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Joshua Wold

Changing your default browser

My browser of choice is Safari. This after a lifetime of Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. I switched about two years ago. Safari has a simplicity to it that I appreciate. It’s beautiful from a chrome perspective. It’s an incredibly elegant browser, and, at least until

Emailing friends versus texting

I’m trying to Make Person-to-Person Email a Thing again. If your message does not require immediate attention, don’t send a text message, WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, or other direct-message. Just send an email. I appreciate the intent here. But I find myself taking the opposite

Energizing versus happiness

I’m hoping to pay more attention to that which energizes me and less on that which enervates me. That which enlarges me rather than diminishes me—a vantage point I’d once lifted from Winnie: When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. I’m indebted to

Security questions

Whenever I get forced to add a "security" question to an online account, I immediately begin to rage. The reason being is that they add very little in terms of security, as the answers are often out there in the ether, thanks to our pervasive need to share

Car dependance

[M]ost of our communities have been heavily designed around the car, in part because of a century of lobbying and pressure from the automotive industry. It's obvious that more integrated city planning that doesn't heavily favor car use leads to a happier and healthier life,

Entropy always wins

Have you ever noticed that so many things in our daily lives often just… don’t work? How the years go by, and the number of things that don’t work doesn’t seem to be getting any better? My wife and I bought a fixer upper a few years

Time to hang up the keyboard

Toward the end of a long week I start to feel my body shutting down. It’s telling me I’ve spent enough time in front of my computer, that I need to pause and step away. When I was younger I could mostly ignore this and keep pushing. But

Apple Maps and old addresses

Amidst all the discussion of Apple Intelligence and timelines that slipped—or fell off a cliff entirely—I’ve heard repeated anologies to the Apple Maps fiasco years ago. Apple shipped something that wasn’t ready, and Scott Forstall paid the price. In the same breath I here the two

In the background

I don’t do well with silence. It’s too much. My brain struggles to focus on tasks if things are quiet. Yes, yes. I know. It’s good to let my mind wander and think. Processing thoughts allows our minds to think through ideas. That’s the whole point

Spring rising

It’s nearly Spring in Idaho and the longer days and increased sunlight makes so happy. It’s easy to forget what sun feels like. Though I don’t like the long gray winters, they make me appreciate the warmer weather that follows.