Time Machine
We opened the door and stepped out of our time machine — my children another year older.
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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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Ow, My Back
<p>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.</p> <p>All in all, I had lost twenty pounds by doing nothing.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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:</p> <p>Stop. Sitting.</p>
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240 Invisible Pixels
<p>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.</p> <p>Here's my solution for dismissing them.</p>
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Digital Heirlooms
<p>If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you'll find that I take preserving our (my family's) digital memories and history seriously. </p> <p>However, if I were to die tomorrow, the app I made for my son and installed on his iPad this morning will stop working in one-hundred and ninety-two days. Not for any technical reason. Not because of future software incompatibilities. If his iPad remained in working order for another hundred years, it wouldn't even matter. This digital heirloom will self-destruct as soon as my developer certificate expires.</p> <p>And it's all due to an arbitrary decision on Apple's part.</p> <p>I don't think I'm being hyperbolic when I say that future historians and even archaeologists are going to revisit our time and be furious at the direction our industry turned towards using consolidation, monopoly power, and artificial restrictions to protect profits at all costs.</p>
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