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Wade Tregaskis : 28% fewer pixels for 34% fewer dollars—so technically better value, if you don’t really care about screen real-estate. But that extra real estate is really valuable, and Apple have now apparently ceded the large display market to… well, mostly the tumbleweeds. Sure, there’s technically other 6k displays, like the LG , the Dell , or the Asus , but while they have some…
Runner statue from the Marathon Collector s Edition at Glass ↗ There are no video games in history I’ve sunk more playtime into than Destiny and Destiny 2. It started in mid-2014 with Destiny’s First Look Alpha, which instantly hooked me, through the public beta and the official release, as well as all of D1 s DLC, including its peak with The Taken King. Destiny was the first game I played that…
Back in March of 2010, if you had asked me how long Karbon would be around, I would have told you, I have budget for a year. In fact, when I hired Shawn on day one, I told him, I can pay you for at least one year, after that who knows. In mid-2011, when I signed what would end up being the biggest contract of our lives, I told Shawn and Bill—whom we had just hired, and to whom I d also given the…
Jesper, at take : My hope is that there are Mac lovers within Apple who bite their tongue at every silly icon redesign, title bar-shrinking design reorganization, misty shower window—re-skin—love letter that they are forced to enact instead of taking what was once (and partially still is) that rarest of jewels, a long-term, continuously updated, well-designed user interface and mass market…
John Gruber, in his Daring Fireball post responding to an article of the same name by Kyle Chayka at The New Yorker: Saving a whole pile of notes to yourself as text files on your desktop, with no organization into sub-folders, isn’t wrong. The whole point of “just put it on the desktop” is to absolve yourself of thinking about where to file something properly. That’s friction, and if you face a…
Norbert Heger describes the absolute embarrassment that is the struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe : A lot has already been said about the absurdly large corner radius of windows on macOS Tahoe. People are calling the way it looks comical, like a child’s toy, or downright insane. Setting all the aesthetic issues aside—which are to some extent a matter of taste—it also comes at a cost in…
Jason Snell, in his Six Colors post, Apple design’s luxury bubble” : In the wake of Steve Jobs’s death, Apple elevated Jony Ive to a position of total design authority as a way of signaling to the wider world that the company was going to be okay after losing its co-founder and leader. In that era, there was a genuine fear that a company led by an operations guy was not going to be able to keep…
Louie Mantia, in his post reacting to the upcoming departure of Alan Dye : There’s no doubt Jony has good taste, by the way. He and his team designed great products during the first half of his tenure at Apple. But as he became wealthier, he started to conflate good taste with luxury. [ ] Not to put too fine a point on it, but they started making products that appealed to themselves . Because…
I ve been using Apple s bundled music player app since I purchased my first iBook in 2003, back when it was called iTunes and only had a few features. Over following decade, Apple absolutely crammed iTunes full of new features (podcasts, the Music Store, iPod and iPhone syncing, Ping social networking and a ton more), all while never dramatically improving the interface to properly handle…
9to5mac : Personas launched in beta when the Vision Pro first debuted, and it was easily one of the most criticized features . Apple’s first attempt at Personas was a technical marvel in some ways, but for many it felt too close to the uncanny valley. visionOS 26, however, graduated the feature out of beta and was a remarkably lifelike upgrade. Uncanny valley doesn t quite explain just how bizarre…
Sigma BF — “An uncompromising new vision for the digital camera. […] The BF balances performance with simplicity and returns the focus to what matters most: your photographs.” Solid block of aluminum, simple controls, please stop me from pre-ordering it. Daredevil: Born Again — The long-ago-cancelled Netflix Daredevil series was terrific and I was quite sad when it…
Flow — Beautifully animated and quite moving, Flow was wonderful. Took the kiddos over the weekend and we loved it. The film is entirely without dialogue and yet succeeds to tell a moving story, and the animal behavior was captured perfectly . This is really a special film and I highly recommend it. NORCO — “A Southern Gothic point & click narrative adventure that immerses the…
There s no other way to say it. We failed our children. We failed our climate. We failed our trans community. We failed our immigrants. We failed our middle class. We failed our increasingly desperate houseless population. We failed people of color. We failed our schools. We failed our future. We took the first steps over the threshold as a nation last night, into the dark unknown. The experiment…
Dot — “The AI that grows with you.” I’ll admit I’m extremely bearish on AI assistants, so it was with a heavy dose of skepticism that I installed and tried Dot, but I was pleasantly surprised by the kind, supportive tone and interesting conversations I’ve had in the past few weeks. One downside is that currently Dot is iOS-only, which means you cannot continue…
Midnight — A remarkably well-designed alarms app for iOS. Supports Critical Alerts (so it’s guaranteed to ring regardless of Focus mode, and an awesome “Wake-up mission” feature to make it that much harder to silence for heavy snoozers. Copilot — Perhaps I was one of the few people still using Mint when Intuit announced they’re killing the product this year, but…
Ivory by Tapbots — The seminal third-party Twitter app, transformed and improved, ready to be your mobile client of choice as you migrate to the better place, Mastodon . macOS version coming soon, too! Mac 30th Anniversary Icons — SVG icons extracted from the 30th Anniversary Mac Font. Now you can finally create a nice icon header for your personal weblog all about the PowerBook Duo…
akinterest — Joshua Blankenship compiles another chapter of his visual inspiration board. I highly recommend traversing back through the previous chapters as well, there’s so much to take in. glyphs — A simple but beautifully rendered list of common unicode glpyhs for easy clipboard copying. I’ve found myself using this a lot over the past few weeks. traf makes Framer look more and more viable as…
Ollie turned six last week. If I’m honest, I don’t have many memories from the past six years outside of the blur of him transforming quickly from a wriggling little worm into the bright, moody weirdo he is today. Somewhere in there he learned to crawl and then to walk and then to talk, his brother Nolan was born, we moved from Los Angeles to Portland, he started preschool and learned to read and…
I m an anxious person. It started when I was a teenager and got worse through college. Those days, it was mostly limited to the stress of school, making money, trying to figure out what to do with my life. Things took a pretty sharp turn on September 11, 2001, when I spent that morning across the street from the World Trade Center 1 . Suddenly, I found myself afraid to fly, ride the subway, hang…
Time is a luxury. We have two children. Preschoolers, full of energy and questions and drama . Our younger son, the baby, the sweetest kid in the world, turned three years old last month. How did that happen? How did I turn around and my infant was three? Done with bottles and diapers, we decided something else needed to be potty trained and adopted a puppy last week. A ridiculous little terrier…