Free Business Idea
I’ve mentioned this idea casually many times, but I’m posting it here begging for someone to steal this idea and run with it. I think it’s technically simple to do, and there’s money in it. The idea:...
View ArticleReturning to the Adobe fold… sort of
I remain very frustrated with my Photography workflow. No-one seems to get this right and it drives me nuts. (I’m unwilling to pay Apple lots of money for a ridiculous amount of iCloud storage, which...
View ArticleTech Free Saturdays with the Kids
Like many parents, Rosanna and I are concerned about our kids’ obsession with “technology”, so we tried “tech free Saturdays”, and it worked for about an hour (I — more than slightly ironically — spent...
View ArticleAffinity Photo — Redeemed!
An observant reader has pointed out that Affinity Photo (now?) offers the option of using Apple’s RAW converter instead of its own, which mitigates the single biggest problem with this otherwise...
View ArticleThe New Macbook Pros
As someone who was forced to pick a new laptop about two weeks ago, i.e. just before the new Macbook Pros were announced, I have to confess that I’m a little pleased that the new machines don’t blow my...
View ArticleAnnouncing bindinator.js
Having recently set up bindinator.com, I am “officially” announcing my side-project Bind-O-Matic.js bindinator.js. It’s a small (currently 7kB gzipped and minified) Javascript library that is designed...
View ArticleHeterogeneous Lists
One of the things I wanted to implement in bindinator was heterogeneous lists, i.e. lists of things that aren’t all the same. Typically, this is implemented by creating homogeneous lists and then...
View ArticleEmail & Equality
Since today is inauguration day, my thoughts are turning back to the last eight years and how we came to be inaugurating a Republican president, again, despite the fact that most Americans disagree...
View ArticleHyperCard, Visual Basic, Real Basic, and Me
When the Mac first appeared it was a revelation. A computer with a powerful, consistent user-interface (with undo!) that allowed users to figure out most programs without ever reading a manual. I can...
View ArticleHow to parse Trump
The key to advertising, I read somewhere, is to pick your product’s greatest flaw, and claim the exact opposite as a virtue. (This is where I found the picture, by the way.)
View ArticleTempted to switch to Windows
Before you decide my blog is suddenly interesting because I’m a hemi-demi-semi-prominent pro-Apple guy who is switching to Windows, hold your horses. It’s not. I’m not. The correct, non-linkbaity...
View ArticleServing b8r
In a former life I worked on optimizing delivery of a fairly large website. I won’t pretend I understood a fraction of the detail, but I had a pretty good idea of the big picture and in a couple of...
View ArticleGetting an Nvidia 1070 (or similar) GPU working on a Mac Pro 5, 1
I’ve been using a chipped Radeon 7950 in my 2012 Mac Pro for several years (it was a serious upgrade to my original 5770 or whatever it was that came with it) but eventually my Dell 2715Q (a 4K...
View ArticleA better RAW workflow for $35
As my frequent reader knows, I have been grappling with my RAW workflow for as long as I have had a RAW workflow. I’m hardly a pro or even much of an enthusiast, and I find dealing with all these files...
View ArticlePlease enter date of birth…
I’d like every person who has implemented a date picker control to enter the birthdays of their living relatives one-hundred times using their own date-pickers. Then try some ancestors. Date pickers...
View ArticleSystem Update Weirdness
I’m simply recording this for the benefit of others who may have similar weird experiences updating to 10.13.6. I recently updated macOS via the App Store from 10.13.5 to 10.13.6 and it was unusual in...
View ArticleVoldemort vs. Casmir vs. Every Asshat in the Seven Kingdoms — The Villain...
Here’s the tl;dr: Please, HBO, don’t make a bunch of Game of Thrones spinoffs. I’m virtually certain they’ll suck. How about an adaptation of the Lyonesse trilogy? I’m guessing it would be dirt cheap...
View ArticleUlysses and the subscription model
The life cycle of software — as exemplified by Photoshop — is: A new program with an unfamiliar UI but incredibly useful features attracts a devoted following. The devoted followers evangelize the...
View ArticleReplacing Crashplan
I’ve been pretty happy with Crashplan for five years or so, although lately not so much. Obviously, one reason to be unhappy with Crashplan is that they’re no longer supporting the family plan I was...
View ArticleBBEdit 12
BBEdit 12 is out. You can nearly make it look better with a dark theme now (although the circular “close” buttons indicating an open file are ugly) although it seems like there’s a bug in the theme...
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