G’day. 👋 I’m a doctor, an independent iOS app developer, and an aviation and spaceflight enthusiast. This is my blog, which also functions as my person...
While I was renewing my Apple Developer Program membership earlier today, a thought occurred to me: until this year, I’d never installed and used beta versions of Apple operating systems; not in any real capacity, anyway. I’d been paying for this membership since 2014, and in that span of time, there was only one moment in which I’d installed a beta OS — the (southern hemisphere) winter of 2023,…
Here’s my one sentence summary of long-haul multi-stop flying with Flighty Pro: it makes flying feel seamless. I’m sure many of us are familiar with the aspects of international travel that seem diametrically opposed to the very concept of seamlessness. Endlessly long lines at check-in counters and immigration clearance. Trying to rest on a bench in front of a departure gate screen. Overpriced…
Pinch me. John Gruber , providing commentary on my last post: It’s bad enough to include 161 third-party trackers on a website. But it’s downright dystopic to declare your 161 third-party “partners” under the heading “We Care About Your Privacy”. That’s like beating someone in the head with a baseball bat while telling them “We care about your skull”, literally adding insult to injury. Also John…
Earlier today, I opened one of the top links on r/worldnews. Something about Kier Starmer preparing to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? It’s beside the point for this post. Before I could even read the article, I was presented with this dickover : Let’s be real … if The Observer actually cared at all about your privacy, they wouldn’t share your personal data with ONE HUNDRED AND…
John Gruber : I started capturing screenshots of every dickover I saw when I started working on this article, and I soon had to give up because I was collecting too many of them. But this one from Tom’s Hardware I actually enjoyed, because their own dickover got dicked over by one of their own fucking ads in a JavaScript Z-axis slapfight. Read the post on Daring Fireball to learn the definition of…
I’m heavily biased, seeing as Spider-Man is my favourite superhero 1 , but Spider-Noir is doing everything right. The cinematography, the soundtrack, the fight choreography, the smoking-hot femme fatale, the costumes, the name-checking of older films, the presence of corporations that no longer exist, and the origin stories established during the Great War. It is absolutely perfect, and if you too…
This post contains spoilers for Season 5 of For All Mankind . If you’ve been meaning to watch it, save this post for later and go watch it! And if you’ve never seen any episode of the series before, there’s never been a better time to get into it. Coinciding with the finale of Season 5, Apple premiered the first two episodes of Star City , a spinoff series providing an alternate perspective on the…
Everything below this introduction was written entirely on my iPhone, while I was sat in an economy class seat on a Singapore Airlines flight back in March. I was originally going to expand on these points in a more comprehensive piece, but I couldn’t resist the title of this post, which itself was also written on that flight. So, here are my thoughts from the moment, unedited: In-flight Wi-Fi,…
I just got done with using Kagi Assistant 1 to help me debug some audio codec regex patterns in an app that I use. I’m fascinated by the ‘thinking’ processes that these modern LLMs employ; so, once it was done with the task at hand, I had it summarise how we worked through the problem. Then, I asked it to compare my use case with the use cases that tend to attract negative criticisms of generative…
Per his wishes, I try not to ruminate on what things would be like if he were still around … but I couldn’t help but think, “Steve should’ve been there,” while I was watching the recording of the Computer History Museum’s ‘Apple at 50’ event . If you’ve ever had any interest in the history of Silicon Valley, and Apple in particular — perhaps, like me, you once read Walter Isaacson’s biography of…