Brichter is the guy who wrote the app that became the Twitter app; he invented the “pull to refresh” thing you now see everywhere.
🤔 Chrome is Bad
Short story: Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on your computer, which bizarrely hides what it’s doing from Activity Monitor[1] and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn’t running. Deleting Chrome and Keystone makes your computer way, way faster, all the time. Click here for instructions.
Loren Brichter discusses how Chrome and Keystone slow down the computer.
Via Aaron.
Surprised I’ve not see this in my feeds yet. I’ve certainly noticed that Chrome can sometimes seem to hog resources and energy on macs. I mostly use Safari and Firefox.