I’m seeing a lot of people being excited, today, about putting in their orders for the first visionOS devices. Although it would be easy to dismiss this as simple Apple fan dribbling, their excitement is sort of hyperbolic. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” says one person, talking about how now is theContinue reading “Just Say No to AR”
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Speed Is Relative
When Apple announced their custom CPU machines, part of the hype was how fast they are. I saw a bit of buzz like, “Oh man, my compile times are so amazingly fast,” from people who went ahead and got the Mac Mini with the M1 chip. I waited for the 16″ MacBook Pro, and IContinue reading “Speed Is Relative”
Why Monoculture
At some point, I don’t remember exactly when, I told my family that since I didn’t use Windows in a professional capacity and I didn’t use it personally, there was no way I was going to go to the effort of becoming and staying smart about Windows, and if they wanted me to do techContinue reading “Why Monoculture”
Why I Don’t Write Native Apps
Xcode sucks. That’s why. Seriously. This evening I thought, “Hmm, maybe for my next project I’ll see about writing an iOS client for my turn based game server.” So I started looking at a Swift tutorial (the language irritates me so far, but that’s just because so far all the syntactic sugar is solving problemsContinue reading “Why I Don’t Write Native Apps”
Sometimes Continuity Sucks
Facetime stopped working on my laptop sometime this year. I don’t know anyone far away with whom I actually want to chat, so I only use it when Junglemonkey goes out of town. She’s out for a few days and today the Badb came back from camp and of course we all want to seeContinue reading “Sometimes Continuity Sucks”