I think my biggest takeaway from getting published in the Wall Street Journal is the recognition that it happened because I was blogging! Ipso facto, use PupperPost, become famous.
Looks like @paul@tapbots.social and I are famous again, this time in the WSJ! https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-vision-pro-walled-garden-mac-iphone-app-store-c4838278?st=enfauoa8pbjq0zv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Was clearing out the basement over the holidays, and pulled out this old polycarbonate MacBook from 2011? 1.8GHz Intel Core Duo, running Snow Leopard and in perfect working order! Not sure what to do with it. Any suggestions?
January 24, 2024
Is there a greater influence on my life? A product that has done more good in this world? A paradigm that has had a larger impact on work or society?
Maybe? For my money, nothing beats the Mac.
Forty years is both a long time and no time at all. I was ten years old when January 24, 1984 rolled around. I wouldn’t have known what a computer even was back then! But later, in high school, my first i... [Read More]
January 24, 2024
Is there a greater influence on my life? A product that has done more good in this world? A paradigm that has had a larger impact on work or society?
Maybe? For my money, nothing beats the Mac.
Forty years is both a long time and no time at all. I was ten years old when January 24, 1984 rolled around. I wouldn’t have known what a computer even was back then! But later, in high school, my first i... [Read More]
I really loved this piece by @simonbs -- the OpenAPI spec is super-interesting, and getting networking code for free? Almost too good to be true! https://mastodon.social/@simonbs/111805325072152439
January 19, 2024
I’ve been writing software for Apple hardware for over 15 years now. It’s been a pretty wild rollercoaster of a time, actually. Apple has infused me with a massive reservoir of good will because of the Mac. It was the computer that ignited my interest in technology and turned me into the programmer I am today.
There’s no question, unfortunately, that the Apple of 2024 bears little resemblance to ... [Read More]
My fellow bloggers, a new beta of PupperPost for Mac and iOS awaits you! Big quality-of-life improvements to image handling, both importing in the app and on the web. Look how nice on iPhone!
January 16, 2024
New betas for PupperPost have just gone live, supporting two major new features. The first is a majorly-reconsidered subscription handling feature. It contends with what I’ve long considered the central problem of PupperPost’s business model: because the app offers annual subscriptions for hosting 1, 3 or 5 blogs, there needs to be a mechanism for selecting what blogs are covered!
That’s exactly ... [Read More]