The Mac Pro was a solution to an Intel problem, which makes it redundant in the Apple Silicon ecosystem. — You know that big, heavy cheese grater thing that also used to look like a trashcan? The one you can buy a set of four wheels for the modest price of just 850 euros, and you could add another TB of storage for the low-low price of just 690 bucks…

And guess what? It’s even cheap… A balanced review of LEGO’s Iconic Chess Set. — Nope. Not a hyperbole. Not clickbait. I can’t think of a single LEGO set that has better play value than the #40174 Iconic Chess Set. You see, what very commonly happens is that you buy a LEGO set, you build it and then you either display it or break it…

Apple Silicon has transformed the Macs, but also some of its fans... — For what it’s worth, I will admit that at times I have exhibited some bias towards Apple products. I can’t say I ever felt like an Apple apologist, but to an outsider I realise I might look like one at times. What few understand, however, is that, I wasn’t always…

Unsurprisingly, the math checks out. It’s also a great filter… — Perhaps I made a bit of a name for myself for “hating on short-form”. Perhaps I was too harsh. Or perhaps my view on short-form is just that — my view — and it does not represent a universal truth. Can truth even be universal? Is Universal Studios universal? Feck…

How does Apple’s 2022 MacBook Air and 2023 MacBook Pro stack up against each other? — One of my greatest fears in life is buyer’s remorse. I shit you not, for me, it’s a super stressful feeling, gut-wrenching, keeps me up at night experience. An emotionally mutilating ordeal that I avoid at all cost. And I know, in today’s world, in most countries with consumer laws…

You may as well just ignore the “new features” Apple enabled on the HomePod minis. — Apple. The company we love and love to hate, and when we do hate, we do it with more passion than ever. But let’s be frank for a second. Blind trust in a business is never a good idea. Perhaps in an ideal world it might work, but the one…

A climate change defying review of the 2023 LEGO Snow Groomer, set #42148. — Who needs a shovel, when you can use a snow groomer. I had no clue that’s what they called them. I mean, I guess you’re grooming snow, though it doesn’t feel aggressive enough for what you’re actually using these machines for. I would not want to be run over by…

How to restrict React-beautiful-dnd to a single axis? The painless, up to date, still unofficial, but working solution in 2023. — There are countless things that I love in software development, and then there are plenty that I don’t. Being overly opinionated for no good reason is one of them. What’s even worse, is that often this opinionatedness transfers from engineers into their products or libraries. React-beautiful-dnd is one of such…

Both objective and subjective thoughts on what promises to be a great Apple machine for many professionals… — As luck would have it, a day before the official release of Apple’s new MacBook Pros, I was trading in my 16” M1 Pro for store credit, and the manager overhearing my plans to come back a couple of days later to hopefully find in stock some new M2 Pro…