ベン・ギルド： Somewhere in the digital forest, making apps, video, hardware, and photographs.
Before I switched to a 2021 MacBook Pro with the M1 Max ( Apple silicon using the ARM architecture ), I was on an older Intel-based ( x86 ) MacBook Pro like everyone else using otherwise recent Mac hardware. One of the pieces of software I used on my machine rarely but intentionally was VirtualBox , a virtualization product that can be used to run additional operating systems on your Intel-based…
Excerpt from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz: What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake. Dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind dreams twenty-four hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake, and it also dreams when the brain is asleep. The difference is that when the…
Since the dot-com boom , internet companies have driven a shift away from brick-and-mortar businesses where actual, real people would inspect returns before accepting them. I just wanted to do a quick post about the lingering return fraud in today's e-commerce industry. By default, these platforms are so large and handle so much transaction volume that they tend to shift this return handling…
Back when I lived in Tokyo , I used to hop on the high-speed shinkansen (新幹線) train to the mountains whenever it was forecasted to be a sunny, clear day and ideally if there was some fresh snow scheduled to fall the night before. It was paradise, and the JR SKISKI train and lift ticket packages made it very affordable and convenient for both residents and foreigners. However, this year, with…
UPDATE (2020/02/15): I'd initially released this project when it was only about two-thirds or so finished, but ultimately decided to shut it down due to a recent change in location and employment. More information about the project can be found on my portfolio. I've been tinkering with an app idea in some of my free time this year, and wanted to release it before 2020. It's an end-to-end…
I recently relocated to Manhattan, and one of the things that I really wanted next to my apartment's front door was an ePaper weather display with a three-hour segment forecast for the coming day. ☀️ For those unfamiliar, electronic paper (ePaper) is a display technology commonly seen in the Amazon Kindle that mimics ink on actual paper. ePaper uses very little power, and does not have a…
The iOS 12.3 update launched yesterday. A screenshot of the About the security content of iOS 12.3 article on Apple's site. Thanks to both teams for the mention and their work on the patch! 🙌🏻
When I first fully switched to iPhone back in 2010, one of the features I immediately missed most from my BlackBerry was the ability to set a lock screen message for the device. Essentially this lets you print a sentence or two of text that appears after you turn it on but before you unlock it, such as your name and an alternate phone number , in case you lose the device or if it gets mixed up…
Hello World. That's what you'll be seeing soon from your Kubernetes cluster if you follow this tutorial! 💬 Or, alternatively, an empty SayHello request and response via gRPC a modern and preferable alternative to RESTful APIs . (with JSON , etc.) To expose gRPC on Google Kubernetes Engine via Ingress isn't currently straightforward. Why not Google App Engine or Cloud Functions? I'm a big fan of…
Today in the iOS app for Google Voice I saw something that I'd been waiting for for a long time: A modal offering the option to enable calling over Wi-Fi and Cellular Data. Finally! Is everyone else seeing this, too? (although, probably not in Japanese ) Now, we should be able to place calls just using our iPhone's active internet connection and not the traditional phone system when using the…