BiteofanApple
Thoughts, and ramblings about technology, programming, history, and whatever else I'm interested in.
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- 341 from 12 Dec 2012 to 27 Oct 2026
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- weekly (24 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 24
- Drawing Boxes vs. Shading Them In
- From Chicago with Love
- Lanterns in the Void: Science and Discovery
- That First and Last Question
- The Medieval Origin of the Ph.D. Dissertation
- AI Usage Policy
- Gatekeepers are Dead, Long Live the Gatekeepers
- With Flying Pen, When Mortals Sleep
- What is Potential Energy, Really?
- Friendship is an Exponential Function
- Because it Speaks in Words
- Would You Believe that This is It?
- The True Expense Of Nature
- A Field Guide To Learning
- Why You Can't Write That Book
- Mailing Things Is Fun
- Take Better Notes, By Hand
- You Have Access To Almost Any Book
- Load-Bearing Walls
- An Age Of Promethean Ambitions
- Words Are A Leaky Abstraction
- On The Lies Depression Tells
- The Long View Of History
- Blogging, Writing, Musing, And Thinking
2025 16
- Maintaining A Music Library, Ten Years On
- Empirical Partial Derivatives
- Chemical Telescopes And The Process Of Science
- So Long Pine.blog
- Spoken Audio from Automator & NetNewsWire
- The Strangely Anthropic Form Of Natural Laws
- Your Brain Is An L1 Cache
- Trapped In The Infinite Honey Pot
- The Methods Of Science & Medieval Rainbows
- The Practicals Of Writing: Paper And Pens
- Starting A Newsletter
- Developing Style: Writing Cursive Two Years In
- Narrative Structure And The Principle Of Least Action
- Experts In The Internet Age: The Power Of Email
- What if: Bookclub, but AI?
- A Counting Meta-Post
2024 12
- Foundational Texts
- Science, Models, And Squeaking Lead
- The Mysterious Potential Of The Plane
- Nothing Throughout The Ages
- Running & Securing Servers: A Concise Guide
- The Joys Of Playing Live Music
- The Times And I Are Changing
- Podcasts, The Universe, And Everything
- Users, Tools, Platforms, And The Shifting Goals Of Software
- More On Handwriting & Cursive
- On Handwriting And Switching To Cursive
- My Favorite Books From 2023
2023 8
2022 20
- A Very Special Anniversary
- On The Web, The Best Outcome Is Email
- Daily Step Count & Walking Statistics
- Drawing of the Day
- A Drawing Every Day!
- Books & Reading Statistics
- Reading Milestones, Attention Spans, And Cool Charts
- Stargazing Pictures
- Step Counts And Goal-Setting
- Fun With Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence
- Whether To Monitor The Weather And More
- The Simple Joy Of Learning To Play Piano
- Crossing The Wording Threshold
- Using Pushover For Super Simple Sysadmin Alerts
- That Time I Lost Control Of A Server
- Hacks Can Be Good Code Too
- At Vs. On: A Story Of Semantic Data Modeling
- Generating Deterministic, Procedural Artwork With Pdraw
- I Solved The Same Bug Twice And Didn't Know It
- Take A Break, Script Something
2021 17
- The Road To Glass & Stone
- Nine9s Gets An Upgrade ⬆️
- The Internet's Original Sin
- Last Year I Started Reading A Physical Newspaper
- Automated Podcasts With Automator & Overcast
- Retrospective On A Year Spent Writing
- Grove, A New Tree-Planting Wellness Game 🎉
- Unbounded Possibility Is Bad For Productivity
- Imports Are Endorsements
- Easy And Ethical Traffic Monitoring With Goaccess
- How I Use Docker (For Now)
- Lessons On Variable Naming From Breakfast Burritos
- Building A Personalized Newsletter With Bash And A Raspberry Pi
- Why All My Servers Have An 8gb Empty File
- All Too Quiet
- California, Democracy, And Progress
- Various Goings On
2020 30
- Breadcrumbs And Pinboard
- History, Myth, And Talking Cows
- Arbitrary Achievement Unlocked
- A False Dichotomy
- Why I Don't Retweet Anything
- Programming Misconceptions
- Going Indie Is Out! 📚🚀
- Announcing: Hewell Public Beta 🎉
- House Judiciary Committee Recommends Interoperable Social Media
- Assumptions And Variable Names
- The Indie Dev Life Podcast
- Git Hooks For Fun And Profit
- The Little Engine That Could
- On Uber, Lyft, And Labor Law
- Two Is Better Than One
- The Fall Of Civilizations Podcast
- Novels And Insurmountable Tasks
- D20.photos: A Public Domain D&d Image Repository
- Careful With Complex Querysets
- Announcing Nine9s.cloud 🎉
- This Site Supports Webmentions!
