Monthly Archives: May 2018

Optimizing My Coffee

While originally posted here, I decided my other blog was better suited to my non-technology ramblings. If you like my writing here and/or are also a listener to the fantastic Reconcilable Differences, feel free to check it this post.

Apple’s MacBook Pro vs. Microsoft’s Surface Book 2

Juli Clover over at MacRumors has an interesting comparison between the flagship laptops from Apple and Microsoft. Like many of Microsoft’s computers1 as of recent, the Surface Book 2 looks like a good machine that I am sure many will find compelling and seeing the laptops stacked on top of each other really illustrates the […]

“I don’t know any actors, but I know an actual MBA”

This is a neat piece by Michael Steeber about the origins of “Simplicity Shootout”, a promotional video for the original iMac. My favorite part is how Adam Taggart, the guy tasked with setting up the PC, is an actual MBA with experience in assembling PCs. A winter break side job at Brown University in the […]

Precision Trackpad Support on PCs

In an article primarily about Chrome’s new feature that blocks auto playing videos with sound, The Verge made passing mention of the browser’s upcoming support for “precision trackpads”1 and linked to this Reddit. FINALLY! Does it scroll like Edge too? That’s the main reason I use Edge – it scrolls and zooms just like Safari […]