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Interview: Matt Birchler

Twitter: @mattbirchler. Author of birchtree.me and creator of Today’s Forecast and The BirchTree Podcast. What role does the iPad currently play in your life? And how has your recent move from an iPad Air 2 to an iPad Pro impacted your iPad usage? The iPad has been a big part of my computer usage for...


Home Screen: Sebastiaan de With

Twitter: @sdw*. Freelance designer and photographer, designer of Halide, and motorcycle world traveler.* Lock screen: I use a photo from Division XVI as my Lock screen (it fades in super cool), and sometimes photos from Halide users. I use Google Fi on my iPhone X, but it shows the local Dutch carrier as I am...


Interesting Links

Dave Nanian details how SuperDuper!, the macOS app for cloning your Mac’s boot drive, has been updated with APFS snapshots, which gives it Time Machine-like powers to roll back a drive to certain points in the past. (Link) Gamasutra has an interesting interview with Francois Alliot, the developer behind Reigns and Reigns: Her Majesty, a...


Home Screen: Matthew Cassinelli

Twitter: @mattcassinelli. Independent creator and former member of the Workflow team at Apple. I used to work at Workflow, and then Apple, and now I’ve left to work as a freelancer. I’m writing about technology on my own now, plus I’m available to work on other creative or marketing projects. Workflow changed how I think...


Interview: Riley Testut

Twitter: @rileytestut. Independent iOS developer, USC student. You’ve released a Game Boy emulator for iOS called GBA4iOS and are working on a much bigger app called Delta to emulate Game Boy, SNES, and N64 games. How did you get started with emulation? Around Christmas 2011, I came across a link on Twitter with instructions on...


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