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I don't care what other kids are doing
Lex Friedman: A few more thoughts on why embracing X is wrong
“The Ellisons are bad, too” is a great argument for paying attention to the Ellisons. It’s not an argument for X.
I remember one time as a teenager my parents sat me down in the living room to discuss something bad I
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Why does this chart just go down?
M.G. Siegler: Twitter is Back. Shhh… Magic Dance!
But it's also not really a surge in usage,
Mac buttons over the years
This cool little site lets you scrub through the design of macOS buttons from 1984 through today. I gotta say,
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+ Tesla Cybertaxi first impressions
I rode in one last week. Here are my impressions.
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+ Do you want to cross the streams?
Obviously probably not, but also…maybe?
Basically all my apps support the iPhone Duo Now
Over the last 24 hours, and bunch of updates shipped, so here's what's new all in one place.
Nonogame
* The whole app looks more beautiful, matching the updated design of the web app
* Full support for the iPhone Duo
* Tap to zoom on boards larger than 15x15
* New "Lightbox"
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What is a developer?
Andy Nicolaides: I’m not sure what I am, but I know what I’m not
I am a developer by trade, but not anything close to iOS development, so whilst no stranger to coding, I’ve spent a couple of months in Xcode and there is not a chance I could tell any of
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Software authorship
Lex Friedman: Claude writes code; I author the apps
My initial prompt when I started on The Universe, Controlled was about 1,000 words — more than half the length of this article to this point. And it was explicitly only for a very limited subset of the game’s functionality. I’ve since prompted Claude
AirPods 5 are better than I even realized
I knew the AirPods 5 were top-tier AirPods almost immediately after using them for the first time, but I did still have one bit of doubt: how good were these going to be as airplane earbuds? AirPods Pro are awesome, and over-the-ear options from Apple, Sony, and Bose are all great, but
Unread 5.1 adds Birchfeed and Quick Reads support
Unread 5.1 came out this week, and it's the most significant update to the app for me
Hand-drawn Emoji for Chrome and Obsidian
Last week, I discovered a custom, hand-drawn emoji set created by Frank Rausch called FrankMoji. It was playful, delightful,
Say hello to "Parakeet Turbo"
Parakeet has long been a fan favorite local transcription model in Quick Subtitles. Apple's is slower and not
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The party of making things worse
Justine Calma: Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient
The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it “among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration.”
I just think there's something wild about Republicans in the US constantly advocating for things to
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Fetishizing something most people don't care about
Brent Simmons: That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI
Users have shown — again, I don’t need to prove this — that they don’t think about a stock Mac app vs. custom. Do they dislike Things for not having a toolbar at the top of the window that they can customize in the
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+ Gone too far
There's a chance, slim as it might be, that things won't go the way the've gone the last 30 years with digitization the moving to rental models for everyhing.
Birchfeed can forward newsletters to your inbox
Birchfeed allows you to set up an email address to receive newsletters which appear as feeds in the app. However,
Birchfeed can be your front page of the internet
Birchfeed is fundamentally a backend service that you will mostly use through a third-party client, such as Unread, Reader
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App review needs a reboot
Lex Friedman: The App Store review process needs fixing
Every single app and app update released in the App Store goes through this review process, and the review process is largely a black box. Developers submit, and then wait. They are given no specific timeline or indication of how long the review will take, and
