There’s something in me that can’t resist poking fun at Monster Cable every time the opportunity presents itself. I’ll grant you that “Monster” is a great name if you’re starting a cable business but I don’t feel like it’s enough to justify their cost…

Last week Stephen Levy published an extended article on Backchannel about what’s going on at Apple with machine learning. A lot of us, myself included, have been wondering openly how Apple can compete with companies like Google at making our devices smarter when Apple’s…

I recently guested on the Command-Control-Power podcast, which is a show focussed on supporting members of the Apple Consultant Network. I was brought in to talk about legal issues facing IT professionals. It’s not the usual stuff I talk about around here but if…

Yesterday the Free Agents released its first guest interview show. Our guest was Relay.fm co-founder Myke Hurley. During the show we discussed Myke’s journey and his big surprises after going independent.

A few years ago John Gruber, Brent Simmons, and Dave Wiskus joined forces to create a notes app called Vesper. If I was setting up a developer shop, these three guys would be on my dream team. They made a great app with a…