Month: August 2015

Doc Searls: On the B2C side, Apple is working on behalf of its paying customers. This is huge. There isn’t a customer on Earth who wants to be tracked like an animal without clear and explicit permission, or to have pages slowed by tracking cookies, beacons and ads fed by unknown and unwelcome servers. Especially […]

Shit heads.

The least favorite knife I own.

Nice review of the Tom Bihn Cadet from Casey Liss. This is a bag that has always intrigued me, that and the Co-Pilot he also mentions. This looks like a good bag for non-backpack people. (Note I'm testing another shoulder bag that is quite different at them moment, if you are in the market that […]

The gifs are telling — this blockers are going to be huge. I’ve been testing one for a little bit now and it is extraordinary how much faster things are.

The next best thing to the Chris Reeves Sebenza 21.

But by all means bitch about the UI in Apple Music instead…

Fantastic post from Shawn. And it fits in with how I am using the Due app to help try and build some of these small habits. One of the things that never seems to get down at my house is emptying the bathroom garbage. So I have created a new task in Due which repeats […]

I buy every new version of Acorn, because it is awesome.

What is it like to work on a nearly constantly moving surface? Turns out that it isn’t that bad at all.

Gabe Weatherhead, responding to the Amazon workplace hubbub, and specifically Jeff Bezos’ email regarding the matter: Second, sending a company email on the weekend implies that the company culture encourages working on the weekend and considers it completely normal.

Romain Dillet reporting: “I don’t need new shoelaces, I need new shoes. I thought to myself, if I buy new shoes — they are work shoes, I only wear those shoes at work. If I buy new shoes, I’m committing to myself that I need them because I’m going to be there for a while. […]

Dan Moren: This longevity goes hand in hand with the decline in specs that I wrote about last month. We’ll continue to use our devices as long as they accomplish what we want them to, not simply when specs suggest we “should” upgrade. I have a 2008 MacBook Pro still in service as a home […]

His Little Snitch rules for mimicking the ‘overcloak’ feature of Cloak is pretty awesome.

Quickertek has a sweet external battery pack for the new MacBook. It appears to charge the MacBook while it is running and adds 8-48 hours of battery life. The only downside? The price: $300. Still, I would love to get one of these.

You know how, as an American, you just always assume that work cultures like the French just look at American workers and laugh. But thier laugh is both pompous and pitiful? That's how I think most American workers are going to view this article about Amazon workers. That system is going to implode.

Nice review of what is one of my favorite travel bags.

Son of a bitch, where has this been my entire life?

Sigh.

MG Siegler on using the iPad as an only computer: If I have to take out my laptop to do even just one thing, why not just use it for everything? That’s the sticking point for me as well.