The new iPhone 16e kills "The Small Phone" for Apple. The vast majority of people want bigger screens. Pictures, video, social media, etc... it is all BETTER on the big screen. This is because the vast majority of people are addicted to their p...
I like Spotify; it is a nice service and I am happy to pay them a reasonable price to listen to music.That said, why they insane amount of trackers? Why the documented dark patterns of data selling and psychology mapping?I get ads; that is what...
I love my MacBook Air. It is perfect: screen, keyboard, battery life, speed, etc... I just don't want to be in the Apple Ecosystem any more. So I thought, "I'll just use different apps.". I am here to report that it is no big deal.I am no longe...
We own very little anymore... even our words are falling into the hands of others. I want to push back against this.When my business works with a client, an enormous part of the value proposition is that they own what we build for them. This is...
We have moved our company's Rails apps as well as our clients to either 7.2.0.beta3 or 8 alpha. Using Propshaft has been great as it is one less thing to 'build' and has simplified our mental model even further.That said, there is a change for ...
I turn 40 in 1 hour. I am struck by gratitude. Each day is a blessing, a gift.To my family, my friends, my sweet 5 year old daughter who is calling me "Old Man Daddy", thank you.I am grateful.
Windows is 'chatty'. Especially with its home base back in Redmond. You can shut that up by using the Chocolatey package manager to install O&O ShutUp10. I turn everything in Windows 11 off with the exception of my camera and microphone bec...
Fiddling around with software configuration, making guesses about your stack, and the increased development time this takes will hurt your ability to serve businesses.Whether you are building a marketing website or a backend dashboard, you will...
I write JavaScript everyday. JavaScript is great. The ecosystem... not so much. Some of the new meta frameworks like Astro and Sveltekit are promising and hit the right marks.Nevertheless, every website I work on from the simplest to the most c...
Windows shocked the developer world in recent years by investing deeply in open source. They produced the most popular open source code editor in the world, Visual Studio Code, bought GitHub, bought NPM, and have a first class Linux solution on...
I love writing code. Most of the software I write is heavy in JavaScript. That said, I didn’t want to fiddle around too much for my personal blog. My criteria were the following:Data ownership: I don’t want my content owned or controlled by a t...
Social Media is obviously popular. People are obviously addicted to it. We know in some amorphous and general way that it is bad for us. Nevertheless, we keep using it like the addicts we are. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc… they are built to ...
I miss writing so I decided to blog again.This site is deliberately simple. No trackers, no ads, no monetization. I just want to write, particularly about the books I’m reading.I finished Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Me...