Duck Rowing

I really like Rust.

Using Karabiner to correct bad typing habits.

I prefer navitve Mac apps for my work – they’re better crafted, more expressive, and they just fit in with the operating system.

This might sound strange to someone who didn’t study computer science in college, given the largely amoral, libertarian bent of tech giants, but to graduate with a comp‑sci degree we were required to take an ethics class.

I usually keep politics out of my blog, but not saying anything about ICE at this point is inherently political.

This is the obligatory post that every blog has to write when migrating from WordPress to a static site generator.

I don’t like AirPods.

I discovered Blusher in a way that feels oddly retro for 2025.

An interviewer sits down with a mathematician and a computer scientist for a discussion on problem-solving and critical thinking.

I made the the World Wide Web just a little worse last month.

I’ve been unhappy with Apple’s desktop Macs for a very long time.

I’ve always avoided social media.

And now for another post where I fail to fix something.

We can’t afford to be intimidated by attorneys general who believe their authority extends to lawmaking in the state of Maine.

Back in 2016, Apple released the dreaded butterfly keyboard MacBook Pros.

I’ve often thought that modern Apple is so large that they’re effectively immune to certain signals from the market and specifically from their own customers.

News of Matt Taibbi’s reporting on the “Twitter Files” broke while I was writing my post on my recent experiments supporting ActivityPub on my microblog.

It took over a year, but it appears that Apple has reversed its plans to for on-device CSAM scanning.

I’ve never been on social media, but I do like to follow friends and people of interest online.

As I’ve written before, I lost my last iPod when I left it in the back of a cab in Manhattan.

OmniFocus has been my task manager of choice since 2008.

As I mentioned back in October, I’ve been using a Kobo Clara HD for reading fiction.

I had intended on traveling to visit family, but when we heard that COVID cases were increasing at an alarming rate, travel got cancelled.

By any fair appraisal, Apple’s new MacBook Pros are pretty great.

My thinking on the utility and importance of the iPad has evolved a lot over the years.

Not to complain, but I haven’t been on what could be construed as a real vacation since COVID shut everything the US down (around March 2020).

TLDR: I don’t know.

Aaron Harpole had an interesting post a while back that expressed a feeling about where the personal computing landscape is going.

Earlier in the month I posted a video of my usual peninsula cycling route in Portland, ME.

On the same day that Apple announced new iPhones, the Electronic Frontier Foundation was pulling a stunt - they flew a plane over Apple HQ towing a banner reading, “Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones!”

One of the few things that’s kept me sane during the pandemic is cycling through Portland, ME.

1Password recently announced that they rewrote their longstanding Mac application as an Electron application, and as one might expect, Mac users rightfully lost their shit.

Apple recently got caught slowing down older iPhones.

I’ve been a FitBit user for years, and I’ve owned several models.

I preordered a Nintendo Switch console the day it went on sale.

Did I mention I’m a fan of Nintendo Switch?

I’m not going to do a review of Nintendo Switch because there are about five-hundred other articles you can read.

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I’ve posted my reviews of the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse and Logitech’s MX Master and MX Anywhere 2 mice.

Here’s what Macworld had to say about the new MacBook Pro: 13-inch MacBook Pro review: Too many tradeoffs Macworld Susie Ochs The MacBook Pro is thinner and lighter than previous generations—this one weighs just a hair over 3 pounds.

A lot of people have been weighing in on the new line of MacBook Pros.

I bought an iPhone 6 on launch day.

A lot of programming languages are “general purpose” languages, but most of them have a sweet spot if not a specific problem domain.

A while back, I compared the Apple Magic Mouse and the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort mouse and declared that the Microsoft mouse was currently the best bluetooth mouse available for the Mac.

Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

From Ars Technica: A recent study published by market research company Phoenix Marketing International found that 47 percent of all Apple Pay users shopping in a participating store were not able to use Apple Pay to complete a transaction at least once ……

In my last post I declared the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse the best bluetooth mouse available for the Mac.

Apple has put us all on notice with the announcement of the new MacBook.

Drowning in feels.