- A Whole New Mac
- Why We're Polarized
- Spring Cleaning And Microformats
- An Uplifting Tale In These Dark Times
- Where It Comes From, Nobody Knows
- A Good Day
- That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use Macos
- Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story Of Finite Resources
- An Agency That Protects Data
2019 11
2018 21
- I Love Nsoperation
- Pine.blog Version 1.3: Multiple Timelines 🎉
- Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
- Mastodon And Microblogging
- Recommendations, Echo Chambers, And Pine.blog
- Code Lasts Whether You Know It Or Not
- Blogging Has An Image Problem
- Feed Readers And Local News
- Pine.blog 1.2 Is Out!
- The Scope Creep Is Real
- Pine V1.1 Is Out & A Special Moment
- On The Future Of Social Media
- Rss Has Already Won
- Pine For Ios Released!
- A Sneak Peek: Pine For Ios
- Announcing Pine: Microblogging For A New Generation 🎉
- The People Vs. Democracy
- Git's Hidden Feature: Notes
- Safari's Websocket Stream View
- Real Life Science Fiction
- The Web As A Social Network
2017 24
- Primitive Tech Is Here For The Long Haul
- The Fcc Moves To Dismantle Net Neutrality
- Mygenerank: Behind The Scenes Of The Newest Researchkit App
- Oauth Over Xmpp
- Todolist Update
- Mini-Rant About Documentation
- Todolist
- Accidental Devops
- Getting Back On The Horse
- Todos As A Templating System
- Climate Change And Guns, Germs, And Steel
- Adventurer's Codex: Xmpp
- Adventurer's Codex: The Stack
- Measuring Sticks
- Adventurer's Codex: Behind The Curtain
- The Cloudbleed Bug: An Overview
- Comments With Cited References
- So Many Words Written, So Many More To Come
- An Ode To The 13 Inch Macbook Pro
- California Bills To Safeguard Privacy From The Federal Government Advance
- The Internet Won't Forget Climate Change
- A Slight Modification To Gordon Ramsey's Scramled Eggs
- Manton's Micro.blog
- Alternatives To Macos
2016 30
- Sony Mdr Extra-Bass Bluetooth Headphones Review
- Youtube Has (Apparently) Reinstated Rss Feeds
- More Efficient Vbr Mp3s And Podcasting
- Tabletop Audio
- Primitive Tech Tiptoes Into The Bronze Age
- 18th Century Cooking
- Easy Refactoring With Source Making
- Latest Project: Log Linker
- Linode's 13th Birthday
- Siri Is A Blogging Tool
- Swift Dynamism
- Python-Like Context Managers In Swift
- Mvc-N And Services
- Imessage Security
- Re: Voting Systems
- Can We Save The Open Web?
