Apple’s App Icon HOA 🔗
Louie Mantia has a great post about how app icons are converging towards the squircle on iOS and macOS. His post reads like a history. If you’re wonde [...]
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“I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” 🔗
That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering. He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digi [...]
Dear Software Makers 🔗
Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube”. I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new featur [...]
VLM Enhanced Metadata For My Icon Galleries 🔗
Confession: I got nerd-sniped by Sam Henri Gold’s request for my icon galleries: I'd like to humbly request artwork-level searching in macosicongaller [...]
Humane Interfaces 🔗
So there I am reading Unsung when I come across this quote from Jef Raskin: An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate [...]
Using an LLM to Automate the Process of Archiving New macOS App Icons 🔗
Whenever a new version of macOS drops, I find myself archiving the new app icons for my macOS icon gallery. In the past, the work to do this was a bit [...]
Make Money to Make More Websites 🔗
I was listening to the episode “Make Your Own Thing” from the Off Protocol podcast where Jim Ray interviews John Gruber. They cover a variety of topi [...]
A Great Story Capturing the Essence of Being Online in 2026 🔗
I made a note of it, but Bryan Cantrill wrote a post about the ex-Anthropic employee who pegged the probability of AI killing humanity in the next dec [...]
The iPhone Model Hall of Fame 🔗
John Gruber makes his picks for the iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone 5S iPhone X iPhone 17 Pro Ok, my turn. Here’s my iPhone Hal [...]
Do You Prefer Artificial? 🔗
“Artificial” things can get a bad rap next to their counterparts, but they have their place. For example, artificial light (i.e. not from the sun)? Su [...]