Password Managers
I have been resisting password managers for a long time now. For a short period I was using pass cli but the lack of a good sync capability made me abandon it. I also gave bitwarden a shot but it suffered from the inability to automatically save passwords from browsers/apps.
I have been steering clear on the dependence of password managers mainly for couple of reasons:
I didn’t want to pay monthly subscription fee.
I feel too much dependence on technology has led to degradation of brain sharpness/memory power1.
I used to remember/rather pride myself on how many of my close friend’s/relative’s number I could recall from my memory. But now thanks to technology I won’t even be able to call my spouse2 if my phone died.
Sharing wasn’t easy. Going back to point 1, where I needed a subscription to be able to share passwords with my wife.
Apple Passwords
Since the switch to Apple eco system, I have started to use the passwords in Apple. I was using passwords + locked notes to store information. And it helped dispel many of my password manager issues mentioned above.
With the news of iOS18 introducing passwords app, it completely won me over. It integrates well with rest of the Apple devices(which as an Apple user is all I care about at the moment).
I only recently started using the password suggestions from apple passwords, and I am concious not to use it for all the sites. I still choose my own password for sites where I don’t want to rely on the password manager (banking and finance mainly). I am however relying on the ease of auto completing passwords for sites that I don’t frequent often or ones I know I don’t need to remember the password for.
Sharing is also very easy, since me and my wife both are Apple users, I have created a shared folder for us to share the shared passwords.
The one thing that I was using notes was to store adhoc passwords, like pin number, passwords to laptops/devices which isn’t currently possible in the passwords residing inside the settings app. But will be made possible with the introduction of passwords app in iOS18.
I am getting more more deeply ingrained into the Apple eco-system that looking away is starting look just that much more harder3
Foursquare (City Guide)
Who still remembers this service? I last used the service back in 2016 and since then I thought that company had shutdown. I haven’t heard anyone mention foursquare since 2016 which also lead me to believe that the service might have shutdown. But it seems to be very much alive and running.
Currently my food/restaurant discovery has been through instagram via my wife. And beyond that it is Google maps or more recently Apple Maps(Yelp). In the short span of time that I spent revisiting the app, nothing stood out for me to have app installed.4
Through the lens
