Monday, March 24, 2025 →

Finished reading: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Sunday, March 23, 2025 →

MacUpdater

MacUpdater has become an essential part of my digital toolkit – a rare utility that solves a genuine problem without creating new ones. It scans your Mac for outdated applications (tracking over 100,000 apps) and updates them with a single click, eliminating the fragmented update experience across different apps. What impresses me most is its thoughtful design: a clean interface that clearly highlights outdated apps, a privacy-first approach that requires no account creation, and a refreshingly straightforward one-time purchase ($12.59 for Pro Edition) licensing model.

Platform Investigation: Eleventy vs. Micro.blog vs. Weblog.lol

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

I have been interested in sharing more online, and decided to finally do a true deep-dive into the options out there to host a blog. Background and Evaluation I have been a happy Micro.blog subscriber but never really used it to the fullest for “blogging”. I am not a big writer by any means, but enjoy sharing interesting things I come across. Maybe it’s a link to an article, or an attempt to share a take on the latest tech thing in my life.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025 →

The Future of Search isn’t Google

From David Pierce at The Verge:

I’m still using Kagi, and it’s hard to imagine switching back. It’s now _Google _that looks bizarre and unfamiliar every time I open it. As Google has become more visual, more chaotic, and consistently less good at simply finding the things I’m looking for, Kagi has stayed simple and straightforward. It is a page full of links, and they’re usually the right ones.

This has been my exact experience since switching to Kagi around a year ago, I’ve already made Kagi my go-to search engine on all of my devices.

App Defaults 2024

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Below is my updated list of apps I use in various categories updated from 2024. I have excluded my strict work-usage-only applications. Main Apps • 📨 Mail Client: Mimestream (macOS) / Mail.app (macOS/iOS), Mail.app, and Gmail (search only) (iOS) • 📮 Mail Server: Gmail, Fastmail, and some iCloud hosting with a custom domain • 📝 Notes: Notes.app (ad-hoc/personal), NotePlan, and a late shift back to Obsidian (work). I still bounce between these apps but lately enjoy using Obsidian more for most notes.

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App Defaults 2023

Sunday, November 26, 2023

I was inspired by Hemispheric Views 097 - Duel of the Defaults! and this post by Robb Knight. Below is the list I use in the various categories mentioned. I have excluded my strict work usage only applications. 📨 Mail Client: Mimestream (macOS) / Mail.app (macOS/iOS), Gmail (search only) (iOS) 📮 Mail Server: Gmail, Fastmail 📝 Notes: Notes.app (ad-hoc), NotePlan. I do still occasionally dabble with Bear and Obsidian. ✅ To-Do: Reminders, Things 3

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iPhone 15 Pro Max - Thoughts

Friday, October 27, 2023

The 15 Pro Max seems (as of iOS 17.2 Beta)to run more warm then my previous iPhones. Definitely more noticeable to me than I ever remember with the 14 Pro Max. Titanium finish is fantastic. In fact, the feel of the device was so good, I decided to go case-less for a bit, and ended up dropping my phone on cement almost immediately after making this decision.1 The 15 Pro Max weight differences (and re-balancing of the device) are significant.

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