Author: Joshua

I have ideas all the time. Most are fleeting and not fully flushed out. Some ideas are for things I want to write, others are things I want to say, and still more are creative projects I want to try. Recently I’ve started putting all that into Apple Notes. I have different notes for each,…

Failure is an interesting word. My brother and I were talking about it earlier today.  First, I love how stories get to the heart of so many things we wrestle with each day. From a recent quote I learned, attributed to Cassandra Clare: Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. I’ve found this…

Everybody’s dunking on Magic Mouse, meanwhile I’ve tried all the MX’s and MSFT mice, and always come back to it. Even prefer it over Magic Trackpad. From Stephen Robles on Threads.  I’m a massive fan of the Magic Mouse. When I’m working away from a desk I use the builtin trackpad on my Mac; but…

I remember the days of working in an office, nearly a decade ago, and can compare that now to working remotely; and the common thread through that is the value of my work has been tied to autonomy, clarity, and combined trust between me and my colleagues.  When it comes to the remote versus in…

Because of the types of companies I’ve worked with (mostly startups), and because of years of freelance with smaller teams, I’ve had the privilege to work with a ton of people since 2007. In all that time the biggest factor that came down to my personal enjoyment of the work was the people.  Yes, the…

A half apology is a little like half a balloon. It takes effort, but it doesn’t have much utility. Seth, as usual, nails it.  The opportunity for an apology is just that–an opportunity to demonstrate to the person you care about that you see them, understand them, and are concerned enough to extend yourself. This…

Apple Inc. will introduce a new homegrown app next week called Passwords, aiming to make it easier for customers to log in to websites and software, according to people with knowledge of the matter. From Mark Gurman at Bloomberg.  This was a topic with my cohosts on Ultra Pro Max a few months back. Apple’s…

This week we were joined by the fantastic Heather Corallo as she came back on Fractional to talk about finding customers as a fractional business owner. It was a fantastic chat. If you’re interested in being in freelance/fractional work in general you’ll find the topic fun to listen to!

It’s Ben Surtees, the original developer of Bartender. Twelve years ago, I embarked on a journey to create Bartender, a macOS app designed to help you manage your menu bar items. Over the years, it has been incredibly rewarding to see Bartender grow and become an essential tool for so many of you. Your support…

Over the last year I’ve started to share my thoughts on something before digesting what others think. It’s really fun! In the past I would hear a bit of news and instantly try to understand it through the lens of someone else. Taking a moment to write out my own thoughts first, then seeing what…

From Adobe’s new terms, according to 9to5mac: Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the…

Study consisting of 600 UK and US software engineers finds projects adopting Agile Manifesto practices are 268% more likely to fail than those which do the opposite. From the Engprax blog. This headline is catchy. So many of us have been involved in Agile projects over the last 10-20 years, and many designers, engineers, and…

If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of toothlessness sometime around 2030. From Popular Mechanics. A bit of a random topic, but I’ve spent more time thinking about this than is warranted. Seeing articles listing the ability to grow new has me wondering if this is…

Maybe you’ve been here before. You’ve pushed all your energy and effort into a project, worked your tail off for months on end, and finally came to the theoretical finish line to see the reward for your labor. Then somethign shifts, somethings changes. You pause and look back, and see the broken line leading up…

To see it all shift this way, everywhere all at once, is a bit like a complete solar eclipse. It’s rare and we won’t see a shift like this happen again soon. Seth on theatrical runs.  I’ve been paying more attention to theatrical and streaming the last few years, and am incredibly curious if we’ll…

Following up my last post about piracy, I’ve often struggled with this for myself. I want to write, podcast, and share things with the world. I also dream of a world where I can make a little side income off of my writing. But then I feel like I’d be another person asking for money.…

As a teenager I pirated a lot of music and software, games, and the likes. I’m pretty sure every other kid with any technical savvy did the same. As I got older I stopped doing that, especially when the software I was purchasing was helping to support my growing career as a designer.  I support…

I don’t quite know how to do small talk well. I’ve studied up on it and have a decent grasp of it, and can hold myself well for a while in a group. But it’s draining. I see the value, but it wears me out. Instead of that I just ask crazy questions. Recently in…