Category: Blog
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Motion’s tracker leaks absurd amounts of RAM
When using apple motion’s tracker, even a few hundred RAW frames can exceed the RAM capacity of any Mac you can buy right now. Why is it doing this? Well, when starting tracking, it works nicely, but then it’ll just keep loading all subsequent frames into memory. So, if you have 3 lookahead frames set,…
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Batch scaling HEIC images while preserving HDR on macOS
My automated photo compression workflow broke because when automating picture compression in macOS, it somehow, seemingly randomly discarded the HDR information. Gasp! I had to investigate.
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PlayStation stops selling games in 2028.
Sony announced they won’t be making physical PlayStation games anymore. (e.g. on Blu-Ray discs). Now one could say that, wait a second, that doesn’t mean that Sony will stop selling games, given that most game “sales” are already “digital”, but I think it does. While I have a collection of physical PS4 and PS5 games,…
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For some reason, moving windows happens at half frame rate on the Apple Studio Display XDR.
I know I’m kind of hypersensitive. That’s why I have a Studio Display XDR in the first place. Everything is noticeably smoother and more responsive at 120hz over 60hz. (display refreshing 120 times a second, over 60 times, as with my old LG 5k displays). When I started using the display, something was immediately off.…
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Honda is sunsetting their only EV and their best car.
Honda will apparently stop production of the Honda Prologue after the 2026 model year, even though it’s in the top 10 best-selling EVs in the US. This also means they’re killing a great car.
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Mercedes-Benz Had Peak Automotive UX in 2008
Great user experience doesn’t just consider the device and user in isolation, but also the environment and circumstances of use. This is particularly important in the automotive sector where distraction can be fatal and users need to be able to access important controls within seconds without looking away from the road. This is difficult to…
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Sometimes, premium consumer product companies can benefit from regulation.
Companies making certain consumer products often fight regulations. But I believe that in a regulated market, especially premium products can come out on top.
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CarPlay and the Age of Frankenstein UI
Rendering certain content on your smartphone, to be integrated with the car’s native user interface, leads to an inconsistent user experience.
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Why Apple doesn’t have a password sharing problem
We’ve all heard about Netflix and Disney+ cracking down on their users sharing account access with friends & family that aren’t in the same household. Why aren’t we hearing about the same for Apple TV+? Apple is in an advantageous position, offering much more than streaming TV shows. Sharing one’s Apple ID Password means not…
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Yes, I Do Like Motion Smoothing.
Motion smoothing refers to techniques that modern consumer TVs and projectors use to add additional frames in-between the frames. While users going to cinemas are usually exposed to a frame rate of only 24 frames per second, movie fans watching at home often have a choice. Yes, this is about an article published on Polygon.com…
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Cross-Progression Ruins The Sense Of Achievement Of Console Games.
So… this is in direct response to this article on Wired.com “every game should let you cross-save“ I’m sorry, but no, thanks. I believe, cross-saves can be detrimental to the game experience. Let me explain.
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The Deepfake Defense
With deepfakes, it will be difficult to claim that anyone has ever said anything, since any evidence of it might be fake.
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Thoughts on AI
Now that we have language models… great! I can just write this post as bullet points and you may simply copy/paste into the AI of your choice and turn it into a text that I’m sure is better than what I could conjure in an hour.
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Native Display Controls on macOS
MacOS supports controlling the brightness of attached displays via they keyboard. The user can even control monitors separately, simply selecting the controlled monitor via the mouse. I use that all the time. Unfortunately, macOS and Mac monitors communicate through an arcane, apple-specific protocol instead of the standard DDC/CI protocol. This means that only some monitors that are…
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WordPress again…
I’ve been using PageKit for years, but is unfortunately no longer updated for PHP 8. So here we go again, WordPress!
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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Product Lifespans
If the only metric for how long products should be used is how long they’re commonly used, we won’t be able to make longer-lasting products.
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Bait-And-Switch Loopholes
Bait-and-switch refers to the illegal practice of advertising a product or service, tempting customers to invest resources (time or money) based on the advertisement, and then changing the product once the customer has already invested, presumably to squeeze more money out of the transaction. The problem that many products that rely on software to function,…
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Why can’t calls on iOS just be muted?
So many zoom calls Simultaneous speaking Why no speaker mute? Tiffany McBride
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We need to find a way to reduce tire emissions already!
Electric cars with standard tires trade a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions for an increase in fine particulate matter. We need a solution.
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Why do people sell their data for digital, but not physical products and services?
Thought experiment: What if you go to a bakery and buy a bread roll for $2.99 and the baker says “you can have it for free if you give me all your family photos and the rights to analyze them using robots and sell your data.”