When I tell people, "I started my app business in 2007", that's not true. I never meant to start a business – it just happened. Because if I had sat down one afternoon and thought, "I'm going to begin selling software online today," I sure as hell wouldn't have intentionally named my company Click On Tyler. For fourteen years, I've hated that name.
read the full post →I wish I could remember who on Twitter pointed out this Accessibility feature, but I wanted to highlight it here and how I use this gesture because it's such a fun shortcut for automation nerds. Watch this.
read the full post →I've been big into journaling for close to a decade now – at least in my personal life. But I've never been able to build up the same habit in my work / professional life – even though I know I would reap benefits there, too. I've tried all sorts of workflows to make journaling my workday a regular and frictionless routine — everything from a Day One hotkey to some convoluted Keyboard Meastro macros and Drafts.app actions. None of them stuck. But what finally did work for me (at least for the last six months or so) is a tiny little Mac app called Capture Thing.
read the full post →Situations like these are never easy on the person's family – no matter the medical condition. But Alzheimer's is particularly vile because at some point, the person living with this disease…disappears. And other than the occasional fleeting glimpse of their old selves, the person that family loved and now has to take care of, is gone. It's fucking cruel to witness the story play out over the remaining years. In my grandmother's case, it took eleven. My grandmother passed away in August of 2019 at ninety-five years young. Why am I writing this post now? Two years later? Before I get to that, let me tell you about her.
read the full post →The story I'm reminded of today is the one about the only actual Apple leak I ever personally heard. It was one of those awkward moments in an otherwise mostly-quiet train car where one person will just. not. stop. talking. And this guy was going on and on about the electronics company he worked for and all the patents they had.
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