- Overcast 2.5 Update
- Blog When You Disagree
- A Vision Of The Open Web
- Hosting A Minecraft Server On Linode
- Fbi Tells Apple To Create A Master Key To Ios
- Better Image Sharing With Dropbox
- What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like
- Smaller
- More Secure Pastures
- Re: Leaving Twitter
- The Invention Of Farming
- Horizontal History
- Why Privacy Is Important
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
2015 43
- No, We Are Romans
- Mvvm Is Not Very Good
- Removing Google Analytics
- Gitbook
- Software Performance In An Asm.js World
- Ad Tracking Company Using Audio To Identify Users
- Even More Re: Software And Engineering
- Disable "shake To Find Cursor" In El Capitan
- Why I'm Switching Back To Itunes
- Software Correctness And Software Engineering
- How To Save Your Team From The Evil Testing Demons
- More Pluto Images
- A Mirror For Posterity
- A Full Size Mirror
- Python 3.5 And Multitasking
- Python 3.5.0 Has Been Released
- Airplane Mode
- The Race For Space
- You Should Go To Spaceup
- Re: Yin And Yang
- Re: The Ethics Of Modern Web Ad-Blocking
- Blogdown
- Rewritten
- Hiking The Pacific Crest Trail
- Wwdc And Open Source Swift
- Software 'engineering'
- Python Multiprocessing And Unittest
- Microblog Crawler V1.4(.1)
- Pep 484 - Type Hints For Python
- Priming The Pump
- Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals Follow Up
- Patreon
- Roderick On The Line: Space Exploration Is Human Nature
- Microblog Crawler V1.3 Released
- Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
- Clarifying Structure
- Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals
- Microblog Crawler Diary: Timezones
- Elon Musk Is Crazy
- The Results Of Spacex's Attempt To Recover Falcon
- What-If: Pools On The Moon
- Fight For Space - Why Space?
- Time Machine Transfer Trouble Resolved
2014 77
- Time Machine Transfer Trouble
- Microblogger Wiki And Issues Are Live!
- Microblogger Status Updates And More
- What If Sending Money Was As Easy As Airdrop
- Dave Winer On Donating To Wikipedia
- Hypervelocity Stars
- Microblog Crawler V1.0 Released
- Star Wars Vii Teaser (And Thoughts On The New Lightsabers)
- Iss Livestream Now In 720p Hd
- Ursula K. Le Guin At The National Book Awards
- Philae Breaks Our Hearts
- Philae Lands On Comet 67p
- Obama "urges" Fcc To Reclassify Isps As Utilities
- The Mac Mini Server Configuration Is Dead
- New Parallel Universe Theory Proposed
- Twitter Is Not A Replacement For Blogs
- Short-Form Blogging
- What Is Your Blog About?
- Fcc's Tom Wheeler Is Trying To Open Up Cable Tv
- At&t And Apple Sim
- The Professional Sharer
- Podcast Recommendations
- Twitter's "peace Offering" To Developers Is Meaningless
- Making Rss Real-Time
- Site Transferred. Email Is Next
- Some Advice On Programming
- The Unremarkable Yesterday
- Thinking About Redoing My Blog Engine
- Balancing Work, Fun, And Work-Fun
- Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability Report
- The Open Microblog Standard
- Thoughts On The Iphone 6
- Space Junk
- The Trouble With Harvard
- Chris Radcliff On Twitter's Timeline Changes
- Casey Liss On Women's Experience In Gaming
- Brent Simmons On App Performance Tuning
- Why It's Impossible To Make Plans Anymore
- How To Stimulate The Open Web
- Numba: Compiling Python Using Llvm The Way Webkit Compiles Javascript
- Waffle, Brent And Marco On Social Networks
- Twitter And The Open Web
- Roderick On The Line
- Notifications
- Changing App Behavior Server-Side
- 10 Years Of Podcasts
- Book Recommendation: The Stormlight Archive
- Humans Need Not Apply
- Permanence Revisited
- First Person Hyperlapse Videos By Microsoft
- How The Other Half Works: An Adventure In The Low Status Of Software Engineers
- Into The Depths Of Python
- You Need Math To Program
- Letter To The Fcc
- Forest Through The Trees
- The Internet's Own Boy
- Re: Permanence
- It's Just A Phone
- Harry's Razors Review
- So I Went Flying Yesterday
- Multithreading In Java
- Nasa Streams The Iss View Of Earth 24/7
- Rocket Simulation
- Programming Sucks
- Csu Tuition
- Don't Blow Up The Internet
- Help Protect The Internet
- Pokemon
- Os X's New Look
- Roman Food
- My Ios 8 Wishlist
- Apple, Intel, And Matt Richman
- Bloodmoon Eclipse Photos
- The Nsa Knew About And Exploited The Heartbleed Bug
- The new New Cms
- If Only I Had A Podcast
- Microsoft And A Unix-Based Windows