SQUEEZING THE APPLE FOR ALL ITS JUICE

It’s 2025, and I run a Mid 2012 MacBook as my daily driver with macOS Ventura installed on it.

Why? With recent Apple products priced out of my range, I can’t justify a new or even official Apple Refurbished laptop right now as I look for an engineering role, and especially not when I can use my engineering brain to find a solution.

At this point in my life, my brain is Mac-mapped. Besides my 2012 MacBook Pro, I also have a 2013 iMac (running macOS Sonoma). A few years ago I was looking to update my iMac so that the security updates would be current and I would be able to run the most recent versions of applications. Apple said, “Nah, buy a new computer, cheapskate.” “Um, excuse me? OK then, challenge accepted.” I thought, what can I do with what I got? There’s no way I’m just going to go along with Apple’s planned obsolescence.

APOLIS

This past month I’ve been very busy. I dove head first into an open source, greenfield project that sounded like it would make an immediate improvement in peoples’ work helping a vulnerable part of our community.

The Harry Tompson Center in New Orleans provides crucial day services for unhoused folks. Every year they facilitate 35,000 visits for over 4,000 unique individuals. With those numbers, their clipboard management process couldn’t keep up.