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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
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Tom Hanks Ain't Happy Greyhound Won't Be in Theaters
Tom Hanks talking to The Guardian:
But Greyhound has been an especial labour of love for him, one he sweated over for almost a decade, and it is one of those sweeping war movies that really should be seen on the big screen. So the change in plans has been, he says, “an absolute heartbreak.
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Blowing a 10 Year Lead
Google blew a ten-year lead - Second Breakfast
In 2010, I predicted that by 2020 Chrome OS would be the most popular desktop OS in the world. It was fast, lightweight, and $0.
And:
Then something happened at Google. I’m not sure what. But they stopped innovating on cloud software.
Docs and Sheets haven’
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The Point of Superhuman
Speaking of email apps…
Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced - The Verge
Part of the point of Superhuman is the exclusivity. It’s the email app for the 1 percent of people who use email in a very particular way for very particular business purposes. It’s built for the founders and CEOs
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The Battle for Privacy Continues
Dave Mark writing for The Loop:
The way I read it, this would require device manufacturers (like Apple) to build in some mechanism to allow them to (as the result of a warrant) break encryption. This is no small thing. This would break Apple’s privacy foundation.
I think framing this around Apple kind of
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Can My Headline Just be 🤦♂️
Matthew Panzarino talking to Phil Schiller
“You download the app and it doesn’t work, that’s not what we want on the store,” says Schiller. This, he says, is why Apple requires in-app purchases to offer the same purchasing functionality as they would have elsewhere.
I feel like this is recursive logic. The
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