The average smartphone owner uses 10 apps per day, these are some of my favorites — There are nearly 2 million apps on the App Store, and many of the most useful or best designed can easily get lost in the crowd. Here are a few that I genuinely love and use nearly every day: Sorted (Free/$15 per year)— Schedule tasks and replace your to-do list

Essential software, tools, and settings to help you be more productive. — If you’re a developer who just bought a new Mac, here’s a list of everything I suggest you install first. Before you set anything up, check System Preferences -> Software Update to make sure your machine is is up to date. …

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(Hint: You do it with Rosetta 2) — Here’s what to do while you wait for developers to add native ARM support for the x86 apps you know and love, such as Homebrew (which should be getting support soon). Use “arch” to run commands in the native Terminal You can run x86 terminal commands with Apple’s Rosetta 2 by adding the following arch command before it: arch…

A few material things to make your quarantine life more comfortable — and some helpful tips so you can stay sane too. — Quarantine has been stressful for all of us, and if you have the luxury of working from home, your setup is an essential factor in keeping you happy and productive. Since nobody knows how long these conditions are going to last, it is worth investing some money (if you can…

Historical analysis and comparison of theories from St. Anselm and Ibn-Sina — It takes greater faith to believe that an unseen God exists than it does to dismiss it. This is problematic to philosophers and people of religion since you cannot physically confirm that god is there. As a result, early-medieval philosophers such as St. …

A lesson in basic macroeconomics, and why we can’t trust corporations to play nice on their own — Nothing in the economy is as simple as one thing making another happen. Inflation is simply the value of the dollar becoming less, which raising minimum wage does affect. Inflation is caused by adding to the supply of money. …

How filmmakers use deliberate editing and frantic camera movements to create overwhelming tension — Damian Chazelle’s 2014 film, “Whiplash”, is a beautifully crafted masterpiece that tells the story of a battle between two obsessive characters devoted to their craft of jazz music. On one side we have our protagonist, Miles Teller’s Andrew Neiman. An ambitious and arrogant first-year jazz drummer at a prestigious school…

I was recently working on an iOS app when I found myself in need of renaming my project. This can be useful if you ever need to make a copy of one of your projects to serve as a basis for further development or want to completely overhaul your app’s…