About 3 years ago I wrote a post about the very real possibility that my current 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar could in fact be my last Mac. I paid ~$2600 for it at the time, and two years later purchased an 12.9″ iPad Pro that I absolutely fell in love with. My […]

I comfort-ordered a white HomePod mini this morning. When I’m feeling stressed, I tend to buy things and eat a lot of cheese, and hoo-boy that 18-count mega box of Kraft mac and cheese from Costco is emptying at an alarming rate. Lucky for me and my cheese stash, another opportunity to therapeutically buy stuff […]

I’ve long been a member of the S Club—the “tock” cycle of biennial iPhone upgrades. My first iPhone was the 4s, after which I diligently upgraded every two years to the 5s, 6s, and finally the iPhone X. After that, I was thrown onto a different rotation when I decided to join the iPhone Upgrade […]

On September 24, I got an idea for a widget-making app. 8 days later, I released Scribblet, an app for turning doodles into widgets. It actually took a little longer than I anticipated; I decided at the last minute to curate some background images from Unsplash to include in the app and then quickly realized […]

iOS launch days are always a little bit like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory contest. Millions of developers throw their apps—er—hats in the ring, hoping that some combination of skill and pure dumb luck will score them a golden ticket to the top of the charts. And just like in Willy Wonka, sometimes the App Store […]