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MusicMessages! Making a Collaborative Sequencer for iMessage
Last month, I released an unusual little app for iMessage. It’s called MusicMessages!, and it’s a collaborative step sequencer that lets you work on short pieces of music together with your friends. As...
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An Even Better Travel Gaiwan
Previously, I wrote about the Asobu Travel Mug as an excellent (if unintentional) travel gaiwan. Now, there’s a new leader in the not-a-gaiwan-but-almost-better-than-one category: the Klean Kanteen 8oz...
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(Almost) Winning the Wireless Mouse Game: Logitech MX Master
Update: I added a companion article with latency graphs for all three of my mice. I have also revised my conclusion to no longer recommend the MX Master for Bluetooth use or use cases sensitive to...
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MX Master Continued: Mouse Latency Measurements
In the course of doing latency testing for my previous article on the Logitech MX Master, I discovered a couple of flaws in my helper app, and I also realized that I should have probably recorded a few...
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Bluetooth Headphone Sound-Off: Audio-Technica, Sony, Bowers & Wilkins, V-MODA
I am once again in the market for Bluetooth headphones. My last pair, the first edition Sony MDR-1RBT, served me very well for the last four-and-a-half years. I didn’t (and still don’t) have much...
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Data Laced with History: Causal Trees & Operational CRDTs
(Sorry about the length! At some point in the distant past, this was supposed to be a short blog post. If you like, you can skip straight to the demo section which will get to the point faster than...
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A Native Art Gallery for Your Mac (Take 2)
The challenge: fit a rotating art gallery somewhere into my life.I love visual art and find it hugely inspiring. Unfortunately, reading art books is too much of a context switch to be a regular...
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eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2
It’s been a year and a half since I wrote my article on building a hassle-free Thunderbolt 2 eGPU for my late-2013 15” Macbook Pro. In all this time—with the caveat that I was exclusively using an...
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Good Spirits: Syncing Data Statelessly
I just released a drink-tracking app called Good Spirits. The code is available under the GPL.Following my CRDT explorations earlier this year, I wanted to build an app on top of a persistence layer...
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AORUS 1080 eGPU + USB Boot Camp on a 2018 13" MacBook Pro
Previously in my eGPU saga, I stuck an Nvidia 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2 enclosure, hooked it up to an old PC PSU, and got the contraption working on a late 2013 15” MacBook Pro. In fact, the end of...
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