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RSS ↗Nine Bar 1.4: Right on Your Home Screen. Now in Your Messages, Too.
Design · Life Hacks · Tech · Technology
Nine Bar 1.4 brings your coffee journal beyond the app with Home Screen widgets, a free Messages sticker pack, personalized drink recommendations, and a new way to manage…
20 Photos with the Hasselblad X2D II and XCD 28P
Photography · Travel
Twenty photographs from Europe and the Caribbean showing how the Hasselblad X2D II 100C and compact XCD 28P perform as a travel photography combination.
Nine Bar 1.3: Find Any Shot, Instantly
Design · Life Hacks · Tech · Technology
Nine Bar v1.3 makes a growing coffee journal easier to explore with search and detailed brew filters organized around recipe, shot, and equipment.
Coast Clear 2.1: Follow the Beaches You Care About
Design · Tech
Coast Clear 2.1 makes it easier to keep up with the beaches you care about. Follow your favorite beaches, explore dedicated Beach Pages with recent reported shark activity,…
Nine Bar 1.2: Faster Access, a Better Start, and Now in Japanese
Design · Life Hacks · Tech
Nine Bar v1.2 is here with faster ways to log your coffee, improved bean management, support for the Niche Duo grinder, and full Japanese localization.
Coast Clear 2.0: Rebuilt for What’s Ahead
Design · Life Hacks · Tech
Coast Clear 2.0 has been rebuilt from the ground up with a new UI/UX, Dark Mode, faster sighting reports, an Activity Legend, improved safety guidance, and a stronger…
Nine Bar 1.1: A Better Coffee Journal for the Coffee You Actually Make
Design · Life Hacks · Tech
Nine Bar 1.1 makes your coffee journal even better. The latest update brings smarter bean tracking, a streamlined Home experience, improved brew logging, expanded equipment support, and the…
Spectre iPhone App Review: Is It Worth It for Long Exposure Photography?
Photography · Tech
Apple's Camera app can create long exposure effects from Live Photos, but Spectre takes a different approach. After using it to photograph beaches, waterfalls, cityscapes, and sunsets, here's…
The Technology That Never Really Disappeared: Lessons from the Plantin-Moretus Museum
Design · Technology
A visit to Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum revealed that many of the technologies and design principles we rely on today—from fonts and typography to intellectual property and user experience—have…
From Dashboards to Decisions: Where AI Can (and Can’t) Help
Analytics · Data Science · Work & Leadership
For decades we’ve invested in collecting, cleaning, and visualizing data. AI is changing how quickly we can understand that information—but can it actually make better decisions? I explore…