Is nothing sacred anymore?

Why do some iOS apps in Apple receipt emails and have wildly different icons than the actual apps? Were these placeholder icons used at some point?

New dev methodology: AI-Hallucination-Driven Development

Dust jackets on book drive me crazy. They just slide off and make it harder to hold. Why do we still have them? Have we not innovated in the book domain to come up with better technology?

Wow, I just recently learned that the reason natural gas has a smell is due to the New London school explosion in 1937. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lon...

I enjoyed this AI microfiction by Robin Sloan www.robinsloan.com/lab/dead-man...

I'm not sure if this is a recent trend or not, but my favorite thing I've noticed about UI design lately is using off-white / paper-like background colors. I find it to be so much more soothing than stark white UI.

I archived scans of Steve Bissette's cult comic TYRANT, a gorgeous and beautifully written 4-issue story of a T-rex's life, from hatching to death. It's researched and educational; but also visceral and heartbreaking. Comics at its best. archive.org/details/stev...

Did you know, there's A Few People Who Write Good Things on the Internet? bxtr.co/a-few-people...

Installer has become the first newsletter I read on Saturday mornings. Basically a collection of all that’s good and fun on the internet. www.theverge.com/installer-ne...

How is it that text on Windows is still so bad? I attempted to edit a Google doc while on my gaming PC and I could not believe how bad the text rendering looked compared to my Mac. I figured this would be a solved thing by now. Am I missing some sort of configuration option?

The gamification of nateparrott.com is brilliant.

This feeeed app is great. Great interactions, lots of options for adding news sources. Incorporating your personal photo library is a great idea too. feeeed.nateparrott.com

Wikenigma is an encyclopedia of known unknowns. That is, a listing of “scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer”. [wikenigma.org.uk]

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

Very important PSA

Search on the latest Photos app on iOS works better than I thought, but still not perfect. Searching “November for the last 5 years” showed what I expected. Searching more specifically for “November 24 two years ago” didn’t return anything.

I loved Nuzzel; this is great!

Such a fun nostalgia trip and look behind the scenes of the Super Mario Land games on GameBoy. These were some odd Mario games but I sure sunk a ton of time into them as a kid. youtu.be/Jg1IIIJTrBI?...

This is a really cool feature.

I’m very impressed with the feel of the Bluesky app. It’s so much more responsive and snappier than X or Threads. Now I just need to find the people to follow and I’m sure I’ll be using this more than the others.