Retreating Back to Simple Notes
Simplicity in computing. A few months back, with Evernote spiraling downwards — both in terms of product offering and company — I had tried to switch over to Microsoft’s OneNote app. Out of all the Evernote...
Computing
Automatable Management
If there’s any truth left to the cliche that middle management adds little more than bureaucracy and communication overhead to an organization, then Slack’s manager bot product should fix that market inefficiency pretty quickly. Status reports and work broadcasts are ripe to be automated and the future points to an eventuality of AI-generated...
Building a PC in 2016
So I finally got all my parts to construct my PC after receiving the monitor a couple of weeks back. I’ve built PCs for upwards of 15 years now, and every time it’s...
The Speed of Mobile is Too Fast for the Internet of Things
I’ve started to get into smart connected devices lately. They’re these common household objects — everything from garage doors to kitchen appliances to light bulbs — made “smarter” with embedded hardware and software which talks...
Geeking out on Keyboards, Part II
This is Part II of me talking about keyboards. ReadPart I for more context. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve converted to using the Kinesis Advantage on both my desks at...
Geolocated Breadcrumbs
There’s an under-appreciated feature in iOS9 that reports on the amount of battery used by app over the last week or so[1]. Casually browsing the list one evening, I noticed that the Moves...