • More on Apple’s “child protection” features

    Regarding Apple’s upcoming feature to scan children’s Messages content for sexually explicit media, there’s a detail I had missed about how it worked: The “phone…

  • Apple’s TV strategy

    From a recent MacRumors post, Apple’s neglect of home/living room hardware has gotten even Apple’s own engineers concerned: In his latest “Power On” newsletter, however,…

  • 1Password’s New Apps

    Today 1Password announced a completely redesigned app in 1Password 8. But it has a dirty little secret. It’s no longer a native Mac app; it…

  • The Ultimate Preventative Medicine

    Prediction: In future decades, we’re going to realize that the most powerful way to fight decades of growing obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other metabolic…

  • Apple and Privacy

    I’ve got several post drafts written in my Drafts app about this issue, but I’ve found myself struggling to express how I feel. For context:…

  • The Moonlander: 1 Year In

    I’ve been using ZSA’s Moonlander keyboard as my daily driver for just over a year now. Now that I’ve had the keyboard for awhile I…

  • The First World Problems of Being a Mac Pro Owner

    So I’m doing some housekeeping in DEVONthink, and it’s in the process of indexing and creating thumbnails for a folder I just relocated and want…