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🔗 Idle Time » Blog Archive » I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD
Makes me wish I kept my old iBook. -
🔗 Fixing Macs Door to Door
Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.
Glad I got out of the PC repair game in high school. Such a fun read. -
🔗 Love Notes to Newton
Love Notes to Newton is a film about what a beloved (but short-lived) pen-based Personal Digital Assistant created by Apple Computer has meant for the people...
I find myself really wanting to buy a newton on eBay now. The black and white screen. No internet. :chef-kiss:
I think the thing Apple got right the first time around was data centricity instead of app centricity. -
🔗 iMessage, explained
This blog post is going to be a cursory overview of the internals iMessage, as I’ve discovered during my work on pypush, an open source project that reimplements iMessage.
I gloss over specific technical details in the pursuit of brevity and clarity.Would love the ability to send / receive iMessages to a server ala other messaging apps. Well done! 👏 -
🔗 dogsheep/healthkit-to-sqlite
Convert an Apple Healthkit export zip to a SQLite database - dogsheep/healthkit-to-sqlite
healthkit-to-sqlite is super neat. I now have an SQL-queriable db of my heart rate, runs, handwashing, sleep analysis, you name it. Even better - this data is all on device. Now to think of some fun queries...