And now it’s all this

A few days ago, Allison Sheridan wrote a very persuasive article about using TextEdit, the “unsung hero of macOS,” as a simple word processor.

I mentioned in my last post that I’m working my way through Practical Deep Learning by Ronald Kneusel.

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Today I tried to add a couple of recently purchased books to my library database using my lccn2library script.

Yesterday’s post included this plot: I figured it was worth a quick post to show how I made it.

Rhett Allain, physics professor and blogger, published a nice article today about the Moon’s orbit.

I’ll admit that the first thing I looked into regarding yesterday’s “Super Intelligence” meeting at the White House was whether Tim Cook was there.

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The episode of The West Wing that’s always bothered me is “Evidence of Things Not Seen,” which is Episode 20 of Season 4.

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Everyone’s favorite Apple archivist, Stephen Hackett, wrote a short post last week in which he linked to Apple’s page with dimensional drawings of its products.

Starting about 45 minutes into today’s Apple Event, during the segment on the new Apple Watch, Ron Huang introduced a couple of features of the Series 12 and Ultra 4 that struck me as both disturbing and possibly illegal.

This is sacrilegious among some parts of Apple fandom, but I like using web apps.

I was out on a walk yesterday, listening to the ’70s Hits Radio Station on Apple Music, when “Don’t Leave Me This Way” came on.

After I learned how to make a Mac widget with TerminalWidget and how to determine the locations of celestial objects with Astropy, the natural thing for me to do was combine the two into a widget that tracks the planets.

Through an odd coincidence, I started writing this post when the Sun was in Cancer, but by the time I’m done and get it published, the Sun will be in Leo.

A few days ago, I posted this image on Mastodon: The code I ran to get this two-month calendar on my Desktop was bash: if [ $(date +"%-d") -gt 15 ]; then cal -A 1 else cal -B 1 fi |\ terminal-widget --target cal --font Menlo --bg "#eeeeee" --text - I…

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I noticed today that the Cubs and Yankees have the same record.

The indispensable Michael Tsai has an interesting post up today about Apple Park and whether its design isolates the people who work there, despite its having been designed—in part, at least—to encourage collaboration.

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A couple of days ago, Casey Liss took a break from arguing about temperature scales to tweak me about the recent passage of the Sunshine Protection Act by the House.

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