Jony Ive made a “not precious” $5000 sailing lamp I wanna read a real world review from someone who bought one and took it sailing

Honestly shameful that Apple is whipping out every dark pattern in the book to mislead users into upgrading to 26

Instagram became briefly usable this year, when they “experimented” with a following only feed. I could actually keep up with the people I care about it. Then, they killed the experiment and it’s no longer usable.

What’s your tech wishlist for next year? Mine are: - Customizable panels in Figma - Android-style silent notifications on iOS (an in-between setting between mute and regular notifications) - Apple Music (desktop) actually becomes usable - More indie and small tech in general

This is Tim Cook’s superpower. And none of his rumored successors have demonstrated prowess at this. www.techmeme.com/251210/p47#a...

The way to write like a human these days is to avoid em dashes

The most astounding thing about the Alan Dye saga is that most people aren’t even saying “he’s bad“ or ”I dislike the work under his tenure” They’re saying “he’s a fraud”

Very cool that Cloudflare’s outage report had the CEO in the byline as the author. Sure, I doubt he actually wrote it, but putting his name as ultimately the one responsible is admirable. In similar incidents, it would just be some engineering lead. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

A while ago, I had a fun home network project where I would route all my internet traffic through Cloudflare Warp. The thinking was: I trust Cloudflare more than I trust my ISP and theoretically, web browsing should also be faster since it uses Cloudflare infrastructure instead of public ones.

Incredible recruitment video Focuses on the humans and barely about the company, only about how the interactions with the other people there make it special. Then, a ton of discussion about family and life outside work. The fact that this was made is a statement in itself. youtu.be/WLlAqA0_vLs

All software is “complete” at some point. I think Slack was completed in 2024 or so. Anything after that point is pure bloat.

I think Liquid Glass stung because it claimed to be a big reimagining of iOS, but it was just a shiny reskin. No one is mad that iOS is changing. The gestures in the iPhone X was almost a decade ago and that was game changing. Yes, iOS needs a big reimagining. But Liquid Glass isn’t it.

Some of the best merch are for babies

YouTube rolled out a very distracting new player UI But at least they didn’t say it elevated the content and made it shine

Apple Music deletes your playlists and anything else you’ve built up if you unsubscribe for a few months. This seems really odd. Why eliminate any incentive for a user to return to your service? If I resubbed to Apple Music now, it would be like starting from zero. Everything, gone.

Finally got back into Invasion (Apple TV+). It's sad to see a show with such a good premise work overtime to undermine its own potential.

The collab of a lifetime nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

Kids and technology is such a tough problem to solve. It’s not black and white, but having a tablet is just horrible for “fun” stuff is actually a good partial solution. kids.daylightcomputer.com

Why are we lying to young people about work? Everything worth having lives on the other side of effort. Everything good requires tending. Everything beautiful demands maintenance. web.archive.org/web/20250528...

I’ve been trying YouTube Music recently and the app is not good. But oh wow the algorithm is close to magical. I’ve never felt this with Spotify or Apple Music. If you tune your recommendations (even barely), and then start the Super Mix, every song is a banger. It’s so good for discovery.

“The reason you would create something is because you love it enough to see it exist.”

Trying to take more vibey photos. Really proud of this one from our hangout near Seattle! d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/38991431/ori...

This made me like Arial www.are.na/editorial/in...

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HTML Day in Los Angeles was SO much fun. I haven't met a cooler group of people in years. Coded a little, talked a lot, had a wonderful afternoon in Silver Lake. I can't wait to do it again. #htmlday #html #coding @htmlenergy.bsky.social

IMO Figma missed a big opportunity to put the first 2 letters of each product’s name inside a colored box So Design would be “De” in a blue box, Dev would be “Dv” in a green box, Slides “Sl” in an orange box, and so on

So good.

If the person designing your phones also uses a phone case, isn’t that an admission of defeat? There’s nothing wrong with cases, but phones should be designed to not need them. They shouldn’t feel slippery or fragile, or make you feel like you need to wrap rubber around them.

Absolute insanity

Genuinely fascinated with how many cats are on this marketing page usefathom.com

@basheertome.bsky.social Hi! The new Fellow products look amazing! I was watching the Espresso Series 1 video and there's a problem with the CSS. It's set to 'cover', so when I fullscreen the video to really enjoy it, it ends up cropped. It's also quite low resolution. Hope this helps, thanks!

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Making everything meet WCAG AAA contrast can actually reduce information hierarchy and hurt legibility for everyone. Accessibility today is about adaptability. Most modern platforms offer UI options for increased contrast, larger text, bolder fonts, reduced motion, and transparency settings.

This is a more grounded and less pretentious way of talking about materials and physics in UI youtu.be/rrT6v5sOwJg?...

Turns out the Mac had some pretty good ideas when it comes to multitasking.

Turns out the Mac had some pretty good ideas when it comes to managing files.

The Rehearsal is very good

Podcast ads are wild these days. I ran into ads that had to spell out the names (multiple times!) of the companies they were advertising — otherwise listeners would be confused. - And that’s Agentcy, spelled A-G-E-N-T-C-Y, Agentcy - We’re Humaine, H-U-M-Ai-N-E, Humaine

I want an e-reader that looks like this. I swear I will read the heck out of it. I will swallow whole corpora of works I’m supposed to consume. I will stop scrolling silly useless feeds.

If Apple forces users to turn on Apple Intelligence just to do some basic charging machine learning…

It’s almost impossible to find a show that is better in its 7th season than it was in its earlier ones. Game Changer is the exception to the rule. Every season it gets better, you can see the show’s creators get better at their craft in front of your eyes. This season is a masterpiece.

@benborgers.com Hi! I saw your photos and was wondering what camera you're using, thanks!

Jony Ive has a very iconic walk. More iconic than the Tom Cruise run. youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms

Now we know why Jony Ive, who rarely does public events, did one onstage last week www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

No idea how Fortnite survived 5 years without being on iOS

Patrick Collision is such a good interviewer here. I wonder if you can make the case that good CEOs are almost always good interviewers. This is because good CEOs should be good listeners (not just yappers), and they should be good facilitators (to enable others around them). youtu.be/wLb9g_8r-mE

It’s interesting that both Jony Ive and Ralf Groene refer to themselves as toolmakers

bro is cooked