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Bending the knee, $1 million at a time
M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads
Of course, the point here, in the real world, isn&
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Samsung will release their phone first and still gets accused of copying Apple
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat
Apple is expected to release an all-new “iPhone 17 Air” model this year, prioritizing form over function. A new supply chain report today reiterates what to expect from the iPhone 17 Air size and pricing, but it also says Samsung
I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now
It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules about how often I share them, so here's another collection I enjoyed recently.
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A quick, incomplete thought about Squid Game 2
This one thing about Squid Game really sticks in my craw…
My lil' Ghostty terminal config
I wrote about Ghostty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it&
Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want.
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of 3 weeks early in the
More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies.
Here we go again!
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2025: The year of fitness (members post)
2025 is upon us and my goals for the new year are very clear: I need to get my fitness in order. Here's the plan…
Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product
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OpenAI is early Googling late-stage Google
Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From the 2000s
In order for Google to keep its crown, it needs to remember what it was in the 2000s and a bit of luck.
Seeing Google grow from the plucky upstart who made the
Apple’s 2024 report card: Apple Watch ⌚
This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did
Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming:
With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0 achieves all of these
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That time Apple made Audio Hijack way worse, but eventually made it better for everyone
Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
I’m delighted to say that we have completed our transition to ARK, and it now powers all of our audio capture apps on MacOS 14 and higher. Our glorious hassle-free future has finally arrived, and you can get started with our apps in
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPad
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did
Grading my 2024 Apple predictions
First off, merry Christmas!
I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main product lines, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, and the soon-to-be-released Vision Pro. I’ll be doing that again over the last few days of the year, but in the interest of keeping those posts reasonably
Starship is a late contender for favorite new things in 2024
I don't have a huge love for Star Fox 64. I mean I played it with friends and