![]() ![]() It showed us, above all, that the Mac was back, and Apple wanted to do things right with it (even if their laptops were still a fucking mess with shitty keyboards). “Holy fuck,” I kept finding myself saying as I sat alone in my car marveling at everything they did. The 2019 Mac Pro was a total 180 in exactly the way it needed to be. They famously said they had designed themselves into a bit of a thermal corner with the 2013 Mac Pro, and apparently when Apple finds itself backed into a corner (thermal or otherwise), they come out swinging, and in this case they came out swinging with a case design that would be the envy of most any nerd.Īpple’s 2013 Mac Pro was opinionated and had a specific vision in mind about pro users’ needs, opting for I/O ports instead of expansion cards (not a great move), and pretty severely limiting graphics expansion capability (and really, all expansion capability). Pro users would have been content if Apple had just brought back the pre–2013 style tower and changed nothing else, but Apple’s too proud to do something that straightforward. It had everything we wanted and more (and appropriately, its price tag was everything we expected and more).Īpple didn’t fuck around with the Mac Pro. Even a couple years later SwiftUI is still very young, but it’s super elegant and exciting.īut whenever I think about WWDC 2019 I’m always taken back to that moment in my car when Apple started showing off the Mac Pro. When Swift was first announced I wondered “what will brand new, Swift-only APIs end up looking and feeling like?” SwiftUI was the answer to that. When Swift first came out I could see its potential but it was clearly held back by its need for interoperability with all of the existing frameworks that were built around Objective-C. Apple also announced a whole new next-generation UI framework, SwiftUI. ![]() I believe Catalyst finally got a name and was announced. Thinking back, the 2019 keynote was full of some amazing announcements. I kept the stream running as I showered and packed up and headed out into my car, and I just sat in my car in the parking lot to finish out the keynote. It started off with some neat enough announcements (like Xbox controller support for iOS and Apple TV) as well as some interesting trailers for some of the shows Apple was making. I overnighted in Ashland, a beautiful little town in southern Oregon.Īfter breakfast the next morning I went to work out and watch the WWDC livestream. It was a late Sunday afternoon when I locked up the mostly empty house and headed toward San Francisco to onboard at GitHub. Most importantly, I got our fiber internet set up (you wouldn’t move into a house before the electricity is on, why move into one without internet?), and I also bought some supplies and took care of a couple things the insurance company was bugging me about. I took care of a couple things around the house that weekend. Above all, I knew cognitively the house was ours and we’d soon be calling it home, but it just didn’t feel like home. ![]() I just left a job that I really loved, and I was about to start a job at GitHub, which intimidated the hell out of me. It was kind of lonely, and I had that realization that we were kind of dismantling our lives in a very short time. WWDCs as of late have been pretty damn impressive and although this one isn’t the one with the most surprises (that’s the one I’d have to give to WWDC 2014 when Swift got introduced), 2019’s announcements were incredible.īut I’m not necessarily sure WWDC 2019 is my favorite just because of what was unveiled it also occurred at somewhat of a crossroads in my life, and it’s left me with a lot of happy nostalgia.Ī few days prior to this WWDC I had driven up to Portland to take ownership of the house my fiancé (then boyfriend) and I had recently closed on.Īs exciting as it was, to be honest it felt kind of weird being up there in that house all by myself. Quite possibly my favorite WWDC ever is the one from 2019. With WWDC coming up in just a few days, I’ve been reflecting a little on WWDCs of years past. ![]()
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