Escape from Squircle Jail
This weekend, I was wrapping up a new release of Iris and decided to have some fun with the app icon.
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Fossils in the Ground
Iris ships today. 2,023 days since the first line of code. Before I say anything about what it is, I want to show you what the app started as — because the two things barely resemble each other, and the gap between them is basically the whole story.
“Get 3 months of free music with your AirPods Pro”
I don't care if AirPods are the better product for my needs. They're no longer the experience I want. And, increasingly, more and more of what Apple offers is not, either.
“Things I think I’m good at”
As a parent, I often lose faith that I'm doing a good job raising my kids, but then I'll get a sign that maybe things are going OK after all. Last night, my daughter came into my office to show me a list she made of things she thinks she's good at. Reading it nearly melted the eight inches of snow outside my window.
“This time it’s not fatigue, but disconnection”
"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’."
Alan.app
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".
Some Books
An internet friend asked the other day: It appears I have finally rebooted my reading hobby, after years of trying. Feels good. What’s something great you’ve read? Here’s some of my favorites (in no particular order).
Migrating Day One Journal Entries to Obsidian
I recently moved away from Day One and am now using Obsidian to keep my daily journal. To make that possible, I needed to migrate over a decade’s worth of journal entries into an Obsidian-friendly format. When I first started using Day One, I wrote about it on this blog and said one of the requirements needed to be […]
All Your Brand Are Belong To Us
The last iOS redesign, iOS 7 in 2013, laid the foundation for a neutral, nearly agnostic visual language that third-party developers and companies could build their own brand and corporate design on top of. It was such a clean slate that, twelve years later, most major apps look similar — if not identical — between […]
minifeed
I recently discovered minifeed, and it has quickly become one of my favorite things on the internet. Once, maybe twice a day, I load the homepage and browse through the latest posts from real blogs written by real humans. I almost always find something surprising, delightful, weird, or just plain fun to read. Even better, I come away with a new blogger to follow.