I resigned from 7-Eleven today. I spent the last three years doing roller-grill research at both Speedway and 7-Eleven. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to autonomous wiener dispensers and gambling with our lives.

Thirty years ago, I wrote the original Windows Task Manager because I wanted it to look and work a certain way. Which is exactly how I've built TMOG. I'm stoked to announce the immediate availability of Task Manager TMOG Beta3 for Mac, Windows & Linux. Download it for free now at

He's right. The last codebase I worked on that you had a chance to understand was MS-DOS. By the time Windows NT came along, you could be an expert on the scheduler or an expert on the allocator, but you weren't going to know fibers and OLE embeddings at the same level. Plus, I'm wired to remember what code looks like in the editor, so I've got to see it, and you just can't see it all. There's too much code for my context window. And in talking to people on the team much smarter than me, I'm not the only one. Eventually, your brain (or mine, at least) sorts them into specifics and generals. So I might know specifically how fork() works but only have a general sense of how printf() actually formats floats. It still FEELS like you know, but you don't.

Say HELLO to my little friend, Task Manager OG! I'm please to announce the immediate availability of the MacOS version of TMOG today; Windows support will follow shortly, so follow for the update! TMOG is a free application; I may do a Pro version at some point, but everything here is and will remain free. Get the beta:

Back in the early 90s, before the Internet, we had "Defrag and Chill". You'd start Disk Defragmenter on your 540MB hard drive, dim the lights, crack open a Surge, and just vibe while the little blue bars crawled across the screen like they were solving world peace. Forty-five minutes of pure, unfiltered anticipation. No notifications. No algorithms. Just the two of you, the gentle grinding of the hard drive, and the sacred promise that your Solitaire games were about to feel 3% snappier. This is MS_DOS 6.22, which I worked on, but I honestly have no idea who wrote defrag. Iconic utility though!