The void is my friend.
It has been a minute since I did my best tech blogger impression so I thought Apple’s annual developer conference keynote was as good of a topic as any to stretch that muscle a bit.
I’ll arrange these topics in the order the keynote presented them. The keynote is available here.
Continue reading “WWDC 2024 Keynote Thoughts”
My original plan early in the week was to write a blog post about 40 years of Mac and my history with the Mac. A bit of waxing nostalgic about computers from my past along with thoughts about the Mac as it stands now. I even had a whole bit planned where I talked about the McIntosh apple and what an apple cultivar is as a way to introduce the topic.
Continue reading “Apple and the DMA: Sheer Contempt and Malicious Compliance”After updating two of my iOS devices to iOS 17.1 I noticed some odd DNS queries coming from these devices in my local DNS resolver’s logs.
Oct 29 21:05:54 dnsmasq[1711]: query[A] basejumper.apple.com from 10.0.0.126
Oct 29 21:05:54 dnsmasq[1711]: cached basejumper.apple.com is NODATA-IPv4The odd thing here is that basejumper.apple.com does not resolve to anything. All A/AAAA/HTTPS queries for the name return a NOERROR empty response. So what is this endpoint?
Continue reading “The Curious Case of basejumper.apple.com”Humans have used various tools throughout the ages to augment our long term memories. We painted on cave walls, we wrote on stone tablets, we wrote on parchment & paper, we painted some more, we put our memories into song, we took photographs, we recorded videos, we told our stories to our children as a form of generational memory augmentation.
Continue reading “These Memories of Ours”Were these always 2 hours long? This one felt longer than the usual Apple keynote but maybe that’s just me misremembering. Or maybe I’m getting too old for these tech keynotes.
Anyways, let’s get into it.
Continue reading “Thoughts on the Apple WWDC 2023 keynote”