Approaching hard work – by David Hoang: Purpose and ambition in life looks different for everyone, and it’s important for you to define what that means. Long hours do not equate to success. Grace Walker recently gave a talk, Small on purpose, about the life of a solopreneur and w … | Continue reading
Michael Tsai – Blog – Recovery Options on Apple Silicon Macs: When pressed briefly, it starts the Mac up in normal macOS mode; when pressed and held until the Mac reports that it’s loading Recovery Options, it engages Recovery mode, where you navigate startup and other options us … | Continue reading
Don’t Look Away | NextDraft: The recent acts of public antisemitism and antidemocratic leanings are examples of how this stuff spreads and movements go from the edges to the mainstream. For a great review, watch Ken Burns latest series, America and the Holocaust. Parts of it will … | Continue reading
How Antisemitism Gained a Foothold in the GOP: If antisemites were too marginal to pose any danger, it would be easy enough for the party to cut them off. (If you want to know what it looks like when Republicans decide to really throw somebody out of their party, look at their tr … | Continue reading
Scripting News: Monday, November 28, 2022: I guess getting my eye fixed has helped me see more clearly. [It’s an interesting thought. That body modifications can change perception. Especially vision.] | Continue reading
The Incentivized Waste of Free Returns — Pixel Envy: The supposedly efficient marketplace has produced a system where the cost of production has decreased so much — through deliberately seeking the lowest-wage factory workers and taking a hands-off approach to their safety — that … | Continue reading
Collaborating away: Ideas like the shower. Ideas like our pillows. Ideas like commutes. Ideas like walks. Ideas like the morning, or late nights. Ideas like daydreams. Ideas like you doing something else so they can surprise you. Ideas aren’t contained. They aren’t located. They … | Continue reading
Best Work Stories: David – 2022 – cord Insights: All the good, great ideas we’re going to come up with, they’re not going to just flow into the work right away. They have to wait until it’s time to decide again. That level of tying your hand behind your backs in some ways, not be … | Continue reading
MailMate: MailMate is an IMAP email client for macOS featuring extensive keyboard control, Markdown integrated email composition, advanced search conditions and drill-down search links, equally advanced smart mailboxes, automatic signature handling, cryptographic encryption/signi … | Continue reading
Why I’m thankful for Universal Control on my Mac and iPad: Then came the magic moment. I took a screenshot on the iPad, and the floating screenshot rectangle appeared on the iPad screen. You can tap this floating rectangle to instantly open the screenshot editor, allowing you to … | Continue reading
THREAD GROWS YOUR HOME’S CAPABILITIES, NOT ITS CLUTTER > Thread Group: A Thread Border Router is a device that joins a Thread network to the rest of your network, and allows messages to flow between them. That may mean it looks like a bridge or a hub when we draw one in a diagram … | Continue reading
MarsEdit 5 Public Beta – Red Sweater Blog: I’m excited to share that MarsEdit 5, the next major upgrade to the desktop Mac blog editing app, will be officially released in about two weeks! I am still tying up some loose ends but I want to share an early peek with any users who wa … | Continue reading
Async fn in trait MVP comes to nightly: The async working group is excited to announce that async fn can now be used in traits in the nightly compiler. You can now write code like this: #![feature(async_fn_in_trait)] trait Database { async fn fetch_data(&self) -> String; } impl D … | Continue reading
Command Bars: Maggie Appleton (via Dan Grover): Command bars are command-line bars that pop up in the middle of the screen when you hit a certain keyboard shortcut. […] Rather than remembering which sub-sub-sub menu a function lives in, users need only remember its name. They don … | Continue reading
Automate HomeKit with HomeControl Automation URLs – PVIEITO: HomeControl also includes full automation support for all the actions available in the app (triggering scenes, switching a device or device group status, changing the primary home and also changing device properties) wi … | Continue reading
inessential: After Twitter: I outright stole the “stretched out across the map” thing from Franz Kafka’s “Letter to His Father.” It was just right for this. Come at me, Kafka. [Brent, you’re a classic. “Come at me, Kafka.” Perfect.] | Continue reading
From Monospace to Duospace: In Search of the perfect writing font: Designers have pointed out that, with all the structural benefits that may or may not come from using a monospace font when writing, there are typographical compromises in typewriter fonts that are mere mechanical … | Continue reading
Bike Outliner: Outline Writing tool, lists, notes app for Mac: I think macOS needs more “bicycles for the mind”. Bike is small enough to fully understand. Once understood it’s flexible enough use for many purposes. Bike is small, but designed for real work. It’s fast. It can hand … | Continue reading
It’s not an experience: Alto.com is a wonderful pharmacy that offers same day delivery. I have nothing but great things to say about them. But they’re following a pattern I’m seeing far too often these days. They’re trying to track everything, and asking people to attribute "expe … | Continue reading
Did Apple really make the ANC in AirPods Max worse? Yes, but…: The technical report demonstrates the latest 4E71 firmware for AirPods Max indeed reduces the ANC and it’s not just in peoples’ heads. At the time of this writing, Apple hasn’t yet addressed RTings’ findings. There’s … | Continue reading
Jony Ive on Life After Apple – WSJ: One surprising thing about Ive’s approach is that conversation, rather than sketches, is how he often begins a project. Thinking—and then speaking about that thinking—is the raw material he works with. “Language is so powerful,” Ive says. “If [ … | Continue reading
Move the needle or move on: The only way to make mental space for new ideas, new experiments, and new possibilities is to let go of mediocre ideas, unfulfilling experiments, and disappointing actualities. Stop hoarding the insignificant. [Great tag line…] | Continue reading
Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet’s traffic per second: The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), al … | Continue reading
Elon Musk says he can’t cover Ukraine Starlink costs after diplomat insult – The Washington Post: While SpaceX at points has portrayed Starlink service in Ukraine as an entirely charitable venture, it has not, in fact, covered the entire cost. The Post reported in April that the … | Continue reading