2025 Tools Audit
A snapshot and inventory of the tools I use regularly.
Posts tagged “reviews”
51 posts.
Best Vinyl of 2024
Reviewing a few special albums from this past year.
Impactful Books
A local developer Slack had an icebreaker post asking for programming books that impacted your career. I figured I'd share mine in a more long-lived format. Some are more timeless than others.
Hacker Culture Movies For The Kids
For your amusement, a compiled list of hacker-culture movies to recommend to 'the kids'.
Book Thoughts: Company of One
I think this can be a helpful book for those like myself who are contemplating work opportunities, projects, or a new company. However, the valuable topics brought up are much more about growth than the title 'Company of …
Framework Laptop First Thoughts
It has only been a week, but so far I am very positive about my Framework laptop purchase.
Book Notes: Dreaming in Code
I finished this book over the weekend. Here were a few highlights.
Video Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro (5m)
https://www.ruinedby.design
A Month with the 2019 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display
Previously on, The Great Monitor Search Continues. After identifying a need to get a new external display for my MacBook Pro, I first paused to see what WWDC might bring. After Apple released a monitor that I could not …
The Great Monitor Search Continues
TLDR: The LG 49 inch UltraWide monitor is pretty cool, but not very Mac compatible (specifics defects below). Next up for me is the Apple Store approved, 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display, which will trade screen real …
Book: The Common Good
I’ve been a long time fan of Robert Reich and particularly enjoyed his documentary Inequality for All from 2013. This year he has a new book, The Common Good – and I liked it a lot. Robert B. Reich makes a …
31 Days, 31 Products: Skitch
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Day 31: Skitch This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Skitch is a screenshot and notation tool from Evernote. With Skitch you …
31 Days, 31 Products: OmniDiskSweeper
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Day 30: OmniDiskSweeper This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. When choosing software for this series I particularly get a …
31 Days, 31 Products: iOctocat, GitHub on your iPhone and iPad
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Day 29: iOctocat, GitHub on your iPhone and iPad This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. For mobile GitHub management nothing …
31 Days, 31 Products: Reeder
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Day 28: Reeder This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. I had a bit of an RSS resurgence when I got my iPad Pro last year and my …
31 Days, 31 Products: Flixster
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Day 27: Flixster This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. We just had a great year of movies and 2016 keeps them coming. The app …
31 Days, 31 Products: Dash
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Day 26: Dash This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Dash is a super nice and clean API Documentation Browser. I use Dash with …
31 Days, 31 Products: Sketch
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Day 25: Sketch This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Sketch is a vector-based design tool for the Mac that is very good for …
31 Days, 31 Products: SuperDuper!
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Day 24: SuperDuper! This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. This is a timely recommendation as just yesterday I had a bit of a …
31 Days, 31 Products: Status Board
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Day 23: Status Board This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Status Board is an iOS app from Panic that lets you turn an old …
31 Days, 31 Products: BBEdit
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Day 22: BBEdit This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. There are lots of text editors out there for Mac OS X and I’ll be up …
31 Days, 31 Products: Vimeo
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Day 21: Vimeo This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. When it comes to professional video hosts, I choose Vimeo. Vimeo is a …
31 Days, 31 Products: OmniGraffle
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Day 20: OmniGraffle This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. OmniGraffle is a an app from the OmniGroup that lets people design, …
31 Days, 31 Products: Trello
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Day 19: Trello This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Trello is a product I’ve been using for years. It’s an online software …
31 Days, 31 Products: Postbox
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Day 18: Postbox This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Email apps can be a point of contention for many people. For me I’ve …
31 Days, 31 Products: Elgato Game Capture HD
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Day 17: Elgato Game Capture HD This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Elgato Game Capture HD is actually a hardware/software …
31 Days, 31 Products: Hearthstone
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Day 16: Hearthstone This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Everyone needs something to destress, something to be a friendly …
31 Days, 31 Products: Charles Proxy
