Monthly Archives: August 2022

This is Fine

This paragraph by Scharon Harding at Ars Technica made me do a double take. Regardless of what I put it through, the Spectre stayed surprisingly cool for its size. After an hour-long stress test, for example, the only part of the chassis that was too hot to touch comfortably was its underside, although the keyboard […]

What Does Stage Manager Manage?

A reader recently sent me a screenshot of macOS Ventura’s onboarding prompt to enable Stage Manager (as of developer beta 5). Here’s what it says: Stage Manager Stage Manager arranges your recent windows into a single strip for reduced clutter and quick access. Focus on one window at a time and create sets by mixing […]

A Relationship With Strings Attached

Ron Amedeo over at Ars Technica put together an excellent overview of Google’s RCS, and why it’s not the same as standard RCS. Here’s what Ron had to say: Google tried to glom features onto the aging RCS spec, but if you consider those part of the RCS sales pitch, which Google does, now it’s […]

Nightly Time Machine

Nightly Time Machine is a small side project I have been working on for a few weeks to make Time Machine more usable with my laptop. From my Github: At its best, Time Machine is “set it and forget it” in that you should never really have to think about it until a backup is […]