Previously, in Fenix 8: reaffiming Garmin’s doom and Apple Watch Ultra: Yes, Garmin is doomed, I discussed Garmin’s future from a tech-investment perspective. But let me take it back to a more practical user’s discussion… using Athyltic over Garmin’s built in features. … …
Read more »(My previous entry): Apple Watch Ultra: Yes, Garmin is doomed Fenix 8 announced Garmin announced the most recent iteration of their Fenix line this week: the Fenix 8. Garmin makes great fitness watches and the Fenix 8 seems like a nice high-end fitness smartwatch. Many YouTube reviewers immediately … …
Read more »A few weeks ago, I was in Zurich and was reminded once again that are watch stores everywhere in Switzerland. Obviously Swiss mechanical timekeeping is a legendary though significantly outdated1, concept, but as I was jogging by a few, I wondered “Seriously, who buys these anymore?” Bit … …
Read more »On Hacker News, someone asked if people are still using Pascal in 2023. The responses were mostly of the “of course, Delphi!” flavor. But one response stood out to me, and it was bemoaning that the constant HN hype of new languages that ignores “boring tech” the industry is … …
Read more »(My new entry): Fenix 8: reaffiming Garmin’s doom Note: I originally drafted this for a small group of friends, But I converted this to a blog post because tech reviewers seem to think the Ultra fails to kill Garmin. This is the counterpoint review, with a software person’s spin on it. … …
Read more »Today marks yet another sad milestone in the COVID-19 fight, where the US government has decided to “pause” allowing willing adults to receive the J&J/Janssen vaccine “out of an abundance of caution”. This is despite only 6 people having clotting issues. In fact, the odds … …
Read more »I recently upgraded the family Canyonero to a more recent model. The old one was a 2009 model, so I decided I wanted a newer one with better gas mileage, bluetooth audio, Android auto, and other modern features. This car beeps at every possible thing that can happen during normal operation of a car. … …
Read more »Update: It’s been brought to my attention that I left out discussion of the contentious PS5 SSD technology. I should have mentioned it. Believe it or not, my intention here wasn’t to make a flame war. The demo looks cool, but I don’t have much of an opinion on it except to say … …
Read more »I told some friends tonight about an idea I had years ago: disable copy-paste for all software engineers and you’d improve code worldwide overnight. Cut-paste is still totally cool. Feel free to refactor and move code around. But copy-paste… well, it’s just deadly. Copy-pasting leads to so many … …
Read more »2015 is coming to a close, and although it wasn’t a specific New Year’s resolution, I was able to get fit this year. Here’s what worked for me, it may not work for everyone, but I hope it helps give you ideas. I call it “The Peter Drucker Way” thanks to the apocryphal quote of his “What’s measured … …
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