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One Small Step For Apple
On Tuesday, Apple held a relatively quiet virtual event at 10am Pacific, during which they kicked off a massive transition for the Mac, the likes of which we haven’t seen since early 2006: you can now buy a Mac with an entirely new processor architecture of Apple’s design. The History Apple isn’t new to processor…
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Walk the Planck
If you know me you know my collection of clicky keyboards has been steadily growing since I bought my first one in April of 2012 (a Das Keyboard, if you were wondering). In recent years, though, I’ve developed an affinity for a specific subgenre of keyboards: keyboards that are 40–50% the keys of a full-sized…
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Reflections on the election this week
This has been a deeply stressful and mentally draining week in the icanthascheezburger household. For us, an election like this is consequential. Being queer we had the great fortune of witnessing a vast expansion of our recognition of equal rights, but these are precarious and are already getting whittled away. In a sense, these elections…
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The iPhone 12 belongs to the ages
The last phone I reviewed on here was the iPhone 5 back in 2012. I generally get a new phone each year, but I suppose I’m not religious about posting stuff on here. Looking back at that review, I remarked primarily on two things: speed, and the transition from the 30-pin connector to Lightning. While…
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Local bookstores and the missed opportunity
As I watch small, independently owned bookstores continue to desperately cling onto their customers for survival, I can’t help but feel really angry that Amazon cornered the market on e-books for no better reason than these bookstores decided they didn’t want to be a part of it. Now, e-books haven’t taken over the market in…
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Unpopular opinion: Ring’s drone camera is unjustly maligned
FULL DISCLOSURE: I was a relatively early employee of Ring. I had equity in Ring and made money when Ring was acquired by Amazon, and then I made money from the Amazon stock I bought with said money. I have a variety of opinions about Ring and having been on the inside has left me…
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Thoughts on the loss of RBG
There is an alternate reality where she died where I can reflect on her life with the awe and admiration that her life and career deserved. In that reality, I’m not super torn up about her death. She had an incredible run and her legal decisions have had ripple effects on law and justice in…
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Clipboard History with Alfred
Note: this is your last chance to win a free Alfred Powerpack! If you want to enter, you should own a Mac, since you’ll need one to actually use Alfred! To enter, do one of the following: follow me at @harpaa01 Subscribe to icanthascheezburger via email Subscribe via RSS at the link above and leave…
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Keyboard Projects: Iris
Over the past year I’ve developed a periodic habit of going on keeb.io and just ordering up a kit for a keyboard just to try it out. Like with most mechanical keyboard supply shops, you have to keep a close eye on when things are in stock, but they have some fun and relatively simple…
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Fully Programmable Keyboards
I first got hooked on mechanical keyboards in 2012 for the simple reason that they felt really nice to type on. They make nice satisfying clicky sounds, but also they just feel nice under your fingers. It’s a delight to the senses. But the bigger thing that’s kept my interest in mechanical keyboards as strong…