Brett records an episode without Christina and Jeff and chats with Melissa Davis (The Mac Mommy) about her start as a mommy blogger and longtime Mac podcaster, her tech-support work, and the strange lack of closure when online friends disappear. They trade mental-health and chronic-illness updates, Adderall vs. Vyvanse, difficulty finding curious doctors, and being labeled “worried well.” Don’t worry, they nerd out on mechanical keyboards, Karabiner, and remapping keys. GrAPPtitudes include Bartender 6 Pro, Sortio for AI tagging, Sketch Party TV, and Karabiner.

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Chapters

00:00 Meet Melissa Davis
00:56 Early Podcast Days
02:20 Tech Support Seniors
05:52 Digital Legacy Work
06:50 Sponsor: OneSkin
08:14 Mental Health Check In
08:34 Insomnia And Focus
13:19 Doing Time Tracker
16:04 Suspenders And Stenosis
20:18 Mobility And Home Hacks
22:10 Melissa Health Update
23:25 ADHD Meds And Mutations
25:25 Curious Doctors Matter
27:59 Vyvanse Vs Adderall
30:26 Tracking Mood With Data
32:27 Cane And Somatic Therapy
36:09 Somatics For EDS
36:50 Yoga Modifications
38:19 Polycystic Liver Shock
39:20 Fatphobia In Healthcare
40:56 Pole Dancing Reality Check
41:55 Mechanical Keyboard ASMR
45:56 Nail Art And Picking
49:09 Keyboard Layout Rabbit Hole
01:00:59 Shortcuts And Muscle Memory
01:03:12 GrAPPtitude App Picks
01:14:07 Karabiner Power Tips
01:17:30 Wrap Up And Thanks

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Nails and Keys with Melissa Davis (The Mac Mommy)

[00:00:00]

Meet Melissa Davis

Brett: Hey, this is Brett Terpstra. I am without my usual cohorts, Christina and Jeff. Um, so I, I wanted to, you know, get a, get an episode out for all of you listeners, and I reached out to Melissa Davis, known as The Mac Mommy. Um, I don’t, I, I don’t know if they’re still known as The Mac Mommy, but in m- in my lifetime they have been.

Um, Melissa, why don’t you introduce yourself, let people know, like, M-Ma- long time, like Mac personality, podcaster. Tell us where you came from.

Melissa: Where did I come from? Outer space. Uh, I came from being a mom. I, I, I will admit, this is

hard to admit, But I will admit I started out as a mommy

blogger. That’s, like, kind of

a bad word nowadays.

Brett: back, back, yeah, this is way Back when

Melissa: [00:01:00] Yeah.

Early Podcast Days

Melissa: so we’re talking, like… Well, my oldest is gonna be 20, Brett. My oldest is gonna be 20 this summer.

End of, end of June he’ll be 20 years old. So that’s about how long I’ve been doing podcasting. I mean, I started, I started,

like, when… Well, you know what? I started

listening to Adam Christianson’s The

MacCast

Brett: But you know what? I started Sure. Like one of the very first

podcasts, Yeah.

Melissa: still, I still listen to him on the Mac Geek Gab. Like, his voice is just so soothing to me.

I used to… Like, that was the f- Back when I had, I had, I remember I had, like, an old G4, uh, Quicksilver Mac, and in the stinky little back room of our old house. And I used to, I used to download the podcasts, burn them on a CD, put them in my Walkman, ’cause I didn’t have an iPod yet at the time. I wasn’t that…

I was never really that cutting edge. And I’d burn them on a CD, I’d put the CD in my Walkman, and then I would sit and nurse, I would nurse my baby. I, [00:02:00] and I would have to tuck the, uh, the headphones, you know, I’d have the ear- the, the wired, kinda like I have now, uh, and tuck it behind my back, like, behind my shoulder, because otherwise he’d, like, yank on the cord.

And I would just listen to podcasts while I nursed. And I… And then, uh, then I met Victor Cajiao, and I started just kind of being, like, a serial podcaster, showing up here and there, and then it just kinda grew from there.

Tech Support Seniors

Melissa: Um, and I do… So I do tech support. I’m an IT tech s- tech support person. I… People call me their computer guru.

I mostly work with, uh, the senior population, our,

our vintage people, which I, I’m slowly

becoming one of them.

We’re all, we’re all gonna go

that way.

Brett: I feel like anyone who does Mac tech support deals with probably an, a, a population that skews older.

Melissa: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it’s actually, it’s actually more– I will say it’s actually more difficult to work with somebody younger. Like, especially people my age or people [00:03:00] that are like, say, in their sixties I consider pretty young, 70 even. Uh, yeah, so but it’s, you know, the people are so, so interesting. You can learn so much.

I love working with this population because they’re like encyclopedias, and the stories they tell you and the things you learn, it’s pretty amazing. And I could just, I could just spend– I have actually spent all day with some of them. Some of us just have really great chemistry and, you know, it’s… They– I, I’m also– I have ADHD, that’s no secret.

And I think when you get older, um, not– it doesn’t affect everybody, but I do see a lot of what could be either they, they have ADHD or it’s like a–

Brett: they have

Melissa: of creeps in and it’s just a natural process

of aging,

cognitive decline.

So, yep.

Brett: have a lot of patience. Sure. S- some of my, some of my most interesting relationships over the last 10 years have been with, uh, Mac users in their late 70s, [00:04:00] 80s.

And, uh, like they’ve been– They’re very– Like, they’re definitely… The people that I’ve known have been technically capable and very interested in learning. That’s why they follow me. That’s ...

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