Posts tagged with Apps
The Last Two Pixels
I run dozens of bespoke little Mac apps: scratch notepads, screen resolution tuners, and even a mini-dashboard making use of that little bucktoothed notch atop MacBook screens. A simple but critical utility is an alternate app switcher—the default…
How to Value Journaling
I started journaling before it was cool. Okay, it was never cool and will probably never be cool. But, I did start the practice and developed a habit around recording my everyday activities, plus additional reflections on life and work…
The Layering of UX Friction
It's a phone upgrade year in my household; I'm grabbing the new iPhone 17 Pro, while my wife is upgrading to a Google Pixel 10, and both of our parents are also in the midst of…
The Underwhelming State of Digital Family Calendars
I guess there's real demand for easily visible family calendars. The NY Times recently featured an article on the Skylight Hearth calendar: essentially a vertically mounted touchscreen monitor, dedicated to running a subscription calendar service with a couple…
Workflow-Centric Computing
Depending on what you consider to be the genesis of mobile devices, it's been somewhere between 1 to 2 decades since smartphones and tablets have overtaken personal computers as the primary computing gadgets—at least for personal use.…
A Ballad of Browser Tabs
Let's talk browser tabs for a sec. I read this newsletter about how someone kept all their browser tabs open: partially, as reminders to open tasks as a rough to-do list, but also as historical relics for…
