Year: 2016

A grown up version of the Poker II, and so much more.

I mean, this is a gift list, there’s not much more to say.

United has a new ticket fare, where no luggage is included in the price (except what fits at your feet). If you want overhead bin space, or to check, you pay. I actually love this, though I would much rather checked luggage be free and overhead charged for everyone. If you have been on a […]

Quincy Larson: To be clear, everything I recommend here is 100% free and 100% legal. If you bother locking your doors at night, you should bother using encryption. It’s a good set of first steps to take. I am curious how many people use Signal over iMessage… even I don’t use Signal for any messages […]

Pretty neat research looking into how people type, and how that impacts typing speed. I’d love to see more done with this research — and across keyboard types.

John Voorhees: Center Stage is great for casual browsing of media in your timeline, but I expect I will use it most at events like WWDC. When I’m in San Francisco for Apple’s developer conference, I don’t want to miss friends’ photos and videos of the event, but I also don’t have time to read […]

A year of being iPad only, and iPad ergonomics.

It’s a solid knife, but nothing revolutionary.

This new stand is a piece of shit.

Matt Gemmell shares another great thought about the iPad as a computer: You grab the actual tool itself, and you’re away. It doesn’t care that it’s actually a computer. I’m not sure it even really knows. Really well put. When your computer is just a glass slab with insane battery life, it basically becomes whatever […]

I mean they’re boots, and a quite like them.

Can your relatives work from an iPad, a flowchart for iPad selections, and cellular or not?

Matthew Green: On the other hand, you might notice that this is a pretty goddamn low standard. In other words, in 2016 Android is still struggling to deploy encryption that achieves (lock screen) security that Apple figured out six years ago. And they’re not even getting it right. That doesn’t bode well for the long […]

John Gruber’s stance on Ive’s role at Apple, which is apparently a thing people are worried about: I think if you want to argue that Ive is one step out the door at Apple, you also have to argue that he’s one step out the door of being a designer. That doesn’t sound right to […]

What belongs on your wrist: Apple Watch, or watch? I say watch.

Which iPad, how’s the Pok3r, and reader questions.

These are replacing my jeans.

John Gruber on preferring a Mac to iPad: I think I’m more productive on a Mac than I am on an iPad. I can’t prove it, but even if I’m wrong, the fact that I feel like it’s true matters. I always feel slightly hamstrung working on an iPad. I never do on a Mac […]

Justin Blanton: Much of what makes this possible is that I can delegate in one way or another most of what I think of, and can get away with being extremely terse in my emails. At this stage of my career my day-to-day job requires minimal work-product; if I was coding all day, designing websites, […]

As a follow-up to my member’s post this week, here’s an article where Jason Snell better articulates what he still needs a Mac for: It’s all gotten a lot better, and for maybe 90 percent of what I need to do, my iPad Pro can do it–in many cases as good or better than my […]