Topic
Apple
- M1 Mac Mini
I just got a new Mac Mini with the M1 Apple silicon. The experience so far is stunning performance compared to my previous 16" MacBook Pro. I was using an i9 with 16GB RAM, and this Mini blows it out of the water on rā¦
- 10th Anniversary of the iPad: Perspective from the Windows Team
A great annotated Twitter thread from Steven Sinofsky, who was leading the launch of Windows 7 coincident with when the iPad was announced. 19/ The iPad and iPhone were soundly existential threats to Microsoftās coreā¦
- The Deal of the Century
A fun story from Jimmy Maher about the 1991 partnership with IBM that moved Apple from the Motorola 88000 chips to PowerPC. It was a savvy deal that kept the Macintosh (and Apple) alive and kicking long enough to bridā¦
- Weekend Reading: Software Dependencies, Conversational AI, and the iPad at 10
š Dependency Drift: A Metric for Software Aging We've been doing some thinking on our team about how to systematically address (and repay) technical debt. With the web of interconnected dependencies and micro packageā¦
- iPad Pro 11" Impressions
I just got the latest version of the iPad Pro, opting for the 11ā model instead of the previous generation 12.9ā one that Iāve been using for 2 years. Some brief thoughts so far on a weekās worth of usage: The iPad Soā¦
- AirPods with Apple TV
I recently learned that you can pair your AirPods with the Apple TV, which I've been using for the last couple of weeks. With two kids sleeping nearby plus noise from the nearby kitchen, it's impossible to get the volā¦
- Steve Jobs in 1981
I saw this Nightline interview clip with Steve Jobs from a recent Steven Sinofsky post. In this clip is his famous "bicycle for the mind" quote about the personal computer. This is a 21st century bicycle that amplifieā¦
- iPadOS Beta
I normally avoid early upgrades to iOS betas, having been burned too many times in the past. But this time, the release of iPadOS is too exciting for me to avoid. Now that the public beta is available, I set it up andā¦
- The Bing of Maps
At the recent WWDC, Apple announced an overhaul to their Maps product, including millions of miles of fresh data from their vehicle fleet, along with a new Street View-like feature called āLook Aroundā. Even though itā¦
- Weekend Reading: The Next Mapping Company, Apple on Pros, and iPadOS Workflow
šŗ (Who will be) America's Next Big Mapping Company? America's Next Big Mapping Company?") Paul Ramsey considers who might be in the best position to challenge Google as the next mapping company: Someone is going to tā¦
- iPadOS
I've written here before about my enjoyment of working on the iPad Pro. Even with the excitement around Apple's launch of the new Mac Pro this week, my favorite announcement was their "specialization" of iOS in the neā¦
- Weekend Reading: Rays on a Run, Apple's Pivot, and Mapping Grids
ā¾ļø The Rays are a Surrealist's Delight Love to see the Rays getting some deserved attention in the mainstream sports media. They've put together a great, diverse lineup of consistent hitters that have performed well aā¦
- Weekend Reading: Hurricanes, Long Games, and AirPods
ā Hurricane Season 2017: A Coordinated Reconnaissance Effort The NSF StEER program has been using Fulcrum Community for a couple of years now, ever since Hurricane Harvey landed on the Texas coast, followed by Irma anā¦
- Weekend Reading: Remote Work, Autonomous Behaviors, and AirPods 2
šØš½āš» Why Naval Ravikant Thinks Remote Work is the Future Anyone that works in a successful company with a large distributed staff can attest to remote-first being the future for knowledge work organizations. The moā¦
- Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames
š±iPad Diaries: Typing on the iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio I swung through an Apple Store a couple of weeks ago to check out the new hardware. The Smart Keyboard Folio has been hard to imagine the experienceā¦
- Weekend Reading: AV-Human Interaction, iPad Pro, and Buying Out Investors
š How Self-Driving Cars Could Communicate with You Interesting work by Fordās self-driving team on how robotic vehicles could signal intent to pedestrians. You normally think Waymo, Tesla, and Uber with AV tech. Butā¦
- Weekly Links: Cars, AI Doctors, and the Mac Pro's Future
Cars and Second Order Consequences š The cascading effect of a world with no human drivers is my favorite "what if" to consider with the boom of electric, autonomous car development. Benedict Evans has a great analysā¦
- Weekly Links: AI, APFS, and MBA Mondays
Trying out a new thing here to document 3 links that caught my interest over the past week. Sometimes they might be related, sometimes not. It'll be an experiment to journal the things I was reading at the time, for pā¦
- Task Capture with Siri & OmniFocus
I've talked before about the concept of "ubiquitous capture" and how achieving a system where you never lose an item is an ideal for a seamless GTD setup. No matter what task management tool you use of the hundreds ofā¦