As a perennial non-Apple-person I pushed myself to confront the idea that if I want to develop for Apple platforms (and I do), I should be comfortable with their devices and probably own one, so that I can experience my software in the way my intended users will.

So I bought a Macbook, cheap with a smashed screen, in order to cut off its head and use it as a build machine.

I wrote about it, it got long, I don't know who if anybody has the time or inclination to read about such things, but here it is...