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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 […]
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Modern-day Apple
I don't have anything to say about Apple's new guidelines for external purchase links on the App Store that smarter people than me aren't already saying. It's exactly what we all knew Apple would do. What I do want to comment on is the juxtaposition of the two most recent posts on Daring Fireball tonight.
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Using Reminders to Add Attachments to Calendar Events
A macOS Shortcut that makes sure any meeting notes I prepare in advance are one-click away when I need them.
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MouseosaurusRex
If your mouse were a tyrannosaurus rex, it would eat your face off before you could find it across multiple monitors.
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Do good. Get even more apps.
Last year when I rebooted my little software company, one change I made was “Do Good. Get Apps” – which means, instead of buying my products, you can make a donation to one of nine nonprofit organizations, and I’ll send you a free license for the app of your choice. Starting today, I’m choosing a […]
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Straight out of 2003
This post is way off-topic, but I hope you won’t mind a quick story about 90s boy bands and eighteen-year-old websites. In high school, my little sister was a rabid *NSYNC fan. Posters covering every square inch of her bedroom – my mom driving her from one end of the state to the other for […]