Filing cabinet
technology
Browse through a selection of essays and book reviews filed under ‘technology’.
Conscious eco-capitalism
Finding the the intersection between conscious capitalism, green capital and practicality.
Mastering Focus on iOS 15
With iOS 15 comes the most powerful tool yet to regain control of your space and time. Here is a head start on Focus.
Dispatch from Rhûn
After 100 issues of ‘Briefings’ it is time for newer, better things: an all-new newsletter powered by Buttondown.
Tame your tech
Some thoughts on how we can tame our gadgets and the technology we use everyday to enrich our lives.
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
The iPad-only experiment, redux
With iOS 13 iPad truly becomes a standalone device for everything but the most resource-intensive jobs. As far as mundane everyday tasks are concerned, for most people, laptops are dead.
It is time Google turned off AMP
Under the guise of ‘aiming to make the web better for all’ Google is ferociously pushing its pet project AMP to internet users everywhere while taking control away from both publishers and consumers.
Tim Cook: The genius who took Apple to the next level
Leander Kahney
Apple Watch Series 4
At last, a smartwatch that would make me look beyond a mechanical timepiece—except for occasions.
Lessons from building my first app ever
There are some subtle lessons one can learn only after having built a real world app.
The GitHub experience
On why I moved from Kirby and chose to build a static site with Hugo
What happens when our virtual selves take us over
One need hardly be a crusader against modern technology to realise that, like any tool, it has its good side and its bad. The trouble is that far too few of us are ready to acknowledge and come to terms with this fact.
Hamlet’s blackberry: Building a good life in the digital age
William Powers
macOS for physicists
On why physicists love MacBooks; or, the complete guide to why you should opt for a MacBook if you’re into science.
The trouble with Google Search
Google is getting dangerously accurate thanks to some fearful, privacy-invasive features that promise to skew our individual visions of the world.
On entropy, randomness and shuffling a playlist
Randomness is a surprisingly physical idea.
Installing gnuplot on macOS
A quick—and popular, if Google is to be believed—guide to installing gnuplot on macOS.
