Andy Ihnatko is a word smith extraordinaire: “He used to be an impatient, Type-A kind of guy, with a hairtrigger temper. But the knowledge that he was personally responsible for tens of millions of men, women, and children dying or living the rest of their lives struggling against crippling debt gave him a center of peace and joy. His only regret was that he would never know the exact number.

AutoSleep is an iOS app for analyzing Apple Watch movement data. You wear your watch throughout the night and AutoSleep applies some filters and analysis to provide insights about your wakefulness and quality of sleep. The convenience of AutoSleep is that I don’t need to do anything other than wear my watch. There’s no need to launch an app or tap a button, which makes it much more likely I’ll actually use it.

Sure, I’m a little down on the AppleTV and the new MacBook Pro. But already in 2017 Apple has released one of their very best products, and it only costs $150. Street Cred I own way too many headphones. I have closed-cup, open-cup, noise canceling, expensive studio monitors, and cheap ear buds. I’m not an audio-quality-phile but I do listen to an inordinate amount of audio during the day. By my estimates I listen to audio a minimum of 12 hours a day and most of that is done with headphones.

I was honored (and a bit surprised) to be invited as a participant in the Six Colors 2016 Apple report card. If it’s not obvious, I think Apple is killing it with the iPhone. In other areas, well, you should read the report card. What I love about the Six Colors summary is that the responses are so diverse in what they care about. It also shows that you can be a fan without being mindless.

Really, what could go wrong here: the system would tell a male customer in his early 20s to order a set meal of crispy chicken hamburger, roasted chicken wings and coke for lunch, while a female customer in her 50s would get a recommendation of porridge and soybean milk for breakfast. This is probably the future whether we like it or not. Face and voice recognition is reaching a tipping point where documenting and influencing individuals without consent is trivial.

I still remember waiting in line for the first iPhone, nearly a decade ago. It was a reasonably long line but a casual effort by today’s standards. I had real excitement for a new device from Apple and not just an evolution of the Rokr let down. But it was also a little weird. I’d never waited in line for technology unless I was trying to return it. On that particular day my car sat in my driveway half loaded for a week long vacation to the coast of Maine.

From the “the future kind of sucks” files comes this update out of the UK. There’s now a company named for a SQL injection attack. I’m hopeful that the global economy will survive ; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;– LTD’s first public offering.

This is definitely worth a slot on any team’s slack integration page. Urban Dictionary Slack Bot There are variety of commands but I like how some are public and others are private to the user posting the command. This would pair nicely with a Snopes bot.

Another great summary from Brian Krebs. No matter which side you fall on politically, this stuff should concern you. The problem isn’t whether there is hacking, the problem is that we can’t even believe the official responses so it leaves a vacuum of information that is readily filled with bullshit. The public might also be deeply suspicious of hacking claims from a government that practically invented the art of meddling in foreign elections.

Katie and David were kind enough to invite me on the Mac Power Users podcast. We only talked briefly about DEVONthink. It’s always so much fun talking to the hosts of a show I listen to every week.