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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: Apple’s announcement from last week The two most controversial changes Apple announced were a new Messages app feature that uses ML on children’s accounts to detect if they are sending…
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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 wanted to share some deeper insights than the first impressions I shared last year. Layout-wise, the Moonlander is similar to an Ergodox keyboard. It has two halves, the keys are…
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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 to re-index. And I watch the progress bar move along at this leisurely pace, and then I go and check out DEVONthink’s CPU usage, and it’s sitting here politely sipping…
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Space and Rich Dudes
I share a little bit of the bitterness that visiting space has transitioned from being something that countries did, to being a hobby of wealthy people with the funds to end world hunger but instead are like “nah, I want to spend billions on a rocket to send me up into space for a couple…
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The Economics of Scale (or, the high cost of low prices)
I often see tweets like this decrying wealth inequality: Remember when Kroger closed stores in Seattle and Long Beach because the cities mandated $4/hour raises for grocery workers? Kroger just announced a $1 billion buyback for shareholders. They also raised the CEO's pay 45% to $20.7 millionhttps://t.co/3llHbpkWFr — Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) July 16, 2021 It…
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Windows 365
This announcement is one of those things where I look at it and I’m just like: It’s funny, it used to be that you’d have a browser tab open in Windows, and today, you can have Windows running in a browser tab! This also comes at a perfect time for the people who have enjoyed…
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Tech Companies and Competition
(Disclosure: my current employer is a subsidiary of Microsoft. I’m not a journalist or anything, and I don’t think that really influenced my writing, but it would have felt dishonest not to mention it.) Daring Fireball, weighing in on a recent IBM executive shakeup: I don’t offer this observation as an argument against any and…
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The Nerve of the Developers of Audacity
So a few days ago, the new owners of open-source audio editor Audacity pushed out a new privacy policy, and according to this policy, the app became permitted to collect enough data about users that people under 13 years old would no longer be legally able to use the app in the US. This caused…
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Apple and China
Apple has a China problem. Apple’s dependence on China runs very deep. Not only is China a lynchpin of Apple’s supply chain, but they’re also a huge market for Apple to sell its wares, second only to the US. But China isn’t a particularly great partner for a company like Apple. Sure, they had their…