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Day 15: Charles Proxy This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Setting up an HTTP proxy to observe internet traffic on your …
31 Days, 31 Products: OmniFocus
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Day 14: OmniFocus This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. OmniFocus, from the OmniGroup, is a task manager that embraces the …
31 Days, 31 Products: SourceTree
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Day 13: SourceTree This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. SourceTree is Mac OS X app that serves as a UI front end for the …
31 Days, 31 Products: Instapaper
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Day 12: Instapaper This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Instapaper is an app that let’s you mark articles to be “read later” …
31 Days, 31 Products: TextExpander
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Day 11: TextExpander This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. TextExpander is an app that expands text. 🙂 Seriously though, …
31 Days, 31 Products: Byword
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Day 10: Byword This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Today is kind of a two-for-one in that I’d like promote both Markdown …
31 Days, 31 Products: Today
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Day 09: Today This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Weather apps are probably one of the biggest category of apps out there. …
31 Days, 31 Products: SimPholders
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Day 08: SimPholders This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. SimPholders is a great example of identifying a small but …
31 Days, 31 Products: TweetBot & Twitterrific
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Day 07: TweetBot & Twitterrific This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Doing a two for one special today (Cyber Monday and …
31 Days, 31 Products: Duet
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Day 06: Duet This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Duet is a new addition to my toolset, one of the many apps I bought after …
31 Days, 31 Products: ScreenFlow
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Day 05: ScreenFlow This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. ScreenFlow is a best in class tool for screen capturing and video …
31 Days, 31 Products: Acorn
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Day 04: Acorn This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Acorn is an image editor for Mac OS X built with tons of love, from the …
31 Days, 31 Products: 1Password
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Day 03: 1Password This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Usernames and passwords are a broken system, yet sadly one we’re …
31 Days, 31 Products: Fin
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Day 02: Fin This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. Fin is an app for iOS that turns your device into a large countdown timer; …
31 Days, 31 Products: MindNode
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Day 01: MindNode This post is part of a larger series where for 31 days I’m posting a story about a particular product or service I’ve come to enjoy. MindNode is a tool for mind mapping. Mind mapping is a process where …
24 Hours with My iPad Pro
I’ve always been a big fan of the iPad. I’ve owned an: iPad 1, iPad 2 (which I sold to upgrade to an iPad 3), an iPad mini (retina), and now an iPad Pro. I’ve been pretty antsy for an iPad Pro since I saw the original …
Farewell Edge Cases
Cue the Journey song, Edge Cases is ending. Edge Cases was a podcast hosted by long time Apple developers Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch. Surprising unlike many other podcasts hosted by Apple developers, Edge Cases …
Star Trek: Into Darkness, Nitpicks and Plot Holes
This is Spoiler Country. If you aren’t ready for spoilers, you might want to skip this post. I haven’t even opened my M&Ms and we already got nitpicks. Why did Khan use his blood to save the girl and have the guy …
Panic’s Status Board for iPad
I finally got some time to play with Panic’s new Status Board today and I have to say it’s pretty cool. Status Board is an iPad app that helps you produce a visually pleasing status board to keep track of things in your …
Book Review: The Lean Startup
With the sale of ProfitTrain complete, my schedule has room for a new project. There’s a handful of ideas I’m working through, but, before I jump into one, I think that now is a great opportunity to catch up with some …
Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age
A must watch lecture from Lawrence Lessig about the life of Aaron Swartz and the legal battle that led to his death. Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age from lessig on Vimeo.
Netflix’d: Peep Show and Breaking Bad
When it comes to TV, you can usually catch me watching a mix of local sports. On the weekends, it might be some This Old House or Gordon Ramsey. I don’t tend to get into the episodic TV shows when they are actually …
Instapaper Gripes
First let me say that I really like Instapaper. It was one of the first apps that gave my iPad real purpose, and I use it pretty much daily. While the comments below might be negative and trite, there are tons of great …
Core Intuition
Core Intuition is a podcast about the indie software business. It has a strong focus on Mac and iOS development, including the vibrant community that surrounds it. Hosted by two long-standing Mac developers — Daniel …