Tea (a dating safety app for women):| Take
Everyone's prognosticating a new iPhone model this year - iPhone Air (this year, iPhone 17 Air), which supposedly slims down the iPhone 16 Pro by about 2 mm, which is around 20-30% slimmer.| Take
I link to things to read all the time. But sometimes a long article is better than a short article, and sometimes a book is better than a long article.| Take
Eevee: The rise of Whatever| Take
Riccardo Mori:| Take
Translucent user interfaces is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.| Take
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(Starting off with John Gruber's Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino – which is both right and aptly put – but followed by a crazy quilt of reactions.)| Take
It's interesting thinking about the push and pull of academia obsessed with (functional) purity and the greasy guts of optimizing for a CPU's inner workings and systemic pipeline with cache lines, branch prediction and mechanical sympathy. Dimitri's project implements a WebAssembly runtime, so it is already ten feet off the ground if you ask some people, but in a way the two ends almost meet here.| Take
Humane/HP fever dr—I mean Corporate Press Release:| Take
Almost eight and a half years ago, I switched to using an iPad as my full-time computer, having come from decades of having Macs.| Take
John Gruber:| Take
"What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?" Terry Lambert: "A lot."| Take
John Gruber: "In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement"| Take
Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games| Take
Andy Matuschak: Why books don't work| Take
Apple: iPhone 16 Pro Battery Replacement (2024)| Take
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In February, game developers began expressing frustration over Apple Arcade. They pointed out that while the service was initially profitable, Apple had begun decreasing upfront payments and the per-play "bonus pool."| Take
John Mauriello: Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries| Take
Compared to the sale of a banana, a cupboard or even a DVD of Liar Liar, many games are complicated enough that it is not necessarily straight-up fraud if they stop working for reasons besides material degradation. But that shouldn't be the last word, it should be a known concern that is carried into the design process and sorted out, to the amount that the technical tradeoffs would allow it.| Take
Margethe Vestager, EC commissioner:| Take
John Gruber:| Take
Cabel Sasser at GDC: "The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?"| Take
Rauhul Varma: "Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate"| Take
To be eligible for Web Distribution, you must:| Take
Putting Phil Schiller in charge of the App Store is going to be a hundred billion dollar mistake that all-told leaves Apple with a pile of legal, perhaps criminal, liability and a raft of draconian regulations around the world that massively compromise the iOS experience. This was clear years ago; it is unimaginable that he’s still calling the shots| Take
Steve Jobs, January 7th, 1997, 18 days after the Apple acquisition of NeXT:| Take
This is part actually honestly well-meaning, part malicious compliance, part intricate machinery. Many components have all three parts present.| Take
Apple App Store Review Guidelines:| Take
Increasingly I'm of the mind that "social media" has been a net negative. Whatever else it has been, it has also always been a tool for propaganda, for harassment, for distortion. And if you think that's a bit rich of me to say, I invite you to read Erin's article, where the case is made that even if it can be good in the hands of the right steward, Meta/Facebook is not an unwitting or hapless one but an actively terrible one.| Take
Space Black looks nice, but the one I'd want starts at $7,984 (Swedish price) and even an ~82% uplift in Xcode from the M1 Max is still not worth it when I hardly ever feel held back by this chip.| Take
I have no idea what's in store for Monday night's Scary Fast event, and although some have noted the overlap of the curiously late event with Japanese business hours (and yours truly's wee hours) and thus a gaming focus, this is not a prediction of what's to come.| Take
The Humane Ai Pin has been announced, a phone alternative trying its best to not be a phone in any way. Humane famously spearheaded by ex-Apple luminaries Imran Chaudhri (with large amounts of the iPhone and multi-touch user experience to his name), Bethany Bongiorno (a Director of Software Engineering from the launch of the original iPad) and counting among its ranks Ken Kocienda (part of the initial Safari/WebKit team and designer of the first software keyboard and typing autocorrect), I'm ...| Take