Month: June 2015

A few thoughts on how summer brings peace in the home.

This is a repost of the audio originally published to Spoken.co

This is a repost of the audio originally published to Spoken.co

Yes please.

How the iPad can compete with the MacBook.

Brent Simmons: Write the apps you want to write in your free time and out of love for the platform and for those specific apps. Take risks. Make those apps interesting and different. Don’t play it safe. If you’re not expecting money, you have nothing to lose. Brent’s post reads a little bleak, but the […]

It turns out I am not much of a power user anymore these days. Go figure.

This is a very interesting post from Álvaro Serrano and I mostly agree with it. Either way it is worth your time. In a section leading up to the below quote Serrano talks about The David and how it likely would not be any better if it had been made with more advanced tools. In […]

Bruce Schneier: But if everyone uses it all of the time, encryption ceases to be a signal. No one can distinguish simple chatting from deeply private conversation. The government can’t tell the dissidents from the rest of the population. Every time you use encryption, you’re protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.

Mike Schmitz: Another great feature in Ulysses is versioning, which allows you to go back to a previous version of something you’ve written in Ulysses. This allows you to edit ruthlessly, as you can always go back and get that sentence you deleted a few days ago if you decide it really should be there.

Wow people are doing some really great stuff.

Revising my OmniFocus contexts to make them less stupid, I mean to make them useful, of course.

A better way to read later with Pinboard.

So, anyone make a curved standing desk?

Matthew Shettler responding to my Spoken post about paying attention to analytics: But I’ve decided on one thing to measure that will matter to me; something I can control: Did I post something today? Good response.

Essentially, Google Chrome is listening into what your computer microphone hears. More information is here. (Glad I don’t have Chrome installed on this new MacBook.)

A review of the 2015 MacBook.

Don’t take people’s word for it, you need to know why before can consider any review.

Federico Viticci: User privacy is at the center of content blocking for both webpages and extensions. It’ll be interesting to see how many apps that just focus on blocking ads in Safari will be approved on the App Store (and how much they’ll leverage freemium models if so). Really looking forward to this.

Shibel K. Mansour: The Logitech K480 is an excellent multi-device keyboard. Those who use different operating systems will appreciate what it has to offer. Strictly as an iPad companion, however, this keyboard isn’t exactly a match made in heaven. I bought one of these keyboards too, also in white. Mansour is generous for it — […]