My Mac History
Which Macs have I owned? Apple IIe—I was born in 1980, the computer was introduced in 1983; I’m not sure when my parents acquired the machine, but it was basically…
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Note on Core Data concurrency
After enabling the CoreData concurrency debug argument, -com.apple.CoreData.ConcurrencyDebug 1, I quickly learned that I was doing everything wrong with the new concurrency model. So here are my notes on what’s…
iPad Air has the best screen size to weight ratio on the market
Early this year I gathered some statistics for the screen size to weight ratio of many of the tablets on the market at the time. The central idea with this…
Superfluous fluidity
Via John Gruber, Rene Ritchie is taking a poll on whether or not iOS 7 causes motion sickness. I gotta say, that I totally agree and I think Apple missed…
Vehicle miles driven per person is still declining
I really like the charts from Doug Short showing the total number of vehicle miles driven per person. The data starts in 1971 and shows a very steady increase in…
Fake engine noises make people comfortable
I was just reading a NYTimes article about how the Jetta Hybrid goes to great pains not to feel like a hybrid, but instead ’embrace the internal combustion engine.’ Okay, fair…
Screen size to weight ratio for tablets
After a friend and I were debating the merits of various tablets (iPad, Kindle, etc.) for reading and web browsing, I realized that there was a metric that I hadn’t…
Bike tax
The Washington State Legislature is has a descent new transportation bill in the works, but it includes a strange little $25 tax on bikes over $500. I wrote my legislator,…
John Broder followup
I had missed the NYTimes public editor’s followup to the Tesla battery saga I wrote about last week, but fortunately caught it via John Gruber. I’m going to quote the same…
Did John Broder lie?
John Broder’s recent account of driving a Tesla in the winter describes the monumental effort he went through to drive the all electric Tesla between charging stations, only to have the…