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The iPhone Duo is too damn small
John Gruber: ★ The iPhone Duo
The Duo name is perfect. It truly is like having two devices in one. The outer device is, by far, the worst iPhone Apple has ever made. It’s a miserable fat little thing. The inner device is a splendid, joyful, beautiful tablet, with a UI that out-iPads the
Smart person derangement
I'd like to coin a term: smart person derangement.
There are people who are very smart. Sometimes they're smart in a specific field or they are just generally pretty damn intelligent. Either way, they're clever and importantly, they've become aware that they're smart. This on
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How to become a mark for con artists
Hank Green in a video about Theranos:
We should not be complacent about the ways in which our world sucks. But if we're convinced that everything sucks and it's because people are terrible and nothing works when that's obviously not true, then we become the marks for con artists.
(not) solitaire
Despite its name, (not) solitaire is indeed solitaire (draw 2 cards, not 3 though), but with other people playing alongside
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+ Pastry is a privacy-focused clipboard manager coming soon
Yes, I'm working on a clipboard manager. I think it's pretty cool.
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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
