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Allen Cheung

Review: Shift Happens

Shift Happens is a labor of love. The author, Marcin Wichary, quit his job to start the process of writing this book[1], taking 5–6 years of research, photography, design, and writing to publish....

Optimizing MacOS Screens

So I was inspired to write this post on workflow-centric computing from playing around with a couple of MacOS utilities recently: specifically, Aerospace for window and virtual desktop management, and BetterDisplay for screen resolution. I&...

Workflow-Centric Computing

Depending on what you consider to be the genesis of mobile devices, it's been somewhere between 1 to 2 decades since smartphones and tablets have overtaken personal computers as the primary computing gadgets—...

Follow-through

Do what you said you'd do. …that's pretty much it. That is: when you agree to something, it translates into commitment, so honoring that commitment—as minor or inconsequential as it...

Year in Review — 2024

Year in Review posts are some of my favorite posts to write. They're the encapsulation of this blog's namesake: to create the space for retrospection, taking deliberate time to mull over...

Raising Readers in the Digital Age

I still remember my grade school years. Immigrating to North America and enrolled in English-as-Second-Language (ESL) classes in Canada, I felt accomplished to just keep up with reading assignments, not realizing that they were greatly...