My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4(michael.stapelberg.ch)

231 points by secure 1 year ago | 339 comments

I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet(getunplugged.io)

21 points by keplerjst 9 months ago | 5 comments

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)(blog.simbastack.com)

451 points by asenna 5 months ago | 127 comments

Blog post describing how the author used Gemma 4 running locally on a five-year-old MacBook to index a year of personal video footage overnight.

ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)(ahl.dtrace.org)

176 points by jitl 1 year ago | 156 comments

Placemark is going open source and shutting down(macwright.com)

546 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 128 comments

Tom MacWright's blog post announcing that Placemark, his bootstrapped mapping/GIS startup, is shutting down and releasing its code as open source.

Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival(amirsharif.com)

143 points by overload119 1 year ago | 104 comments

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix(tobiasberg.net)

334 points by TobiasBerg 7 months ago | 418 comments

A personal blog post about a MacBook Pro's right arrow key getting stuck and the high cost of repairing the keyboard.

How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop(unterminated.com)

551 points by tfvlrue 2 years ago | 257 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author transferred files off a 1994 Apple PowerBook Duo 280c laptop.

Apple Photos app corrupts images(tenderlovemaking.com)

1128 points by pattyj 1 year ago | 403 comments

Blog post by Aaron Patterson describing how the Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images imported from his camera, his debugging attempts, and his switch to another workflow.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook(tokyodev.com)

418 points by pwim 2 years ago | 299 comments

A TokyoDev blog post by Paul McMahon describing how an email to Tim Cook got Apple to remove the Activation Lock on his returned lost MacBook.

Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users(applevis.com)

352 points by devinprater 3 years ago | 69 comments

An AppleVis blog post arguing that Apple's neglect of VoiceOver and macOS accessibility means the author can no longer recommend Macs to blind users.