Mildly Parboiled

Allergy season is finally fading (at least for me), but today was the first time I had to turn on the AC in the office, and it was great to realize that despite the recent Wi-Fi ch(...)

#burnout #exercise #health #hn #life #mentalhealth #remote #twitter #wellbeing #x

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Notes for May 17-24

My sinuses are still giving me grief, but this week was much more successful at pretending to be enjoyable, at least. For starters, we watched Project Hail Mary, and it was every b(...)

#clojure #emulation #go #hardware #ipad #notes #weekly

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/05/24/1445?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Review Policy

This site has been around for over 20 years, so it was only natural that I would write about stuff I purchased. Those pieces became popular enough that people started asking me to (...)

#audience #meta #policy #reviews #site #social

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Logitech Combo Touch: Four Years Later

I think it’s time for an update on my iPad Pro M1 and, most importantly, the Logitech Combo Touch I got for it. Think of it as a long term review of sorts.(...)

#accessories #ipad #keyboards #logitech #reviews

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/05/23/2130?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

JavaScript

The ECMA - 262 Standard, ratified after Netscape and Microsoft (mostly) agreed to make JavaScript and JScript interoperable.(...)

#languages #programming #resources #scripting

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Swift

This is a stub to start gathering some resources on Swift, which won several of my personal awards for “most breakages between major releases” and has therefore not been something (...)

#apple #programming

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Apple TV

Apple’s Apple TV is the company’s media-centric set-top box, originally shipped in 2007 as a streaming appliance and now evolved into a hub for tvOS apps, AirPlay, and HomeKit-awar(...)

#apple #homeentertainment

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Rust

The language that helped coin the moniker Rust Evangelism Strike Force, and which is slowly starting to get to me.(...)

#borrow #checker #language #programming #safe #system #typed

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TIL: Noctalia Shell Lock on Suspend

This is a little bit of follow-up to my MiniBook X review – I keep using it routinely (especially when we travel for leisure) and love the little thing to bits, but I’ve been wanti(...)

#desktop #fedora #linux #niri #wayland

https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/05/20/2240?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

3D Printing

I bought a Prusa kit on October 2014, and have been merrily twiddling its various bits over the years with considerable delight, since it’s a nice, slow(ish) hobby.(...)

#3d #printing #reprap #slicing #utilities

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