Addition By Subtraction 🔗
I still think saying no is important. In that vein, here’s something I shipped by removing functionality (and I think my site is better for it). For t [...]
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“It Gives Great Demo” 🔗
There’s that famous video of Steve Jobs explaining why they don’t didn’t make touchscreen MacBooks: We thought about [a touch screen MacBook] years ag [...]
Celebrating SIM Cards 🔗
It’s time to celebrate a little win. The other day, my mom contacted me saying her 10-year-old iPhone wouldn’t turn on. After getting a hold of the de [...]
Why My Dad Didn’t Have a Cell Phone 🔗
Here’s Dave Rupert writing about all those emails, texts, phone calls, etc. we’re getting these days: Once upon a time it had utility, now it’s all no [...]
No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner 🔗
I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons. Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuc [...]
No More Icons In Every Menu By Default 🔗
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s g [...]
We Need All the Disciplines 🔗
From where I sit, figuring out what to build, building it, and shipping it are all part of the art of making software. Many disciplines have emerged t [...]
The Dock on Mac, From OS 10 to macOS 27 🔗
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book. The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the [...]
The Fascinating World of Domains 🔗
Pete Millspaugh has a lovely article over on WIRED that peers into the world of domains. (If you’re as interested in the esoteric details of domains a [...]
“Getting off the Modernization Treadmill” 🔗
My notes from this talk by Alexander Petros at Big Sky DevCon 2026. Alex starts by noting how “modernize” used to mean something along the lines of “u [...]