I read Jason O’Grady’s comments (via Daring Fireball) on the keyboard backlight of the MacBook Pro with some surprise. I am the proud owner of one of these new machines, and his experience doesn’t exactly match mine. Granted – I don’t have a PowerBook G4 to compare against – I haven’t owned another Mac laptop […]

To mark the occasion of my 100th (!) post, I’m recalling some of the major points of wisdom I’ve accumulated over the past ten or so years. Not to brag or anything, but in spite of my slacker attitude and a recurring assumption that I’ve “known everything” all along, I’ve actually learned a few important […]

Update. Well I am a complete idiot. Of course I should have assumed that if I wanted to build something out of Darwin, other people in the past have wanted the same thing. I’m a fool for not noticing this page at opendarwin.org. The “darwinbuild” tool basically “follows the dark dependencies” for you. I haven’t […]

On the morning of January 10, I woke up expecting to waste a couple hours of my day scouring web sites and IRC channels for the latest transcriptions of Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote speech. It didn’t really bother me that it was not being streamed live this year, because every other year when they’ve tried […]