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Author: tyler

  • # articleFeb 13, 2021· 18 min

    Receipts

    Ten months ago I drafted a post about how incredible the Apple ecosystem is when all the pieces fit together. It was a month into the pandemic and I found myself walking through a real-life Apple commercial in the grocery store. I was a bit stunned when I got back to my car and it sorta hit me just how well the entire end-to-end experience worked. As a lifelong adherent of the positive influence and power that well made software and hardware can have over our lives, I was taken aback. And so while I was planning on finishing my thank-you post to Apple this weekend, that’s not going to happen. Instead, let’s talk about receipts.

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  • # articleFeb 4, 2021· 6 min

    Roundabout Syncing

    I don't mean for this blog post to only be more complaining. It's just my dumb solution to a Finder bug I've been running into for years. And also a great example of how a little bit of automation can go a long way. (And an even better example of how unique the macOS ecosystem is that tools like this can exist – and how scared I am that (despite assurances) we seem to be headed in a direction where powerful and clever apps are not wanted.) Anyway, something must have broken in Finder around when Apple integrated iCloud Drive into macOS Sierra in 2016. That's when I noticed that the files on my Desktop would stop appearing on…my Desktop.

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  • # articleJan 27, 2021· 7 min

    An Email Followup About Standing Desks and Ultrawide Monitors

    An online friend emailed me after reading my previous standing desk post with a few questions about the monitor pictured on my office desk. My reply kept getting longer and longer (go figure) until I decided I might as well publish it here in case anyone else finds it interesting. Without further ado, here's another 869 words about ultrawide and multiple monitor setups.

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  • # articleJan 20, 2021· 11 min

    Ow, My Back

    We officially went into quarantine on March 22. One hot afternoon in June, I found myself in the garage with a pair of shears, a screwdriver, and a hammer so I could cut an inch of leather off my belt and punch a new hole. All in all, I had lost twenty pounds by doing nothing. But did I feel better? Not at all. By May, I was hurting. The next month I was in pain. That summer was nothing but agony from muscle and skeletal pain. This post is all the fun, nerdy details that went into making my home and work offices more comfortable. It was a bit of self-preservation mixed with stress-shopping. But if you want the TL;DR, I can sum it up with two words: Stop. Sitting.

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  • # articleDec 13, 2020· 3 min

    240 Invisible Pixels

    I'm generally happy with Big Sur, but the focus on design over usability in many places is baffling to me. One of the worst offenders are the redesigned banner notifications. Here's my solution for dismissing them.

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