Author: cjwl

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MacBook Pro A2289 repair for dead machine

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TLDR; Rossman Repair Group was able to fix an A2289 13” MacBook Pro for less money than Apple and without losing data. I post this in hopes it helps someone else. We purchased a new 2020 13” MacBook Pro in August of 2020 for my wife to use. It was extremely well taken care of, used at home, she used a keyboard protector, only used the Apple provided power adapter and it had generally light use of mostly web browsing and streaming videos. Two years later the laptop went to France for a vacation – we rarely bring laptops on…

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What’s old is new

cjwl

I registered the objc.net domain back in 2000 and set up a blog using the Blogger service. My goal at the time was to establish some sort of Apple developer audience as a prelude to releasing my open source project Cocotron. I don’t know how much the blog achieved of the goal, maybe the audience was only one person, but ultimately the release of Cocotron would successfully alter the course of my professional career in the intended way, i.e. improve it. I largely gave up on blogging when I started using Twitter in 2008, I was able to connect with…