iCloud backup “just works” until it doesn’t — until your iCloud quota fills, or you decide that storing the unencrypted contents of your iPhone at Apple is a posture you don’t love, or your Mac dies and you want a …
You paste a Bash one-liner into Apple Notes for safekeeping. An hour later you copy it back, paste into Terminal, hit Enter, and bash blows up: command not found: 'curl'. The reason: Apple Notes silently turned your straight quotes …
You’ve tried them all by now: Things, Todoist, OmniFocus, TickTick, Notion, the to-do canvas in Reminders that you abandoned in 2018. Each one is great until it isn’t — the subscription jumps, the iOS app gets a redesign nobody wants, …
Pocket announced its shutdown in 2025. Instapaper still exists but is third-handed and feels frozen. Reader-by-Readwise is good but it’s a $10/month subscription. The self-hosted answer is Wallabag — PHP+MySQL, runs on a $5 VPS, has clean iOS / Android …
You’ve spent enough years watching iCloud quietly rewrite your contact data, randomly de-syncing one device, “merging” the same family member into three different cards. The fix is leaving iCloud and running your own CalDAV/CardDAV server. Apple’s Calendar and Contacts apps …