Apple

Customizing macOS for development

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So your boss gave you a Mac for development. Or maybe you bought a Mac to develop iOS apps. Or maybe you bought a MacBook because you need to develop software as well as look good at Starbucks. Unfortunately doing serious development using macOS is cumbersome at best. In this blog post, I’ll tell you how to *mostly* fix that.

Apple is regressing to their 1990s disposition

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It looks like Apple is going back to the 1990s and closing off their ecosystem.

Cult of Mac Book

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On a dare, I wrote a book called 'Escaping the Cult of Mac' and gave it away free on Github. It's seriously funny (and true).

35th Anniversary of the Macintosh Computer

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Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Macintosh computer.

RIP PowerBook

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This thing lasted me 12 years!

The future of smartphones

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Every technology goes through a series of reinventions as it evolves. In this post, we'll examine where smartphones are right now and where they are going.

An evening with The Woz

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Steve Wozniak (a.k.a. The Woz) was one of the keynote speakers at yesterday’s Fuzenation Technology & Music Summit in Kitchener, Ontario.

The dawn of personal computing

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The coolest oil painting for a vintage computer enthusiast (such as myself).

Some NeXT level stuff

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I managed to get some NeXT workstations this week from a former colleague of mine who also collects vintage computers. For those who don't know what a NeXT workstation is, it's essentially the UNIX system that became Mac OS X, as well as the UNIX system that Tim Berners-Lee used to create the world's first Web server using his new protocol called HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol).

Breathe new life into an old PowerBook G4 using Linux

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The latest Linux PPC distributions run MUCH faster on it!