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Composer's Sketchpad: Adventures in Icon Design
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Today, with a single tweet, the note-taking app Vesper has officially been shuttered. At its release, Vesper was widely promoted by the Apple indie developer communtiy as the hot new thing to try. More...
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GoodNotes & The Joys of Digital Note-Taking
I have to admit: I’m an analog kind of fellow. Much as I benefit from our growing roster of digital tools, I’m always on the lookout for software that reminds me of reality’s imperfect grit. Fake...
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Turning Your macOS Desktop into a Rotating Art Gallery with Backgroundifier
The category of static visual art is in a bit of an awkward phase right now. Entertainment in the 21st century has evolved to actively engage our minds and senses, to the point where movies, music,...
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Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro
My late-2013 15” MacBook Pro’s discrete GPU — an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M — was pretty good for gaming during the first year of its life. But around the time that the new generation of consoles dropped,...
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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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Winning the Wireless Mouse Game: Logitech MX Master
We all know that Bluetooth has an abundance of flaws, ranging from frustrating latency to arcane pairing rituals. By many measures, it still feels like a technology stuck in the early 90’s. And yet,...
View ArticleHeadphone Jacks Are the New Power Plugs
Blog comments are out, blog responses are in — and so I thought I’d respond to John Gruber’s recent article titled “Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives”. Here’s why I think removing the headphone...
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Composer's Sketchpad: Adventures in Icon Design
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Today, with a single tweet, the note-taking app Vesper has officially been shuttered. At its release, Vesper was widely promoted by the Apple indie developer communtiy as the hot new thing to try. More...
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GoodNotes & The Joys of Digital Note-Taking
I have to admit: I’m an analog kind of fellow. Much as I benefit from our growing roster of digital tools, I’m always on the lookout for software that reminds me of reality’s imperfect grit. Fake...
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Turning Your macOS Desktop into a Rotating Art Gallery with Backgroundifier
The category of static visual art is in a bit of an awkward phase right now. Entertainment in the 21st century has evolved to actively engage our minds and senses, to the point where movies, music,...
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Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro
My late-2013 15” MacBook Pro’s discrete GPU — an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M — was pretty good for gaming during the first year of its life. But around the time that the new generation of consoles dropped,...
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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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