Politics
If You Want Republicans to Win, Get Rid of Trump
House Rating Changes: 20 Races Move Towards Democrats - The Cook Political Report
President Trump's abysmal polling since the pandemic began is seriously jeopardizing down-ballot GOP fortunes. We may be approaching the point at which dozens of House Republicans will need to decide whether to cut the president loose and run on a
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Step One is Replacing the Captain
This is what national decline looks like - George Will for The Washington Post
The nation’s floundering government is now administered by a gangster regime. It is helpful to have this made obvious as voters contemplate renewing the regime’s lease on the executive branch. Roger Stone adopted the argot of B-grade mobster movies
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More People Are Wearing Masks
Axios out with a new poll on how many Americans are wearing masks:
62% of those surveyed said they’re
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The Return of Fun Design
The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
As with all big shifts in design, you’re going to get a lot of noise. People will try to co-opt this new direction and attempt to label it as something it’s not (looking at you neomorphism). People will find fault with the execution. People will
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Apparently I Handle Apple Watch Notifications Like Hey Handles Email
One Thing About The Apple Watch
From the first time I put on my Apple Watch I don’t think my phone has been switched off silent. The Apple Watch allows me to be notified about what I want to show up, but with a subtle tap on the wrist. No buzzing, no dings and
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5 Years to Get a “Finally”
Daring Fireball: A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d’Etre for the App Store
But more than anything I worry that this exemplifies where Apple has lost its way with the App Store. What exactly is the point of running a strict approval process for apps if not, first and foremost, to ensure that
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How Gruber Shot The Talk Show at WWDC
Daring Fireball: How We Shot The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020
For video, we shot 4K 30 FPS using iPhone 11 Pros. That’s right, iPhones. Apple seems to have plenty of them so Federighi and Joz each had two — one positioned head-on, and one to the side for a wider-angle view.
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Obvious is Better Than Slick
How we achieve "simple design" for Basecamp and HEY - Signal v. Noise
Always choosing clarity over being slick or fancy. Internally we call this “Fisher Price” design. We aim to make the UI totally obvious and self explanatory, by keeping individual screens simple, showing only one focused thing at a time, and so
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Explain the Concern
Is WebKit Sabotaging the Future of the Open Web?
Why can’t the WebKit developer energy be spent on building these great new APIs and connect them with user empowering privacy tools. A great example of what I mean is website location tracking. If a website wants access you your location (for say driving directions)
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Maybe Now's Not the Time for a Culture War
Maybe This Isn’t Such a Good Time to Prosecute a Culture War:
[A]s he sees it, the path to re-election lies with the instincts that brought him to power in the first place. With enough racist demagogy, Trump seems to think, he’ll close the gap with Biden and eke out another
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Messages on Each Device in Your Life
Gruber serving up a little of his own claim chowder:
So I thought iMessages addressed to a phone number should only go to your iPhone (and not your iPad or Mac, let alone your Apple Watch (which was years away from being released) or glasses (which remain years away now)), and Phillips thought iMessages should
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EARN IT Act Still Ain't Good
The Earn It Act Threatens Our Online Freedoms. New Amendments Don’t Fix It.
The July 2 manager’s and Leahy amendments attempt to respond to some of the concerns that I and others have raised about EARN IT. But they perpetuate the basic underlying problem: if passed, even in this amended form, the bill
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Introducing YarnBuddy
Becky Hansmeyer:
YarnBuddy is a project tracker and a row counter. That means its primary job is to help you
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My Body is a Confederate Monument
Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument - The New York Times
I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South.
If there are those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy, if they
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Is Quibi a Figment of my Imagination?
Is anyone watching Quibi?
Instead, Quibi has foundered. The app’s ranking dropped to No. 284 by mid-June. A handful of shows, such as a reboot of Reno 911!, seem to have found an audience (it’s impossible to know precisely how large an audience, since Quibi, like other streamers, doesn’t release numbers)
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Edge is the New Safari is the New IE?
Microsoft is forcing Edge on Windows users with a spyware-like install - The Verge
If I told you that my entire computer screen just got taken over by a new app that I’d never installed or asked for — it just magically appeared on my desktop, my taskbar, and preempted my next website launch — you’
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I Won’t Do It, but Only Because You Told Me I Should Do It
Opinion | How America Lost the War on Covid-19
And there’s surely something to this. I don’t think any other advanced country (but are we still an advanced country?) has a comparable number of people who respond with rage when asked to wear a mask in a supermarket. There definitely isn’t any
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The UI Changes Between Catalina and Big Sur
Andrew Denty has a great collection of comparisons between the current and upcoming versions of macOS.
I have not installed Big Sur yet, mainly because the only Mac in my life is my work Mac, and while it is cleared for betas, I have no interest in risking anything breaking at this early stage in
