Here's hoping…
Tomorrow is the US Presidential election, and no one knows what's going to happen. Maybe Kamala Harris will
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Some random YouTube videos I dug recently
I used to share some YouTube videos every week in my newsletter, but that turned into feeling like work, so I stopped. Buuuut, it is fun to share some joy with others, so here's a few videos I've watched in the last week or so that made me go, "damn,
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Call of Duty and "the average user" (members post)
What does Call of Duty's massive success (and horrendous user interface) mean about the importance of design?
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Apple acquires Pixelmator. Oh my!
Pixelmator Team: A new home for Pixelmator
Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple.
This is huge for this company, and it’s well-deserved. Pixelmator has long-been a prime example of what a great Apple developer looks like, and I’ve used their products consistently
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Ghost is still the right tool for me
John O'Nolan: Democratising Publishing
Having seen how things worked on the inside for several years, the conclusion I personally came to was that WordPress and Automattic were not truly about democratising publishing, after all.
At the same time, I felt the product was becoming slow and bloated. WordPress was desperate to no longer
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John Green, Tuberculosis, and using your platform for good
Maddie Bender for The New York Times: Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis?
Mr. Green has emerged as an unlikely spokesman in the global effort to fight the disease. His latest project, a book called “Everything Is Tuberculosis,” interweaves the social and scientific histories of tuberculosis with the present-day story of a
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YouTuber Patrick Willems? No, no. Filmmaker Patrick Willems 👌
Jennifer Maas writing for Variety: 'Dinner Plan' Short Film at Nebula Casts Griffin Newman, Zach Cherry
Nebula has set the cast for its upcoming short film from “Night of the Coconut” director and popular video essayist Patrick Willems, “The Dinner Plan.” A dark comedy about a guy with a rare food allergy who’
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A lot changed in 2004
Anil Dash: It feels like 2004 again.
A generation ago, those of us in tech might talk to our friends or family and hear them say, "I think the ads in my Hotmail account are terrible, and I can’t send any attachments. And Yahoo search is getting worse, plus Mapquest is so slow.
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The Quest 3S ain’t no Vision Pro
Michael Burkhardt writing for 9to5Mac: Meta Quest 3S review: Apple would never make this
The reason why I say Apple would never make it is for one reason, and one reason only: it’s too low quality.
Michael goes on to note the lower quality build of the Quest 3S, which admittedly is lower quality
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The medical community loves a headset (members post)
Apparently there are surgeons who are getting tons of value from the Vision Pro. That’s great, but is it evidence that the Vision Pro is a great success, or is it just that surgeons use literally every headset that comes out regardless of if those headsets are successes or failures?
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The “I can’t see it so no one can see it” fallacy (members post)
The iPad mini jelly scroll situation taps perfectly into my favorite category of controversy: things that have objective facts mixed with subjective experience. Beware the idea that we all see, hear, and smell the world the same.
Arguing against improvements
Apple will be announcing new Macs next week, and that could mean it’s finally time for them to update
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Don’t take early digital movie releases to automatically mean failure
The Verge is reporting on Joker: Folie à Deux, one of the most derided movies of 2024, coming to digital storefronts less than a month in theaters. The film released in theaters on October 4 this year, and it will be available to buy online October 28, so 24 days after it was in theaters.
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My first Apple embargo (members post)
What it was like being a part of my first Apple hardware embargo.
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This is the sort of thing that makes me like Apple
Chris Welch for The Verge: Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound
Being able to use Apple’s $250 earbuds as a hearing aid is a huge deal for those who can benefit from this capability. That’s substantially less expensive than over-the-counter hearing aids from Jabra,
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I think we’re done making “shitty games”
Blooper Team’s Jacek Zieba, who just released the Silent Hill 2 remake, in an interview with GameSpot: Bloober Team Says It's Done Making "Shitty" Games And Silent Hill 2 Remake Wasn't A Fluke
[P]eople in the studio were like, 'Okay, we made some shitty games before,
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The most important line in any headset review
Riley Hill: I Bought A Vision Pro After Everyone Said It Was Dead
After about two weeks of using the Vision Pro,
Riley has some interesting thoughts about using the Vision Pro for the first time many months after the hype cycle has cooled off considerably. It’s a really good post and he’s
Did you know you can (technically) cut and paste in the Finder?
Yesterday I posted this video about a Mac app called Supercharge which adds a number of quality of life features