Back in 2024, I taught you about a free, open source app called Keycastr that allows you to display your keystrokes on screen during demos. It’s a fantastic tool to help your audience understand exactly what you’re doing when you’re teaching new concepts. Around the same time, I taught you about an app called Presentify, […]
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A Look Back on Macstock X for 2026
Every year, I like to reflect on what I learned or experienced at Macstock. My goal is to make it interesting for everyone, not just a “look how much fun I had and you weren’t there” post. It might encourage you to go, but even if Macstock isn’t something you can attend, I still want […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 5: Remove the Safety Net
When the microphone starts hearing your habits The last few parts of this series have been about the capture side of V3: the recording chain, mic technique, consistency, and choosing a book voice on purpose. That work made the microphone more predictable. It started hearing the same voice, in the same way, every time. And […]
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Security Bits — 14 July 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Texas’s controversial age rules for all mobile app stores will not be stayed while the law is challenged, but will remain in place while the court cases continue — www.macobserver.com/… 🇪🇺 EU revives […]
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The Cookie App: A Convenient Solution to Online Privacy — by Steve Davidson
Background — origins of “The Problem to be Solved” When our forefathers invented the World Wide Web, their vision was that it would be stateless — that is, static pages would be available for viewing through your Web browser. It was a unidirectional thing — information was provided, period. Coming back to a page would […]
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Bad Idea for My Macstock Presentation?
With just a few exceptions, like the birth of my first grandchild and a pandemic, I’ve been honored to be allowed to speak at Macstock each year. I’m a very confident public speaker, but for some reason, about a month before Macstock, I find myself doubting whether my chosen topic will be any good. One […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 5 July 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Microsoft is continuing to tighten GitHub’s defenses against supply-chain attacks propagating via the platform: GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any […]
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Bruce from Tennessee Explains CDPATH
Hi. This is Bruce from East Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with a quick terminal tip about something called CDPATH. The problem to be solved is that I work in the terminal quite a bit, and I want to quickly get into my project folders, which are largely in Dropbox. In the terminal, we use the cd […]
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Extend Feature in OS 27 Beta Photos Saves a Precious Memory
I wanted to tell a quick story of how OS 27 saved an almost great photo I took while we were on vacation in Florida. We went out on a pontoon boat, and I asked everyone to gather at the stern of the boat for a casual family photo. It was a fabulous, joyful photo… […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 4: Choosing the Book Voice
From repeatable sound to chosen sound The previous part of this series treated mic technique as processing. Not metaphorically. Literally. Distance changes tone. Angle changes sharpness. Height changes the balance of the voice. And once I accepted that, I had to make microphone position boring and repeatable. Same stool. Same mic. Same place in the […]
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