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"My idea of being a luddite is more like someone who keeps advocating that technology should be in our service, and not vice-versa. Technology seems to be on a path of eroding people’s agency, whereas I want people to have more agency and to be less ‘personal data fodder’."
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It was not yet entirely obvious that 50 or even 100+ capable humans would never be able to keep up with the cambrian explosion of content that was the public internet in those days.
I’m extremely late linking to this, but I adore this remembrance of the early days of Yahoo! from one of my favorite coworkers.
And, if you don’t mind, here’s what I wrote about taking a job at Yahoo! (checks notes) eighteen years ago.
For anyone wondering, the edge of an iPhone Air is stronger than a Studio Display.
Maybe it's because my eyes are getting old or maybe it's because the contrast between windows on macOS keeps getting worse. Either way, I built a tiny Mac app last night that draws a border around the active window. I named it "Alan".
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Or, imagine this, instead of inventing increasingly Byzantine rules and fee structures to justify rent-seeking, Apple could go back to focusing on selling quality software and hardware.
It’s that time of year again. I’m once again asking you to donate to my wife’s fundraising campaign for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Here’s a blog post I wrote a few years ago that explains why this particular cause is so important to our family.
You don’t need a single unicorn hero. You need a stampede of horses.
(That quote isn’t from the linked PR, it’s from somewhere else that I can’t find the source for right now.)
This continues to be some of the very best do-gooding of the year, every year. Go support this cause if you’re able.
Optimizing some NSOutlineView code this morning. ChatGPT gave me a fantastic 100+ line solution using NSOutlineViewDiffableDataSource, which was great, until I had to break the news to the robot that that API simply Does. Not. Exist.
