Maybe I drank the cool-aid, but I like the corners on my Mac, and it took a lot of empathy from me to accept “the other” authors filing job, but this looks beautiful.<p>Thanks to both authors for sharing the work!
I love the animation on the background of your website.
And I totally understand what you mean about using a tool, if it's too delicate to do the job, then it's not doing its job. Imagine buying a hammer and trying to keep it clear of scuffs, it's obviously going to impede your work.
Yeah I think the grief OP was getting over that statement in some of the other comments is unwarranted, I understand completely what they mean about tools. You have people who buy expensive guitars and barely play them for fear of scuffing them for example, depriving themselves and the tool of the thing it's actually for. I'll never understand that mentality.<p>I don't like to be precious about my tools either, scratches and so on are evidence it's being used for what it's made for!
I bought a 1973 Fender Jazzmaster that was immaculate and should have been my forever guitar. I was so afraid of "ruining the value" that I sold it. I couldn't play it, I was so paranoid. It got into my head. Instead, I ended up buying a '65 AVRI Jazzmaster body and put on an EGC aluminum neck and a Tuffset bridge. The price was about 2/3 of the vintage one, but I have no qualms about playing this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for the encouragement, glad you like the background :-) Yeah I phrased it a bit badly initially. But what I meant was pretty much what you stated!
yes I want a post about that background, its pretty awesome how it gradually and seemingly randomly builds itself.
Great article and happy to see that I'm not alone. I don't get why on such a well thought-out and built device as this, the corners are so sharp.<p>From how I use the trackpad, the bottom of my thumb always feels sore-ish after a day's work and it took me a while to trace this to the sharp cornern of my macbook.
I would just like to say that with this page open I have ~15% utilization on my GPU. XD
This is my number one complaint about the M-series MBP line. Especially true of the cutout in the middle that has points so sharp they can cut you if you accidentally scrape it with your hand.
Related: <i>Filing the corners off my MacBooks</i> (1406 points, 3mos ago, 678 comments) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724352</a>
Yeah the sharp edges have bothered me since they started with the unibody. Luckily I'm completely off Mac these days. But really the last mac I enjoyed using was my powerbook. It had really nice plastic gaskets for the edges, a keyboard with really good travel and cupped keys, it was wonderful.<p>I got a plastic MacBook eventually which I filed down too because the edges were really sharp there. And plastic is easy to file. Also replaced the screen with a matte version, on the plastic MacBook that was also easy because the screens were readily available and there was no glass overlay.<p>Then I had a unibody MBP 15" matte. Less sharp and with off factory matte display. Not great keyboard though.<p>The current MBP I find abhorrent. Even after they switched from the horrible butterfly mistake the travel is still way too shallow. I just can't work with that anymore. These days I just don't buy laptops anymore. Only desk PCs.
> The moment I am too scared to do something because I might damage the tool, it stops being a tool.<p>What? You can damage even the most robust and simple tool by using it wrongly or inattentively.
<a href="https://a.co/d/0hXtPRfC" rel="nofollow">https://a.co/d/0hXtPRfC</a><p>Amazon link to a debuting tool. It uses sharp harder metal to cut off sharp metal edges.
Good to see a recognition that power tools are powerful. Too many amateur videos of people experimenting without nearly enough control and messing up projects
looks great! not shade to the other guy, but your job is so much nicer looking
Brave to do this on a blue color MacBook - curious how the filed area will look compared to the rest of the body after some time.
Now try modifying the software that Apple sold you with it.
Yeah that's been a major headache. I ssh into my server/desktop most of the time anyways, so there is no friction there. Then also I was surprised by how well VMs with OrbStack on Mac run. With yabai and skhd I've gotten it pretty closely to where I previously was with i3.<p>Even still, I'm looking forward to the day where I can run Asahi on this
Three employers in a row insisted on handing me a macbook, and three times in a row I ported Gentoo to it out of pure spite and disdain for third parties trying to control the binaries I use to do my job.<p>At the time they called this crazy and unproductive, but those obsessions with control of my tools built the foundational skillsets that drove my career.
If you struggle with Yabai I'll reccomend Aerospace, which I think is more performant & reliable.
They don't document the hardware, but it is possible to run unsigned code on the SoC - that's how the Asahi Linux project is able to exist.
another example: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/s.ly/post/3mlo7ajrqdk2o" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/s.ly/post/3mlo7ajrqdk2o</a>
Jesse Vincent used a deburring tool.
Get one of these:<p><a href="https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm?variant=39792498049106" rel="nofollow">https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm?variant=397924980491...</a><p>Pricey, but the lip covers the edge. My current one is 4 years old and lasted a couple of generations of Macbooks.
The Helm is great. I'm not sure it really solves the wrists problem, at least for me since for how I use it the height of the laptop makes a huge difference in ergonomics. The MacBook Pro is already tall, and the Helm makes it taller, creating pressure on the wrists. Meanwhile I don't have this problem on my carry everywhere MacBook Air since it's so thin.
"The moment I am too scared to do something because I might damage the tool, it stops being a tool"<p>That's just not the definition of the word "tool" at all but okay... whatever
Sorry you did not like that part! All I was trying to express was that even though this thing is nice and shiny, it is a tool in the end so if modifying it would make it serve that purpose better, one should not be scared to do so. I wasn't trying to give a definition, but perhaps I should rephrase that. Thanks!
Calling it a tool is fine.<p>Some people would like to pretend means of production are holy assets you're supposed to value and trade (INVEST!!! making value is for losers and _these_ workers), when it's just a consummable that should serve a purpose right now.<p>A computer is a tool and customizing the case is not unheard of.<p>Thank you for desmystifying the Mac.
Users know best.
It made sense to me. If you're to scared to use it without limits, then it is not useful for the scope of its intended purpose.
It implies that it stops being a usable tool. It's still the same item, but it isn't able to be used as such.