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WWDC 2023 Keynote: First Impressions
Overall, I really enjoyed this WWDC keynote, and it feels like one that belongs to the ages (after all, it’s not every WWDC that gets a brand new platform announced). WWDC events nowadays are a massive info dump sure to overwhelm every time simply because there are so many platforms now. I want to focus…
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Apple’s VR headset is a long shot
On the eve of WWDC I’m going to share my hottest of takes: there’s a decent chance that Apple’s VR headset ends up being a product that Apple tries but will ultimately exit the market. It’s not that I think Apple will do a bad job with this product; if anything I think their execution…
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Spotlight Bionic
In the “free idea for Apple” spirit of my SwiftScript post from awhile back, I want to share a vision for the kind of AI-powered product Apple could incorporate into macOS and iOS: Spotlight Bionic. Spotlight was pretty revolutionary when it was first announced back in Mac OS X Tiger. With really good indexing technology…
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Transitioning the Mac Pro to Apple Silicon
Everyone’s busy thinking about Apple’s upcoming VR headset, but I’m more interested in a product Apple has publicly stated is coming: the Apple Silicon Mac Pro. I would be surprised if it’s actually getting announced at this WWDC, but I hold out hope that Apple’s making something great. The current Mac Pro was released in…
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The Playdate is Radical
Tech has this long-running tendency to lack restraint, and although this manifests in a lot of ways, one prominent way you can see this is with the continuous parade of half-baked products we constantly bear witness to. Spend some time watching LGR Oddware episode on YouTube and youll see what I mean. You’ll see an…
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What’s the Deal With Mastodon Instances?
In light of Elon Musk opting to go a different path from my recommendations, Twitter is managing to fall into a state of chaos at a rate that’s frankly impressive. A lot of Twitter users are jumping ship to Mastodon. It’s familiar to Twitter users. You write short posts (we call them toots) and you…
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The Freestyle Libre 3 Puts the “Continuous” in “Continuous Glucose Monitor”
Having diabetes is no fun, but from early on my favorite coping mechanism has been to try to combine managing my diabetes with my affinity for technology and cool new tools and gadgets. When I had my first appointment with my first endocrinologist, I thought I was ahead of the curve when I said I…
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Twitter: Now what?
Apparently Elon Musk officially owns Twitter now. Twitter’s easily my favorite social network. It’s always fit in with how my mind works (at least when I use it with clients like Tweetbot). I’ve often found community on Twitter, and Twitter is influential and consequential. Revolutions have taken place because of Twitter. Before news is news,…
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Keeping My Twitter Receipts in DEVONthink
Previously, I discussed a custom-built app I made called Receipts, which can convert tweets into Markdown files for me to archive and catalog. Now let’s talk about how I use DEVONthink to actually catalog them! These Markdown files are just files sitting in folders on my Mac (the folders aren’t organized by anything in particular…
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Keeping the Receipts on Twitter
For years I had this frequent frustration where I wanted to reference a tweet, but then after the fact I couldn’t find it to save my life. To try to make this easier on future me, I started getting in the habit of favoriting every tweet that I remotely thought was interesting. This was nice,…