WTF is a Thunderbolt?
WTF is a Thunderbolt, and why is everyone pretending it's an acceptable word? Thunder is a sound. It is not a bolt. Lightning comes in bolts. How is everyone okay with this?
Topic
rants
A collection of 59 posts
The Vision Pro I Want
Apple could build the Vision Pro I actually want today: no front screen, no AR, no battery, no wireless. Just a light, comfortable headset that projects my monitor over a Thunderbolt cable. That alone would let them ship the headless, portable computer I'd really pay for.
License to Trim
I've always found it baffling that haircutting is licensed by the state. A chat with a forty-year barber sent me down the history: Minnesota in 1897, fears of "barber's itch," and mostly economic gatekeeping against immigrant competition. If you don't like your cut, go elsewhere.
Children and Communion
If the minister fences the table against unbelievers, why do we also exclude the baptized children of believers? Looking into paedocommunion sent me back to 1 Corinthians 11, where context, as always, is key, and one-off proof-verse hermeneutics is the constant danger.
Why do Carseats Expire?
I'm confident the studies behind carseat expiration dates were authored by the same folks who once proved nicotine isn't addictive. I've got a perfectly good seat I probably can't even give away. You win, Big Carseat.
App Development Drudgery (App Icons)
The problem with app icons isn't the tools, it's that the tools are necessary at all. I just want one 1024x1024 image, not three million resolutions. Icon Set Studio is indispensable, and yes, I think I actually like JavaScript a bit more than Python.
App Development Drudgery (App Store Screenshots)
App store screenshots are one of the most obnoxious requirements of app development, and once you finish, you get to do it all over again for iPad, Mac and the rest. Screenshot Studio made it far less painful, and the lifetime purchase was worth every penny.
The Wrong Dimension
At this point it's impossible to believe Apple isn't just trolling the world. They never know which dimension to focus on: shaving microns off thinness while people beg for battery life. The iPhone peaked with the 13 Mini. Make a smaller phone, not a thinner one.
Conversation with Aimee
A: Do you think we'll get trick-or-treaters? C: Is today Halloween? I bought candy just to have something cheap to toss their way. No trick-or-treaters came. Still an improvement over the suburb where kids rode driveway to driveway in the parents' SUV.
Five Guys Online Fail
Five Guys is delicious and worth the wait, but their online ordering promised I'd skip the line. I didn't. My order sat finished in the corner while I waited like everyone else, and the only catch was: had I ordered fries...