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Multi-Interface Apps

With this year's iOS17 and iPhone 15, the improvements aren't exactly life-changing: a Standby mode that adds a bunch of dim widgets when the phone is statically charging; more customization options for widgets overall across…

A Pretty Good Blogging App

A Pretty Good Blogging App

For the past couple of years, I've been writing my blog posts here with Typora, a Markdown editor that I believe started initially on macOS but has since released versions for Windows and Linux as well. It was…

Luxury User Interfaces

Luxury User Interfaces

Third-party native software is hard. They tend to offer better UI/UX than web apps and pseudo-web apps living inside of WebViews, and well-designed software tends to require additional work for interface polish. On top of that,…

Appreciation for Spreadsheets

Appreciation for Spreadsheets

The managerial stereotypes aren't far off the mark. I hate to admit it, but the vast majority of the time spent managing software engineers—when not synchronously communicating with people in-person—is asynchronously communicating with people through…

The Lock-in of Apple-only Apps

The Lock-in of Apple-only Apps

I'm using the first generation MacBook Pro 13" with a Touch Bar. My prior machine was a barge masquerading as a 17" MacBook Pro, so I jumped on the new design[1] the moment it was…

Life Organization as a Wiki

Life Organization as a Wiki

Once in a while—inspired by company intranets and wiki pages—I get the thought in my head that the same level of organization should be applied to my life overall. With most the information needed to adult (e.g.…