Tim Cook might be the biggest public figure of Apple, but for this publicity stunt for Severance where he is visiting “Lumon Industries” headquarters, I wish it was Craig Federighi, instead. He would have done a better job.

Voting With My Money

Three reasons why I might not upgrade my iPhone 15 Pro Max this year, as expected.

  1. If Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods. I'm questioning my support of an American company like Apple.

  2. Because of Tim Cook's contribution to Donald Trump inauguration which is in contradiction to many Apple values and Tim Cook's personal stance on some social issues.

  3. If Apple makes a single change to their support for DEI program, following Trump's executive orders.

One of my past colleague is now a system administrator of a few IBM Z Series mainframes1. He is 58 and is the youngest of the team managing this stuff, the other team members are 62 and 72(!). It’s very hard to find people who knows about CICS, IDMS, Ctrl-M, all running on mainframes these days. I started my IT career on an IBM TN3270 connected to a mainframe running MVS. Good memories.

  1. Yep, the world still runs mainframes. ↩︎

After nearly abandoning the idea, because it was too complicated to choose from the many different keyboards, today I ordered this mechanical keyboard1 for two reasons: semi-retro look with the wooden sides and the sound of the typing experience. A mechanical keyboard from Keychron

  1. Keychron K2 HE. ↩︎

Since moving into our temporary apartment, we’ve been relying entirely on the Apple TV for our “TV content” consumption. One takeaway is the realization that more than ever the TV experience is utterly fragmented, hence de proliferation of “TV” apps. The home screen of the Apple TV