“This is not the computer for you”
I find this to be the defining difference between the "devices" (the phone, the tablet, the watch, etc.) and a computer: the computer is a blank slate, it is what you want it to be.
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The coming software abundance
There will be more software than ever before.
The breathing light
I miss the little light that used to indicate the Mac was sleeping.
Speed over depth
The network behaves like a gobbling No-Face because the network is designed to behave as such. All of the new popular social media platforms offer more of the same. What's the point?
Claude Code is the new Excel
I'm always amazed by how much and how well the average person knows Excel — the extent they're willing to suffer to bend the tool to their will. So many companies run on spreadsheets cobbled together in a fashion not dissimilar to vibe coding.
Inherited hallucinations
I find it funny that AIs have inherited this hallucination from us. I m reminded of this surreal clip from How to with John Wilson on the Mandela effect. Our AIs are like the guy in that clip.
Apps after AI
Will apps as prepackaged products lose importance over what they enable — the skills or data sources they add? The AI chat interface is proliferating across apps, but it seems more likely we will be bringing our own favourite assistant to them, pulling and accessing specific capabilities.
Some scientists think
John Kennedy: "When an article says “some scientists think” then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn’t given sufficient thought to the reverse operation."
The obvious, the easy, and the possible
I really like this framing by Jason Fried, on how to balance features. From just thinking about high/medium/low priority to "What should be obvious?". Not everything can be obvious, making something obvious often means causing something else to be less obvious.
Pagefind
Got around to adding search to this blog. It's powered by Pagefind, which I've been meaning to try. It was super simple to set up and use out of the box.