WTF is a Thunderbolt?
WTF is a Thunderbolt, and why is everyone pretending that’s a perfectly acceptable word and product name. What does it even mean?
Thunder is a sound. It is not a bolt.
Lighting comes in bolts.
How is everyone okay with this?
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tech
A collection of 159 posts
PayPal Fail
In the grand scheme of things, it isn't the biggest possible corporate failure imaginable. It seems like PayPal took a list of states, sorted them alphabetically, and then converted them to 2-character abbreviations – which are then not sorted alphabetically.
So, yeah, state names and state abbreviations don'
Swap On!
I've never had stability issues with my VPS provider of choice ... until I started using Ghost. As soon as I started publishing posts, the whole VPS would freeze up and I'd have to force reset it. It felt as though if I were gentle with the
The Vision Pro I Want
What is most irksome is that I know Apple could make this here and now if they wanted to; they’ve got all the requisite tech ready and available.
The biggest shortcoming of any beautiful monitor is that you can’t take it with you. If I want peak productivity
Best Practices
This reminds me of a consulting firm that was hired by one of my employers. They sent over a handful of "senior" engineers.
It's rarely the newbies who are the problem: more often than not, they eagerly accept feedback; it is the developers with ~10 years
Job Search Filter
...by organizations that indent their code with tabs, like civilized people, instead of spaces, like barbarians.
Unrelated to all that.... I have never seen a video that hits home quite like this one does. It's just...painful. This guy gets it. Or at least he portrays it perfectly.
This Reads Like a Sinking Ship (Apple)
I know I can often be all doom-and-gloom when it comes to Apple, but wow, does this ever read like a sinking ship.
Earlier this week, it emerged that Meta had hired multiple Apple employees, including longtime Apple designer Alan Dye, while conducting its own recruiting blitz for AI and
Find-a-Potty
This was an app idea I had years back. A friend inspired it. Her neighbor's house was undergoing an extensive remodel. The construction crew's porta-potty was placed at the road. Throughout the day, random passers-by would drive past, stop, back up, hop out, use the potty
MovieID
This is one a few apps I wish I had maintained. I had a good reason for abandoning it; it didn't die of disinterest. It was unavoidable, unfortunately. Anyway.
The app served two important purpose for me.
1. When I've got a "thing" in
Hosting an AASA File on Your Ghost Blog
I recently started blogging again after a long hiatus. The only things I really cared about were:
1. I need to be able to self-host it.
2. It needs to not be WordPress.
And so I discovered Ghost, which has been mostly great. The lack of a user interface for