The TRMNL is this cool programmable eInk screen that is connected to Wi-Fi and can display pretty much anything you like (and there are tons of fun things it can display thanks to a big ecosystem of plugins). As a nerd, that sounds fun. I was even more intrigued when I learned its business model [ ]
I ve made a brand new theme! This is my first foray into making a custom WordPress theme from scratch and I m quite happy with the results! I wanted to go with something kind of bold and maximalist. I had seen this sort of color block style on other sites and I thought it was really [ ]
My friend runs a shop that sells and repairs mowers and other small engine equipment. For years she s ranted to me about how lousy her dealer management software is, and on a number of occasions she s asked could I make something myself? And for years I d tell her it s probably not feasible, because building something [ ]
Note: this is about 2025 for my life specifically. For the world at large, it continued to be a dumpster fire and I acknowledge that how my own life went and how the world went aren t necessarily in sync. I m really happy with how life went for me in 2025. And that s pretty exciting, considering [ ]
2025 is the year display makers finally put out a bunch of 32 6K displays, and the best one is from a Chinese brand you probably have never heard of. I figured Kuycon s We have the Pro Display XDR at home would superficially look like a Pro Display XDR but otherwise feel like a cheap [ ]
Cars are in a rough place right now, especially EVs. The ID. Buzz is a touch of whimsy in a sea of cars that are getting more homogenous and less colorful. When you see one on the road, it s the opposite of seeing a Cybertruck. It s bright and friendly looking. It comes in fun colors. [ ]
Tech leaders are trotting out the We ll use AI to reduce headcount in the next 2 years talking point again. I ve been hearing this talking point for at least two years now. It s always just a couple years off. It s not backed by the actual ability for AI to do that, of course, but it [ ]
On the eve of WWDC 2025, there s a lot the Apple enthusiast community is downtrodden about. But I d like to think about something different, and reminisce about my favorite WWDC in recent memory: WWDC 19. In the grand scheme of things this was a big WWDC event. Apple introduced some long-rumored new APIs, like Catalyst [ ]
My Q5 has been sitting in the shop for about a month now waiting for a part from Germany and I ve been driving a loaner Q4 from my local dealer. I ve had it long enough that I feel like I can review it well enough! The Good My main car is a Q5 e-tron plug-in [ ]
Almost a year ago I lamented that since macOS Sonoma was released, the Messages app suffered a serious performance regression with text input. I m happy to say that with the release of macOS 15.2, it s better! It s not quite as smooth as text input in an AppKit app, but it s back to being adequate.
Disclosure: The company I work for is very heavily invested in generative AI, specifically developer tools. As a result, I have financially benefited from recent AI popularity and I’ve had involvement with building software products that incorporate modern generative AI. These are my opinions, but my closeness to AI has surely influenced these opinions. I ve [ ]
I take a pause at the end of each year to reflect. It s a casual habit that got more deeply entrenched when I was in college and winter break was a rare occasion when the stresses of student life were truly lifted from me and I really had no responsibilities for a brief period. During [ ]
I was depressed by the US election results this year, but initially I was just kind of surprised at the results. Harris ran a solid (if a little conventional) campaign against whatever Trump s campaign was, and she underperformed Biden s 2020 results by millions of votes. Trump picked up votes this year over 2020 (also deeply [ ]
Hot off the presses the week while the US celebrated Thanksgiving, we ve got a new report that a Stanford researcher has found that as much as 10% of software engineers may be ghost engineers who are allegedly around 10% as productive as the median engineer. In other words, this researcher claims to have discovered the [ ]
In the summer of 2020, like a ton of people, I ordered en e-bike. In 2023, after installing a handlebar riser and eliminating the wrist pain I was experiencing riding, I got serious about biking as a hobby, biking over 250 miles, and this year I ve biked a little over 320 miles so far (and [ ]
The Supreme Court issued a bunch of disappointing rulings this past week (and might well be slated to issue another one Monday morning). American voters from 1988 helped to shape those rulings because there are two justices on the Supreme court that were appointed by George H.W. Bush. And of course, it goes further back [ ]
You don t need me to explain to you that Vision Pro is a flop. It was never expected to sell in large volume this year because Apple was always bound by the number of displays that could be made for them, but Apple is not selling a ton of these things. It wouldn t be my [ ]
As Apple released its latest batch of iPad Pros, the reviews were a familiar refrain: the hardware is awesome but held back by iPadOS. But this time, a different idea has been getting floated around more: what if we could virtualize macOS on our iPads? After years of begging Apple to give iPadOS some more [ ]
Owing to a recent crusade of mine to start dispensing opinions to companies who may or may not want want them, I found myself corresponding earlier this week with a software company that’s turning an app I love from being a document-based app that saves good old fashioned files on your computer, to being an [ ]
tl;dr: This adapter is solid, and if you have a wired CarPlay car that you want to make wireless, you ll be happy with this. I ve been thinking about trying a wireless CarPlay adapter for years and finally decided to give it a shot after having some Bluetooth issues with my car and my iPhone 15. [ ]
As I ve been using Vision Pro and figuring out its strengths and shortcomings, I find myself trying to understand its place in the world once it evolves. Thinking about Vision Pro as a computing platform, it feels much more iPad-like than Mac-like. The eye and hand tracking input mechanism feels like touch input, but adapted [ ]
