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macOS, iOS, and the software that sits between them.
Work, life, and the friction between them.
Riccardo Mori : What is happening with the monetise & weaponise strategy, instead, is this progressive fracture and disconnect between tech companies and regular people. A disconnect where people at various levels of tech-savvy...
Maybe it's because my eyes are getting old or maybe it's because the contrast between windows on macOS keeps getting worse. Either way, I built a tiny Mac app last night that draws a...
All Your Brand Are Belong To Us The last iOS redesign, iOS 7 in 2013 , laid the foundation for a neutral, nearly agnostic visual language that third-party developers and companies could build their...
I recently discovered minifeed, and it has quickly become one of my favorite things on the internet. Minifeed is a curated blog reader and search engine. We collect humans-written blogs to make them discoverable...
My son turned eleven last month. He reads all the time (fantasy books are his favorite) and has started planning and building his own worlds to write stories about. He made a to-do list...
What should have been an email is now this blog post answering Nick Heer: I am sure there are terrific records that do not appear on any of these lists, just as I am...
A quote I often find myself thinking about is The opposite of play is not work — the opposite of play is depression. —Brian Sutton-Smith An eighteen hour family road trip the week before...
macOS Sequoia has added a surprising number of new and curious warning prompts for third-party apps.
Yesterday, we entered a new timeline. I don't know if it's a better one or a much worse one. But it's something new. This evening, we arrived home from touring a new city —...
Prompted by this post from Mario Guzman, I was finally about to put into words what bothers me about Siri - and what I hope Apple's upcoming A.I.-focused WWDC will improve. We're over a...
Ok, on a scale from 1 to Tyler-you’re-an-idiot, how dumb is this idea… TextBuddy 2.0 is gaining new features that apply per-editor window, and I need a place to stash those settings. It's more...
In 2021, I received a cold email from an Apple director. They wanted to arrange a video call to learn more about developers' opinions of the App Store. I was happy to oblige, but...
Isaac Halvorson asked today I have a few hobby programming projects that I like to work on, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to make substantial progress on them. My free time is limited...
What follows are questions a few developer friends have been asking me via text message this weekend and my (slightly edited) replies. (I'm mostly writing this so Future Me™️ can look back at my...
(I'm stealing the title of this post from the closing sentence of this one by Yilei Yang.) I don't have anything to say about Apple's new guidelines for external purchase links on the App...
Brent has a post today similar in spirit to my own but much more eloquently written. Just like the sixth finger in an AI-rendered hand, Apple’s policies for Distributing apps in the U.S. that...
I try to be prepared before work meetings. Usually, that's just making sure I've jotted down any notes or discussion points I want to have ready. Depending on my mood and how far in...
If your mouse were a tyrannosaurus rex, it would eat your face off before you could find it across multiple monitors. What I mean by that is, have you ever lost your mouse cursor...