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Instant Bookmark Access with Alfred
I use a lot of different web apps throughout my work day, and I can’t be bothered to navigate to them all the time. Using Alfred to launch apps on my Mac is great but it’s too obvious a use case to be worth a blog post. However, Alfred does integrate with major web browsers…
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The Moonlander Keyboard – First Impressions
When ZSA announced a new keyboard a couple of weeks ago and said it was in stock and ready to ship immediately, I managed to last about five minutes before clicking the Order button. ZSA, makers of the Ergodox EZ and more recently the Planck EZ, have stepped things up with a new keyboard that…
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The Dunning-Krueger Years
I’ll periodically get these flashbacks to moments in my career where I can now realize that I was way out of my element and didn’t know what the fuck I was doing. Having worked at an early stage startup I ended up in a role where I was managing other engineers and I was not…
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A new WWDC
Speaking as someone who’s never attended a WWDC in person, today’s sessions felt like an overall improvement over an in-person event. Presentations felt tighter and more polished overall. It was probably a little less nerve-wracking for the speakers to have everything recorded ahead of time, even if they miss out on some of the live…
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ARKit and the taller skyscraper
Having seen some of the apps that were put into the App Store this week with ARKit support, it really hearkened back to an analogy Steve Jobs loved to make when OS X was first being developed. Building software, he opined, was a bit like building a skyscraper. There’s a certain number of floors that…
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You Don’t Need To Be First
“Guys, it’s crunch time.”/p> You feel dead inside as you process the words. “We’re gonna need to be doing some late nights here for awhile. We need this done by July 16 or… “he trails off. “or it won’t be done by July 16,”you think to yourself. So one late night you’re eating pizza with…
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Aaron’s Simple Guide To Security
There’s a lot of hysteria going on about cybersecurity as of late. Even President Trump knows the importance of “the cyber.”In theory, cybersecurity is really scary because there are a lot of moving parts involved and vulnerabilities are everywhere. However, a lot of recent high-profile breaches were a lot more old-fashioned in nature: someone got…
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Bose QC35 headphones: finally!
I’ve long been on the quest for the perfect pair of headphones suitable for using for work and pleasure. For the past year or so I’ve settled on Beats Studio Wireless headphones as my “good enough”headphones that get the job done because they offer two things I find essential: 1) they’re wireless, and 2) they…
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My favorite things: iKlear cleaning products
If you’ve ever worked in the same office as me you may know that I have a sort of… obsession with keeping glass screens completely pristine. My favorite (and only) tool for this job is iKlear’s suite of cleaning products. They’re the only thing that keeps my Apple stuff looking incredible, the stuff doesn’t smell…
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Thoughts on Swift going open-source
Swift going open-source today is for sure exciting news, but we need to temper our expectations for what that means for the language. For sure it’s better to see an open-source Swift than a closed-source one, but merely being open-source isn’t a panacea for Swift. Lest you think I’m just being a pessimist, Objective-C is…