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Re: Music Year-End Lists
What should have been an email is now this blog post listing my top music albums from 2024. I'm not sure what to make of them other than to notice it's a much louder collection of artists than in past years. Why louder? Well, _gestures wildly at the world_
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Steve
An eighteen hour family road trip the week before Thanksgiving certainly gives your mind time to wander and the opportunity to play. So, let's play. Steve is a new, casual, puzzle game for your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. The goal is simple. Fill the grid using the correct number of blocks. As my family and friends and (so far) five-hundred strangers will tell you, it's easy to learn. But annoyingly difficult to master.
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Little Known macOS Sequoia System Extensions
macOS Sequoia has added a surprising number of new and curious warning prompts for third-party apps.
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Here
Yesterday, we entered a new timeline. I don’t know if it’s a better one or a much worse one. But it’s something new.
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Light Switch in a Dark Room
We're over a decade into the industry's voice assistant experiment, and given the same input, the output doesn't feel reliably deterministic. Voice is an interface that is not stable or discoverable.
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Inner Workings
If I complain that modern software is too generic and boring, I should take my own advice and try something fun and borderline silly.
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It’s not about the 30 percent
In 2021, I received a cold email from an Apple director. They wanted to arrange a video call to learn more about developers' opinions of the App Store.
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Break the Build On Purpose
Isaac Halvorson asked: "What strategies do you use for quickly getting back into the flow and picking up where you left off?" Here's a trick I started doing years ago.
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Because what the world needs is one more post about their initial reactions to using Vision Pro, here’s mine.
What follows are questions a few developer friends have been asking me via text message this weekend and my (slightly edited) replies. (I'm mostly writing this so Future Me™️ can look back at my first thoughts in ten years.)
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“…not worthy of your love.”
Brent has a post today similar in spirit to my own but much more eloquently written. Just like the sixth finger in an AI-rendered hand, Apple’s policies for Distributing apps in the U.S. that provide an external purchase link are startlingly graceless and a jarring, but not surprising, reminder that Apple is not a real person and […]