An unexpected side effect of getting older is that you outlive some of your favorite restaurants. I think that’s why cranky old people are cranky. They can’t get that one favorite dish anymore. Three menu items I’ve lost to the ages: PieWorks Bread Sticks K&W Chocolate Creme Pie Fat Daddy’s Cheeseburger
My beloved Apple LED Cinema Display has acquired a flicker and may not be long for this world. It arrived with my first Intel MacBook in 2009 and served as my primary display through (at least) four different MacBooks over 10 years. Built like a tank, this model was physically similar to the Thunderbolt Display that came after, but had a Mini DisplayPort connector instead. It really is an elegant…
Dear tech press, please stop writing articles entitled “Apple release a new widget, should I upgrade my 12 month old widget?” It’s always no. Nobody needs to upgrade last year’s phone/tablet/laptop. That you’d even entertain the idea makes you sound like an eight year old hopped up on pixie sticks drooling over something in the claw machine. Write a story about…
9to5Mac is reporting that Apple has two new Home products launching soon , a new Apple TV 4K and a new HomePod Mini. The new Apple networking chip, the N1, which recently debuted in the iPhone 17 lineup, is expected to also appear in both these new gizmos. With the iPhone 17 phones shipping to customers in the last week, folks have been testing the new networking silicon and it looks like a…
Finally got a chance to install the macOS 26 Tahoe Beta 1 on my laptop… which finished just as Beta 2 was released. Whee!
A while ago, I suggested that the best iPad for a developer was the MacBook Air . At WWDC 2025, Apple revealed all sorts of power features for the new iPadOS 26 including a whole new windowing mode and support for long running processes like Final Cut exports. While these are fantastic improvements for some power users, these still don’t give developers what they need to make the iPad a…
Tomorrow marks four months using the new adorable M4 Mac mini. The biggest complaint in the reviews was the odd choice to put the power button on the bottom. I pushed it once to turn it on in December and I haven’t touched it again. So, that’s working ok for me.
The new Mac Studio looks cool, but I’m still happy with my M4 Pro Mini purchase from December. The loaded up Mini is $500+ less than a similar spec Studio (memory/storage) with a few less cores. It’ll do nicely for me.
5K run today with surprise thunder shower. Pros: Not too hot. Nobody on trail. Plenty of frogs out to cheer me on. Cons: Moist!
Almost fits!
Now that Apple is making its own cellular modem, does this mean we might finally get a cellular enabled Mac? That’d be a ‘finally’ for sure.
This is the most bizarre design choice Apple has made in a while. I didn’t realize it, but the SE 3 (2022) doesn’t have MagSafe either, the only other phone released in the last 5 years to omit MagSafe. I guess apple doesn’t think MagSafe is special enough for the Special Edition. Apple drops MagSafe support on new iPhone 16e - 9to5Mac : Update: The 16e lacks MagSafe but supports…
Everybody knows about CamelCase, snake_case and even kebab-case. But today I learned about SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE!
Celebrated President’s Day with a lovely protest at the NC Capitol in Raleigh. That’s right, it’s so bad the introverts are out marching. #50501 www.cbs17.com/news/loca…
LOL, what if the “newest member of the family” Tim Cook is talking about is Netflix?
Republicans are fine being told a dog’s pronouns but irate when told a human’s pronouns.
5pm on Christmas Eve — excellent time to get a rejection email for a job application. Happy Holidays! 😜
TFW you order a fancy new Mac mini “for tax purposes” and the order is still processing no matter how often you reload the page.
Big milestone today. Installed my first 10 Gbps network connection in the house! Wheeeee!
Today’s the day where you periodically have to go figure out why your Verizon plan suddenly costs $20 more a month. Once you determine that your old plan (which no longer exists) is inexplicably more expensive, you have to decode the new plans and see which one costs the same as the old plan with mostly(?) the same features, except the 600GB of Verizon Cloud™ storage, whatever that was.
This just in – Python has switch statements now! Proceed accordingly.
Like the elusive Bigfoot, the black Mac keyboard remains tantalizingly unobtainable. That’s right, even after the big USB-C update, Apple does not sell a black Mac keyboard, unless you want a numeric keypad. Black mouse, yes. Black trackpad, definitely. Big black keyboard, no problem. Small black keyboard — whoa there cowboy! That’s crazy talk!
I cancelled my subscription to Max and upgraded my Disney+/Hulu sub to the bundle that includes Max to save a couple bucks a month. As it turns out, there’s a couple days of overlap where the old Max sub hasn’t expired yet but the new one is in effect. And the Max app is freaking out! Not in a bad way, just lots of warnings - “OMG, you got 2 subs!!!” Honestly, it’s kind of a pleasant surprise…
A couple weeks ago, I dropped my AppleTV remote onto the (apparently) very hard hardwood floor. The remote went thud and the power button, newly liberated from the rest of the remote, skittered away to embrace its newfound freedom. Hmmm… After retrieving the power nubbin from behind some furniture and armed with unbridled optimism, I tried to pop it back into place. It sort of worked, but…
I’ve been using the Swift OpenAPI Generator to generate an interface to a REST server and it works quite well! There is soooo much less code! But of course, we can’t have nice things. The OpenAPI generator is an Xcode plugin and once you enable plugins in Xcode 15, every other build crashes with “internal inconsistency error”. Apparently this happens across the board with…