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”
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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”