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My Sweet Setup: Carbon Copy Cloner
Carbon Copy Cloner is one of those tools that focused on doing one particular thing, but it does it incredibly well. The thing: copying everything from one drive on a Mac to another, and copying it so well that if you boot your startup disk, you could boot up straight from the clone disk and…
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Constant naming and lookup in Ruby
I thought I had a pretty good understanding of how constant lookup worked in Ruby, but I encountered a surprising piece of behavior recently and I wanted to share it. We had a god model at work that contains thousands of lines of code, much of which is in methods that aren’t truly core to…
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Knowledge Work Is Different
Every now and then, I’ll be feeling out of it and I’ll step away from work. Maybe I’m feeling sick or fatigued, or maybe I heard a gutting piece of bad news going on in the world. Whatever it is, I know I don’t have it in me to keep doing my work, and I’ll…
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My Sweet Setup: NetNewsWire and Feedbin
When you look at NetNewsWire you can just tell it’s a Mac app through and through. At first it might feel a little spartan, but it is nonetheless quite full-featured as a reader. But once you get to know it, it’s quintessentially a Mac app. It uses a beautiful and standard Mac interface. And it…
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My Sweet Setup: RSS
Being an RSS user is probably one of my most unconventional and nerdy habits, but they’re such a better way to experience the internet I feel I must evangelize them. I could write paragraphs of text, but inspired by a recent talk I saw at RailsConf, I’d like to show you instead in a more……
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My Sweet Setup: Displays
I know what you’re thinking here: “Aaron, if you went whole hog on the tower, why didn’t you complete the set by buying the XDR displays to go with it?” And I am not going to lie, I was severely tempted to get one or two of these, for a wallet-busting five grand apiece. But…
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My Sweet Setup: Drafts
I didn’t realize there was a place in my life for an app like Drafts until after I learned of its existence. And while I’ve mostly focused on why I love the things in this series of posts, I think for Drafts I need to explain its whole deal. Drafts started off as an iOS…
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Thoughts From Today’s Apple Event
Apple’s pre-recorded presentations have gotten so tight it’s kind of wild to think of the number of things that got announced in just an hour. Apple Card Announcements This was a nice little surprise. I still think there’s some bullshit in the recent news that cleared the Apple Card of sexist behavior (when the rules…
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My Sweet Setup: Bose QC35 Headphones
I got my Bose QC35s thanks to a cranky tweet to Bose at a really opportune moment, I happened to get the Bose QC35s for free from them back in 2016: I still have these headphones today, and aside from some replaced earcups, they still work perfectly. AirPods are a popular choice of wireless headphone…
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My Sweet Setup: Dropbox
I’ve used Dropbox since its beta days in 2008. As soon as I saw that it magically offered the ability for me to have a folder that would be magically in sync on all of my computers, no matter what, I wanted it. In the early days of Dropbox, the only way you could get…