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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,
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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
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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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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
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Becoming worthless (in a good way)
Cory Dransfeldt: Become worthless (to tech companies)
I'm not arguing for boycotts, I know that people are bound to different platforms for different, compelling reasons. What I am arguing for is that, given the opportunity, you try and reduce the value they can extract from you. That's very often your data,
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The Register thinks my La Croix benchmark is legit (sorta)
Brandon Vigliarolo: iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
To make a long story short, a cold can of La Croix (in Birchler’s case – the cooling potential of an aluminum can isn’t limited to name-brand sparkling “naturally essenced” water) takes an already beefy device to new levels of
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Riley Hill on the Fold8's crease
Riley Hill: Galaxy Z Fold 8 Review: Worth Buying in Years
As for the crease, it’s not something you see when looking at the larger display head-on. Tilt the phone slightly off-angle, and you see it. It’s minimal, but it’s there. Not a big deal. The only slight annoyance with
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Resident Evil movie is widely adored and makes an ass-ton of money
Michael Cripe: Resident Evil Defies Expectations as Zach Cregger Adaptation Collects $108 Million Globally After First Weekend in Theaters
It's a franchise-best opening for the horror-comedy hybrid that saw it bring in $60 million domestically and $48.3 million internationally. That's a good hunk of change more than even
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A new retro handheld has my attention
Daryl Baxter: Retroid Pocket Nova review: the best 4:3 retro handheld
The latest handheld by Retroid answers something that its users have been asking for - give us a handheld as powerful as the Pocket, but with a 4:3 display. That's what the Retroid Pocket Nova essentially is
This looks rad. There&
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Apple's C2 modem is in the iPhone 18 Pro Max (except in America)
Joe Rossignol: Apple Says iPhone 18 Pro Max Sold in U.S. Differs in One Way
Apple now says the iPhone 18 Pro has a C2 modem worldwide, while the iPhone 18 Pro Max uses the chip in every country except for the U.S.
What a weird one.
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The iPhone Air seems extremely niche in general, but my users love it
David Smith shared some numbers on how many people are using WidgetSmith, his insanely popular, and therefore pretty representative of
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Drawably is a hand-drawn UI library
It's not particularly useful for me, but I really dig this little UI library.
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Arc Raiders has faded away while I wasn't looking
Jamie Hore: Are We Really Witnessing the "Downfall" of Arc Raiders?
That’s according to a 9 August
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NVIDIA is doing the iPhone thing
Ben Thompson: Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face
Nvidia right now continues to be like Apple in the early years of the iPhone: for years forecasting was easy and reliable, because the company’s revenue was a function of how many phones they could make and how many carriers they supported; we
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The tech Apple will use to make the crease (mostly?) go away in their folding iPhone
KIMGEON: Google, Oppo and Vivo to Adopt Dual UTG for Foldable Phones – Apple-led dual-UTG design doubles glass content per foldable device
The lower UTG supports the OLED panel from underneath. It disperses stress concentrated around the hinge when the foldable phone is opened and closed and reinforces the rigidity of the panel’s
