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I wanted to bring attention to my two favorite articles I’ve read this year. First up, Clubhouse Cured My Imposter Syndrome by C. Brandon Ogbunu: After just two months on Clubhouse, I finally understand how Theranos happened.And: After surfing hundreds of rooms on the popular new social media
I signed up for Pinboard a decade ago and at the time I was able to pay once for lifetime access. Since then I've used the site on and off as a way to save my links for later. In the past year I've started a newsletter all about interesting
This video is really asking for trouble. I did my own test to see how much RAM Safari and Chrome use when opening a bunch of tabs, and shared the results here. I did this becuase this article was flaoting around this past week and it suggested that Chrome was
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If you got two strangers (a Democrat and a Republican, a Cubs fan and a Sox fan, a Christian and and atheist, whatever) to sit down and have lunch together, odds are they would have a relatively pleasant time. They would maybe approach some topics that they disagreed on, but
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This article has been making the rounds the past week or so: I bet you have more than 2 tabs open right now, I sure have more. So here's a stress test where I open 54 tabs while measuring the impact on my Mac's RAM and CPU.The article goes
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With my recent purchase of a MacBook Air, I now have two 13” computers in my life, the MacBook Air and iPad Pro (2018). What I find really interesting is that while my iPad Pro feels almost too expansive sometimes, the MacBook Air feels very cramped by comparison. Why is
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In December 2019 I moved BirchTree over to Ghost (and away from WordPress), and a big part of my reasoning was: While there was nothing really killer, [WordPress] was simply starting to feel like a giant train I was barely holding on the tracks. I don’t want this site
Long story short, making YouTube videos is much easier for me on a Mac, and my old Mac Mini was the weak link in my production process. The video below includes: What exact model I gotBenchmarks (web, Geekbench, and video render times)Why now is a good time to get
Last month I made this video in which I showed how I make my YouTube videos, and sheepishly showed off my 2012 Mac Mini that was the heart of the operation. I said in the video that I was getting by with it, and that I did not want to
