Firefox recently introduced a redesigned icon to match the other squircles now prominent on macOS. I’m not a fan of this particular design trend, and appreciated that Firefox hadn’t given in.

Well, they gave in recently. c’est la vie.

In the year 2022 of our Lord, the medical systems in America continue to frustrate patients and their caregivers by exposing the internal complexities of patient data storage and interchange formats.

Today, I’m going to share a story about viewing DICOM images on macOS.

Historically, it has always been pretty easy to run a macOS beta beside a released version. Admittedly, it’s been a few years for me, though. This year, I’ve been playing with a macOS app and a friend of mine reported a couple of glitches, so I wanted to try and fix those up.

Over the last couple years, my music listening habits have changed (among so many other things). I started wanting something different than algorithmic suggestions that my music subscription provides. I wanted something that felt more (a)live. I missed feeling like I was participating in something that was bi-directional and happening right now.

I realized I missed listening to the radio.

Instead of coming up with a New Year’s Resolution for 2022, I decided to try something a little different. I’ve had pretty mixed results with resolutions in the past, but wanted to make an improvement in my life. So, I’ve decided to focus on an intention instead of a specific behavior.

While I don’t agree with some of the asserted conclusions, the core of this essay is really solid.

A newer version of this article was written in 2023. It includes new details about my local storage and some more general details.

Static 2.1 is now available on the App Store. Here’s what’s new.

Back in 2013, I released an app called Static for iOS. It was a basic white noise app, with a few different sound choices. It had a very opinionated interface, complete with an era-appropriate speaker grill artwork.

While setting up Christmas decorations this past weekend, one of the kids^[1] suggested we connect the lights in a set of village buildings to Siri. My instinct was to grab a few more Z-Wave outlet plugs from Amazon, but I remembered having an outlet controller stashed away somewhere that I’d used for a similar purpose a few years back.