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CarPlay is Apple’s in-car infotainment system that allows you to connect your iPhone to your car’s dashboard display.| Tao of Mac
It’s been a pretty crowded couple of weeks—the most intense part of summer break: a few days at the beach, some in the countryside, plus plenty of walking and reading.| Tao of Mac
Bean was a rich text (RTF) editor for Mac OS X that improved upon TextEdit by providing word counts and better formatting control.| Tao of Mac
Camouflage is a simple macOS utility to temporarily hide all your desktop icons when you need to take screenshots.| Tao of Mac
The 3D printing world has been abuzz over the past couple of weeks with this, and after watching pretty much all the (p)reviews I could find on YouTube, I’m very curious to see what the final product will perform like, and how reliable it’s going to be.| Tao of Mac
Late to the party on this, but still…| Tao of Mac
vim is my editor of choice, simply due to the fact that I find it extremely efficient (and readily available everywhere).| Tao of Mac
I’ve been on a long-term quest to find a simple, fast, and user-friendly way to develop native applications for a variety of platforms, and this page holds the results of that research.| Tao of Mac
I wasn’t going to go anywhere near this because it is too close to actual politics for my taste, but Ben Thompson’s take on the U.S. government’s 10% stake in Intel is a great read.| Tao of Mac
I don’t think Apple understands how badly they’re messing up in regards to visual design in their latest crop of operating systems.| Tao of Mac
Scheme is a LISP dialect that has not just gone its own way (as is usual with LISPs) but also achieved IEEE standardization. With a focus on lexical scope and tail call optimization, it actually contributed many of its ideas back into Common LISP.| Tao of Mac
I’ve spent most of the past couple of weeks using my M1 iPad Pro, and have some follow-up on the iPadOS 26 beta that might be interesting. | Tao of Mac
I always loved Pez, and this seems like a wonderfully well crafted game. There’s a resurgence of interest in retro computing, yes, but what I like the most are “backports” and entirely original software created for 80s hardware…| Tao of Mac
SQLite is my database engine of choice for simple, no-frills stuff, and has of late become popular enough for me not to have to bother compiling it from scratch anywhere.| Tao of Mac
Most of the week was spent rummaging through storage to get rid of obsolete hardware and troubleshooting ISP and Wi‑Fi issues, so there isn’t a lot of interesting stuff to report.| Tao of Mac
Matter is a new standard for smart home devices that aims to simplify the process of connecting and controlling various devices from different manufacturers. It is designed to work over common networking technologies like Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Thread, providing a unified framework for interoperability, and has been backed by major companies in the tech industry, including Apple, Google, Amazon and others.| Tao of Mac
Steam is Valve’s game distribution platform, which became especially relevant to me when it started incorporating the ProtonWINE-based compatibility layer for running DirectX Windows games on Linux.| Tao of Mac
Josef Prusa dissects the current state of open hardware in desktop 3D printing in blunt terms (and yes, the headline really tells you everything). As someone who got into it back in the early, heady days of Maker Faires, this was a sobering read. | Tao of Mac
The SCM du jour, which replaced Mercurial for me, and with a number of followers largely due to the massive amount of projects managed with it (and GitHub’s rise in popularity).| Tao of Mac
A little language that can.| Tao of Mac
CarPlay is Apple’s in-car infotainment system that allows you to connect your iPhone to your car’s dashboard display.| Tao of Mac
The Tao of Mac is the personal wiki of Rui Carmo, featuring a technology-oriented blog, links to articles, several compilations of resources around various key technology topics, and a collection of photos and videos.| Tao of Mac
With all that’s been happening over the past couple of months, it’s been hard to keep a steady pace of hardware reviews, so this is going to...| Tao of Mac
The netbook era has come and gone, but I am one of the many people who miss small form factor laptops (12” or smaller), and I’ve found it so...| Tao of Mac
This is one of those times when I must say it is very frustrating that Apple not only killed the 12” MacBook but also refuses to make the iP...| Tao of Mac
In retrospect, I find it vaguely amusing that “doomscrolling” only really took off during the pandemic, because, well, for me it started a l...| Tao of Mac
I’ve been trying to use Blender since what feels like the dawn of time, but its notoriously opinionated user interface clearly hasn’t stuck,...| Tao of Mac
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a Debian-based system that focuses on providing enterprise-grade LXC and KVM management capabilities, and tha...| Tao of Mac
Stuff that proved useful to some extent: Resources: Date Link Notes 2010 Apr 12 N/A Two snippets to change brightness by simulating the righ...| Tao of Mac
My quest for high-powered ARM development boards has progressed a bit spottily over the past few weeks, but after almost three months of tes...| Tao of Mac
Strangely enough for a Mac/iOS user, I have spent a lot of time using Linux throughout the years, but mostly on servers.| Tao of Mac
Visual Studio Code became my de facto default editor (well, other than vim back in 2016 (years before I joined Microsoft) simply because it ...| Tao of Mac
After a faithful nine years of service, I decided to replace my Synology DS411j with a brand new DS1019+.| Tao of Mac
A very satisfactory week, at least on a personal level.| Tao of Mac
The launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 was a bit… underwhelming, to be honest.| Tao of Mac
I never expected to review this many keyboards in a year, but it’s Summer, and here we are.| Tao of Mac
Armbian is a community-driven project that provides a number of Linux distributions for a wide range of ARM-based single board computers, in...| Tao of Mac
This site has been around for over 20 years, so it was only natural that I would write about stuff I purchased.| Tao of Mac
As part of my forays into LLMs and GPU compute “on the small” I’ve been playing around with the AceMagic AM18 in a few unusual ways.| Tao of Mac
Hot on the heels of getting borg assembled to go into my server closet, I decided to get myself a Beelink U59 Pro mini-PC to use as a beefie...| Tao of Mac
This is going to be another non-Apple post, but for a good reason: As I wrote about the other day, my lovely, svelte and ultralight E111 die...| Tao of Mac
Following the MacBook Pro debacle and the current lack of prospects for desktop Macs, I decided I wasn’t going to wait around for Apple.| Tao of Mac
I spent a few hours trying out UTM SE (which, if you’re new here, is a just-released version of the UTM front-end for QEMU that runs on iOS)...| Tao of Mac
It’s time for another hardware post, this time about an Intel N100 machine–and yes, I definitely have too many machines at this point, but t...| Tao of Mac
The other day I was trying to use my iPad to do some work and realized that WWDC had come and gone without any mention of a single feature t...| Tao of Mac
As you may have read in the news, Microsoft decided to lay off several hundred people from Strategic Missions and Technologies and reorganiz...| Tao of Mac
It’s been a while since I wrote about networking gear, largely because I used to spend a good while working on it and that broke my disclaim...| Tao of Mac
Python is one of my favorite programming languages due to its terseness and amazing flexibility, and after decades using it I find it quite ...| Tao of Mac