Apple has been really clear in their messaging that this isn t an AR headset or a VR headset; it s a spatial computing device. I suspect 50% of the reason they did this was because they want an iron grip on their PR messaging for this product and don t want it compared to other devices you [ ]
When I saw Apple demoing a feature where you can broadcast a virtual version of your Mac s display into the Vision Pro, it put Vision Pro from being a eh, we ll see to I m definitely getting up at 5am to order this . I am notoriously picky about stuff like this, and I have trust issues [ ]
Last summer when select members of the tech press got brief demos with the Vision Pro, the reviewers’ impressions really oversold the experience of the passthrough video. I don t think the reviewers were trying to oversell it; I suspect that it was a side effect of how tightly Apple controlled the demo environments, preventing the [ ]
When the review embargo got lifted earlier this week, my eyes were glued to screens, watching people s impressions and getting a better understanding of the nature of Vision Pro. My excitement for Vision Pro grew from casually interested and curious to what this will be like to I had trouble sleeping one night due to [ ]
macOS Sonoma has had a bug since its release. I ve been dutifully reporting the bug to Apple and the bug reports have gone ignored for months now, so it s time to run to the press (okay, I m being generous calling this the press) and see if other people see the same thing. (Also, I reached [ ]
A couple weeks ago, many parts of the US experienced a spurt of winter weather, and one of the side effects of this was that a lot of electric car owners in cities faced some obstacles. The colder temperatures reduced their cars battery capacity and made recharging slower. That, and likely the general desire to [ ]
If Facebook s algorithms recognize you as anything like me, you ve likely seen these ads for Sidio s colorful looking milk crates that make it look like everything you might want to store can look way cooler than it actually is. One of my toxic traits is that I can be very disorganized, but I also believe [ ]
Because I contain multitudes, I am both kind of bearish on the Vision Pro s likelihood to really get traction as a product, but I did get up around 4:30am this morning (edit: yesterday morning; I was tired last night and didn t get to posting this) and manage to order one despite being in the midst [ ]
On the face of it, you d be forgiven for thinking that Rabbit s R1 device is quite different from Humane s AI pin. They got presented in considerably different ways, and Rabbit got a considerably more positive reaction, being possibly the most interesting thing announced at CES. Both companies presented their products pretty differently. Humane spent years [ ]
We re addicted to perpetual growth, and the addiction is quite literally destroying the world. I constantly see the folly of the forever growth mentality in tech. Investors kept hyping up Netflix throughout the 2010s as they kept growing at an unsustainable pace, then they put on their surprised Pikachu faces and panicked when the growth [ ]
Just a couple of things you may have noticed: I switched to a different theme that I thought looked kind of fun. Some day I might actually take on making a custom theme for myself, but this one was an off the shelf one made by Automattic. I added dark mode support as well (finding [ ]
Vision Pro is coming soon; perhaps even in the next month or so! The months between January and June 2007 were absolutely loaded with excitement and anticipation for the iPhone, and every excuse a tech blogger got to mention it in the title of a post, they did because it would reliably get clicks. The [ ]
At the end of last year I was reflecting on people I was thankful for in my life, and one of the people I reached out to was my buddy Scott, a fellow enthusiast of retro games. I told him that I wanted to double down on joy in 2023, and that included more time [ ]
First off, for the hopeless pedantics among you, let s get this out of the way: yes, I am aware of the definition of algorithm, and I realize that literally any arrangement of feed items into a feed is algorithmic, even a chronological feed. But algorithmic feeds has a clear colloquial meaning here and I will [ ]
There s been an increasing tension around the exclusivity of Apple s iMessage product, and it feels like that tension has hit a peak over the last month or so. Here s a handful of the iMessage related events in recent history: Automattic (the WordPress people) acquired the Texts app, a universal messaging app with support for, among [ ]
Earlier this year I was on Mastodon, opining casually on Apple being so tight-lipped about their strategy with their highest-end pro Macs, and suggesting that Apple just speak openly about the long term plans because there isn t really much of an Osbourne effect to be concerned with, and it will help pros trying to make [ ]
2023 was a relatively quiet year for icanthascheezburger. It wasn t a quiet year for me, though. I spent much of the year adjusting to the new reality that the most important person in my life decided to pursue another relationship and moved out. I had experienced a previous loss in momentum back in 2021 when [ ]
As it turns out, scary fast was referring to the fact that the event itself was contained to a tight 30 minutes. I noticed a few things in the event: Macs are available with a dizzying array of chip options now. Not only do you get to choose between M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, [ ]
About a year ago, I laid out some ideas for how Elon Musk could take a company like Twitter, which he recently acquired, and turn it into something that makes money and retains its value. Elon Musk didn t exactly go with that approach. Instead, he s kind of been running it into the ground. There s little [ ]
Ozempic s been getting a ton of attention in the media over the last year or so. If you re not familiar, Ozempic (generic name semaglutide) is a relatively new drug that came on the market a few years ago to treat diabetes. One of its side effects is loss of appetite and subsequently weight loss, and [ ]
I ve been using ZSA s new Voyager keyboard for a few weeks now. The first thing that hits you when you unbox it is how damn thin it is. It s not just thinner because it s using low-profile Choc switches (and similarly low-profile keycaps), the actual case of the keyboard itself is considerably thinner than even the [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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, [ ]