The Case of the Sleeping MacBook

1 · Jordan West · May 1, 2015, midnight
Sitting on the late night subway train home in Tokyo, I thought I’d try to finish off some code I’d been writing that day. I wouldn’t usually pull out my MacBook on the train, especially a busy Japanese train, but I’d snagged a seat and the problem was still swimming in my head and I thought I could knock it over on the 45 minute ride home. But about 15 minutes into the trip, my screen suddenly turned black. Not like a freak-out, something went terribly wrong cut-to-black, but a gentle, Apple-l...