Author: Joshua

From Apple Insider. Or, the only reason you had an old Apple TV lying around was to watch Netflix in the first place. I bought an Apple TV from the earlier generations and was extremely dissapointed in it. The hardware and software were absolute junk. The thing stopped working entirely after about a year, and…

This has long been a joke within the technical world. Friends and long-forgotten connections reach out for help with their computers. These days its more based around iPhones, but occassionally you get a question about some ancient piece of hardware that needs some love.  The memes that go around make fun of this. But I…

If you wanted to contact someone asynchronously, you sent them an email. If you wanted to chat with messaging, you both needed to be online simultaneously. Modern messaging is like a cross between email and instant messaging: you can chat, live, just like with instant messaging, but you can send a new message any time…

The Acolyte, a TV show in the Star Wars universe, comes out on Disney Plus tonight. I’m trying to avoid any spoilers and go in cold. I was so incredibly pleased with the first season of Mandalorian, and fell in love with Andor, but stayed away from other shows because of things I heard about…

I love to run, love to listen to podcasts and audiobooks, and love my AirPods Pro (2nd generation with Lightning). However, I’ve continually had an issue with them while running, where the AirPods have a pop to them with the sound. It’s intermittent; happens at least 50% of the time, and doesn’t seem to have…

Julia and I had a fantastic chat last week, and we’re planning on having her on the podcast next week. I love her thinking on being a designer in today’s world, and making sure you’re taking care of your mind and body. Perfectionism also showed up in my body. When I was at the height…

First, there are few must-play Steam games available for the Mac. That natural limitation would protect me from an ever-growing backlog and the back-of-the-mind burden that comes with it. Among those few games, fewer still are RPGs to keep up with. Minimizing my games-to-play and games-to-beat reduces my mental overhead. It feels like the time…

For years now I’ve had a habit of immediately canceling a subscription service right after I start. Sign up for a HBO Max (Max now)? I spend the extra 60 seconds and cancel that subscription. I’d rather go through the ficiton of adding it back in in 30 days then forget.  Thankfully most services I…

Over the past decade I’ve written a lot. It’s fun. I feel like I’ve just started to crack the surface of what I want to be as a writer, what it means to find my voice and have an opinion worth standing by.  To throw all that away for ChatGPT does not interest me. Does…

I’ve been scouring Content Management Software for years, trying to find the perfect system that captures everything I want to write about, and spits it out in a way that I like.  The perfect software would allow me to quote others, occassionally include pictures, look amazing (very nebulous, I know), and available on any device…

For my entire life I’ve looked forward to new gadgets. Sometimes it’s a notebook, a pen, a case, a backpack, or something else made of soft materials. But, more often then not it’s a hardware gadget. I spend far too much time reading about things like the Playdate, Rabbit R1, Remarkable 2, and much, much…

Unless you were hired to create a UX team from scratch, chances are you’ll have to adapt to use whatever software your company is using: Axure, Adobe, Figma, Sketch and so on. The one skill you’ll have to develop is the willingness to put as many ideas as possible on paper, and leave behind the…

I somehow missed this news last month. LinkedIn is testing daily games. I used to think this was silly with the New York Times, but games like Wordle, and all-the-things from Zach Gage, are so delightful. I see this working well. 

People are wonderful and complicated. As I grow older (I seem to be talking a lot about my age recently, I’m really not that old) I’m seeing less black and white in the motives and actions of others.  We have so much diversity of background, the history that brought us to the present moment is…

Recently I attended the wedding of a dear friend. As I watched, and also partook in the event, I loved that the event mattered because it marked a moment in the couple’s lives where other people saw them.  So much of our lives involves quiet moments, moving forward, doing things, and hoping we make an…