God of War was my favorite game of 2018 and I felt compelled to share why that was the case. I also talk briefly about 5 other games that I loved this year.

Holiday episode about some changes in forcing myself to make in the new year.

There are tons of good phones out there, but for the first time in years, my picks are not the most expensive phones money can buy.

This week I take a look at some of my favorite albums of 2018. Links to all albums are in the chapter titles so that you can easlity check these out on Apple Music if you hear something you like.

Keyboard Maestro is a wonderful app that I app for the Mac that I took way too long to embrace. https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

Some of us can’t seem to stop talking about the iPad, and I wanted to add a smidge of clarity as to why that’s the case.

I got my hands on a Google Pixel 3 and took some time to compare how it handles low light photography with the iPhone Xs. Long story short, I’m very impressed, and I hope that something like this will be coming to the iPhone in the not-too-distant future. https://birchtree.me/blog/pixel-3-night-sight-vs-iphone-xs-in-really-really-low-light-comparison/

iOS really wants you to add all of your video files to the Photos app, which is opften convenient, but can be a pain for people like me who handle video files that we don’t really want to be included in our permentant photo and video libraries. This might be a niche episode, but it’s a pain point that I’m running into right now and wanted to talk about it.

I picked up the 12.9” iPad Pro last night and wanted to share my first impressions of the Pro-iest iPad ever. 1. Size and screen 2. Speakers 3. Performance 4. Apple Pencil 2 5. Smart Keyboard Folio

Minor profanity warning on this one. The tweet in question has the f-bomb in it, and I do mention it a few times in the episode. The tweet in question: https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1063216386573504512 Nilay made this point on Vergecast, but the people who have replaced their laptops with an iPad are people who do fuck all work. The rest of us hard working people use a laptop, because we have real stuff to do other than send emails and fart around. Don’t @ me ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯ Wow…