Mike Williams

Who Would Have Thought?

Who would have thought a year ago that I would be married today and that my wife and I would own our home?

We just paid the first mortgage payment and there is a weird feeling of joy.

That rather than paying rent to someone, I am paying on my own property.

Sort of liberating.

Why I Love Home Brew

Home Brew is probably not what you think it is.

It is a command line tool for MacOS that fills in a lot of small but missing pieces. Things like PHP no longer come bundled with MacOS so Home Brew is how you get that done now. I could site many more examples but I think you get the idea.

The Home Brew developers are amazing. They have also seen many Apple release cycles. I find the following funny.

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It is funny because they have to say the words.

How to Turn Off Animated GIFS in MacOS Sonoma

It is the one thing that drives me bonkers. I don’t like moving things in my iMessage window but I also don’t want to delete the entire conversation to get rid of it.

Go into system settings and Go to Accessibility and then Display..

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…and toggle off Animated Images.

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This worked for me.

Media Bias

First, the Apple/Wall Street Journal version…

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Second, the 1440 version…

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Not difficult to see why I read 1440. Just. The. Facts.

No additional adjectives. I’m also showing my bias by not providing a link to the WSJ version.

Steve Jobs Goodness

This came by way of James Clear author of Atomic Habits.

An email from Steve Jobs, sent to himself, remarking on how much we all need each other:

“I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.”

Source: Email sent on September 2, 2010. Featured in Make Something Wonderful​