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In light of Elon Musk opting to go a different path from my recommendations, Twitter is managing to fall into a state of chaos at a rate that’s frankly impressive.

Having diabetes is no fun, but from early on my favorite coping mechanism has been to try to combine managing my diabetes with my affinity for technology and cool new tools and gadgets.

Apparently Elon Musk officially owns Twitter now.

Previously, I discussed a custom-built app I made called Receipts, which can convert tweets into Markdown files for me to archive and catalog.

For years I had this frequent frustration where I wanted to reference a tweet, but then after the fact I couldn’t find it to save my life.

Full disclosure: I’m an absolute sucker for products with robust accessory ecosystems baked into their design (have you seen my Apple Watch band collection?)

It’s been silent on icanthascheezburger for awhile now, but after this week it feels necessary to speak a little bit about the state of political affairs in the US, because they are troubling.

Five years ago, Apple did something incredibly out of character: it invited a bunch of tech journalists to a round table discussion, admitted to making some serious mistakes, and pre-announced upcoming products.

Apple announced a handful of new products at today’s event, including a revamped iPad Air, a revamped iPhone SE, and a brand new Mac called the Mac Studio, along with a companion Studio Display.

I see a lot of takes on Twitter along the lines of “while you were going on about Joe Rogan and Spotify, happened.”

During the pandemic, I got a package from a Kickstarter I backed.

This is longer than a tweet would be so instead of making a Twitter thread that’s super annoying that you have to scroll through, I’ll make an actual blog post like a gentleman.

The Zip Kit is one of those oddly specific products a company makes where you see it for the first time and you think “wow, they must have made this specifically for me, and me alone.”

Fifteen years ago to this day, Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone to the world.

Reading articles on the web nowadays is an absolute fucking mess.

Another little tidbit that I discovered recently: if you are saving a lot of photos or videos to your photo library from a specific app (such as, for instance, TikTok), and you want to collect these images in one place, you can do it pretty easily!

As part of my workflow for archiving downloaded videos from TikTok, I put TikTok videos into a manually created album in the Photos app so that I can drag them in one step into the Finder.

At GitHub, we recently went all in on Codespaces for developing GitHub itself.

I am absolutely delighted at the new pro laptops Apple announced last week.

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The campaign to recall Portland mayor Ted Wheeler hit a bit of a snag after the campaign failed to collect enough signatures to get the ball rolling.

Sex work reporting in the US is broken.

10 years ago I posted a few quick memories about Steve when I was saddened to learn of his passing.

Editor’s note: This is a programming-related blog post; if you don’t program or your don’t know what a pull request is, you probably won’t get much value out of reading this.

There’s been a campaign in Portland to recall our mayor, Ted Wheeler.

Patreon had a really simple and straightforward business: creators online could sign up for accounts on Patreon, and fans could give them money every month.

Since the summer time I’ve been a little up and down in terms of posting frequency.

Last week, Apple announced that they are hitting pause on their initiative to implement a surveillance system to add software to users’ iPhones to perform client-side scanning for CSAM.

It’s hard to look at OnlyFans’s announcement yesterday of their upcoming ban on sexually explicit content without seeing where scale, and companies’ pursuit of scale, played a part in seriously disrupting a lot of creators’ lives.

I love to rag on Electron, but like many things, it has its place.

I’ve been feeling a little down about tech lately.

As part of my ongoing initiative to always show up to internet arguments with receipts, I built a bespoke Rube Goldberg machine that can automatically download and archive tweets I like, turning them into Markdown files, complete with attached Twitter ima…

So I was discussing 1Password’s recent decision to switch to Electron, and I want to elaborate a little more on why I hate Electron so much.

Regarding Apple’s upcoming feature to scan children’s Messages content for sexually explicit media, there’s a detail I had missed about how it worked: The “phone will rat on you to your parents” function is only going to happen when the child is under 12.

From a recent MacRumors post, Apple’s neglect of home/living room hardware has gotten even Apple’s own engineers concerned: In his latest “Power On” newsletter, however, Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman says that Apple engineers have personally expressed…

Today 1Password announced a completely redesigned app in 1Password 8.

Prediction: In future decades, we’re going to realize that the most powerful way to fight decades of growing obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders is to work less and live less stressful lives.

I’ve got several post drafts written in my Drafts app about this issue, but I’ve found myself struggling to express how I feel.

I’ve been using ZSA’s Moonlander keyboard as my daily driver for just over a year now.

So I’m doing some housekeeping in DEVONthink, and it’s in the process of indexing and creating thumbnails for a folder I just relocated and want to re-index.

I share a little bit of the bitterness that visiting space has transitioned from being something that countries did, to being a hobby of wealthy people with the funds to end world hunger but instead are like “nah, I want to spend billions on a rocket to s…

I often see tweets like this decrying wealth inequality: Remember when Kroger closed stores in Seattle and Long Beach because the cities mandated $4/hour raises for grocery workers?

This announcement is one of those things where I look at it and I’m just like: It’s funny, it used to be that you’d have a browser tab open in Windows, and today, you can have Windows running in a browser tab!

(Disclosure: my current employer is a subsidiary of Microsoft.

I haven’t posted a ton lately.

So a few days ago, the new owners of open-source audio editor Audacity pushed out a new privacy policy, and according to this policy, the app became permitted to collect enough data about users that people under 13 years old would no longer be legally able

Apple has a China problem.

This keynote weighed in at just under an hour and 45 minutes, but by being pre-recorded, it was a tight keynote, jam packed with announcements.

I’m glad to see that Apple employees are speaking up and pushing on Apple to embrace a more remote-friendly environment.