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Location: USA Utah (Provo area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C/C++, Javascript/Node, Python, Linux/Bash, Resume: https://coastalvectors.com/resume.php Portfolio: https://coastalvectors.com/software.php LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcaldwell1 Email: michael@coastalvectors.com

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I've been working in corporate environments developing internal diagnostic tools for hardware and automated work flows for build automation. I have enjoyed working on software that interfaces with the hardware. In my free time I enjoy programming games for my kids in Javascript.


Unironically, the Apple TV is my favorite Apple device. It does exactly what it says it does, is inexpensive, and has a good interface. It just works.


Apple TV is one of those apple devices you can't use unless you're "apple enough" -- you can't even set it up without having an iOS device to do 2FA.


Correct. Apple products are really not meant to be used as one-offs if you are otherwise in Android/whatever ecosystem.


I'm happily using macbook, and would not use it if it required me to use ios or any other device.


Apple TV is inexpensive and you hide it close to the TV. This one costs more than $3000 and you have to wear it on your face all the time. Masks work well only when we're alone or if everybody is wearing one. If not, they use to cancel the wearer from social interactions.


I think that is what they’re trying to achieve with the avatar and oled eyesight display. The jury is out.


And most importantly, they're not selling you with tracking or ads. You bought a thing, you get a thing. No BS. besides that, the apps all work and have fewer bugs, unlike everything else I've used like it.


It's sort of evolved to the "What's that Chromecast thing again?" for me. (Which I thought was super-underrated.) And I guess I could maybe upgrade my big TV which would be an absolute hassle and is perfectly good for my purposes--and might not even be better at this point. Not a frequently in my hand thing but for ~$100 and really nice, perfectly good.


And after years of neglect, they brought the one feature I really wanted in the Apple TV — ability to do FaceTime calls on the big screen.


Fully agree! Their "hobby" has turned into possibly the best experience in their lineup (from a UX perspective).


While true, my prized possession as a kid was my GameBoy Light that was imported from Japan. Other people had regular GameBoy pockets or even colors, but I'd rather have that awesome backlight. My kids still use it to this day to play Zelda.


He is my favorite of the restoration channels. I don't believe anyone comes close to his attention to detail. I wish he put content out more frequently!


The attention to detail is almost surely the reason the frequency of new videos is low. Meanwhile, I'm getting my machining fix with Inheritance Machining

https://www.youtube.com/@InheritanceMachining


Interesting. I had the opposite outcome. I didn't like how Pixelmator reinvented the wheel as far as interface goes. I felt like Affinity Photo was a much better lateral transition from Photoshop for my needs. I bought both though mostly to support them. I'm glad we have options that aren't Adobe. I just can't abide the idea of licensing software in perpetuity.



Funny. I thought the shorter focal length made his face look more interesting and features look nicer whereas the 200mm lens made his face look like a big block with no definition and large neck. Crazy how subjective something like that can be!


I live in So California, and people around here always talk about black widows, and are always surprised to learn of the existence of brown widows.

I find this odd because I never see black widows around my house, but there are easily a dozen brown widows coming out at night around the base of the outside of my house. Pointy egg-sacks everywhere...


My current OS actually stems back from the Public Beta that I ran on my G3. I've cloned the data from HDD to HDD/Computer to Computer and upgraded the OS every time, and it's currently on El Capitan (because my Mac Pro is no longer supported). I've never run into issues during an upgrade.


You surely must have done the "transfer my settings and apps" on the PPC->Intel transition. I can't imagine the HDD clone method working through the architecture change. Still, I'm impressed that settings haven't borked anything since then. There have to be a lot of stale plist values that aren't used any more, I'd guess.


Oh, I'm sure. I've used the migration tool when going from one mac to another (Specifically from G4 to Intel iMac in 2006) which might clean some things out. Looking at the plists in my ~/Libray, I have some dated as far back as 2001. I also still have my MacOS 9 installed on my main hard disk :-P


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

I'm shocked that anyone actually believes this in modern days, but it's a fun thing to fantasize about.

There is a fictional series about hollow earth called Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs that I enjoyed immensely. A fun read, not unlike Tarzan.


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