Tech Thoughts

Hey Siri, Call Google

WWDC ’26 biggest winners were Google, Liquid Glass haters, iPhone 11 owners, and foldable-iPhone speculation enjoyers.

Claude Opus is a Bore

You too can have your very own killjoy — just $200/month!

The Unworthy, Ungrateful Manchildren of Tech

Matt Mullenweg’s fight with WP Engine is a reminder of how little accountability tech founders face for abusing their power.

Claude’s Walled Garden

Anthropic’s new rules for third-party Claude usage turn subscription discounts into a tool for locking users into its own apps.

Bazzite is the Linux You Should Use

Bazzite makes trying Linux easier with a polished gaming setup, familiar developer tools, and fewer ways to break the system.

Make the most of any monitor with BetterDisplay

BetterDisplay fixes the monitor scaling and management problems that macOS leaves unsolved, especially on screens that fall short of 4K.

Why are webcams so cursed?

Reviewers say the camera on Apple’s new display is horrible. Not surprised, tbh.

Panic’s ‘Code Editor’, and the Lack of Pro Apps for iPad

Panic’s discontinued Code Editor exposes how iPad restrictions and App Store economics keep powerful hardware from getting professional software.

Thoughts on Apple’s “Spring Loaded” Event

If you were hoping for Apple to sell you a $350 keychain, I have good news!

Let Me Tell You About My Boat

More than you ever wanted to know about my WFH setup.

Where The Web Fonts Go

Some simple best practices for self-hosting web fonts in the cloud

Parcel Post

Recapturing the magic of early web development with modern tools

Apple Watch Strikes Back

Thoughts on 2015’s most iconic product design, plus more on the Sept 2020 Apple Event

No More Masters

It’s time to change your Git repo’s default branch.

Blogging is a Pain in the Ass

Thoughts on blogging, or trying to blog, in 2018

Demaree vs MacBook Pro

I just got a brand-new 2016 MacBook Pro, with a Touch Bar, Thunderbolt 3, and all that goodness. I’ll be collecting my impressions here.

Trying out Medium’s photo post thingy.

Three photos from Adobe’s Union Square office the day Typekit Marketplace launched.

On “On Mast Brothers”

Sometimes, [someone is wrong on the Internet](https://xkcd.com/386/) and, in my self-appointed role as Twitter Batman, I seek justice by countering one wrong link or tweet with several (I would say) right ones. This time, about halfway…

Earlier today I played with iPad Pro at the mall (super briefly because I had a bored toddler waiting for me)

Earlier today I played with iPad Pro at the mall (super briefly because I had a bored toddler waiting for me). These are my impressions:

Apple’s new keyboard and mouse, reviewed

A same-day review of Apple’s 2015 Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse 2.

Windows 10 Launched Last Tuesday. Or Did It?

Windows 10 officially shipped two days ago, on 29 July. As I write these words, today is 31 July, and I just got the following email from Microsoft:

Fear of a Chrome planet

*A response to* [*Nolan Lawson’s post “Safari is the new IE”*](http://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/)

Google Photos’ unguessable URLs

Ben Thompson on Apple’s Privacy Stance

Elliot Jay Stocks’ 1 month with the Apple Watch

Jeremy Keith on Web vs Native

The Kindle “Finally” Gets Better Typography

Apple Watch, 12″ MacBook, and Force Touch Trackpads

For a few dollars more

Living With Two Laptops (and Two Platforms)

I Got a Microsoft Surface Pro 3

Paul Ford on File Formats

Using Custom Fonts in iOS 7+

Blogging from Drafts on iOS 8

Microsoft Word Adds Dropbox Sync

Notes from the OS X Yosemite beta

iA Writer Pro’s Patent Debacle

My TYPO Berlin Talk: “The Weight of the Web”

Hi-DPI web typography on the Typekit Blog

“Why Nobody Can Copy Apple”

U.S. Internet Users Pay More For Worse Service

Google Kills Free Version of Google Apps

Evan Gotlib Buys A Microsoft Surface

Firefox 18, with Retina Support, Enters Beta Channel

Marco Arment reviews the Retina MacBook Pro

Windows 8 To Be Priced At $199, Then $69, Also Maybe $99

Tapbots: Don’t Panic

What Twitter’s API Announcement Could Have Said

TextMate is now open-source

Steve Klabnik on Ruby testing with factories

Google Chrome for iOS

Apple Releases “Podcasts” App

Shawn Blanc Reviews Reeder 3

iPhoto & Aperture Now Use The Same Data Format

Coda 2 & Diet Coda

Please Don’t Learn To Code

Show How, Don’t Tell What

Why Facebook Bought Instagram

Facebook Buys Instagram

TechCrunch: Pair Programming Considered Harmful

Facebook May Sue Employers Who Demand Passwords

Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

Where to get Retina iPad wallpapers

Mislav Marohnic on Apple in China

Daring Fireball on China and Mike Daisey

“This American Life” Retracts Mike Daisey/Apple Episode

Where’s \_why?

Objective-C Literals, Part 1

Idealism vs. pragmatism: Mozilla debates supporting H.264

iPhoto’s Mystery Meat Gestures

Byword for iOS

Two Experiments

Adobe Shadow

Ben Brooks on Readability

Readability, Revisisted

How I Work, Part 1: Ruby

Two Domains, One Google Apps

Developing Facebook’s New Photo Viewer

Heroku Supports PHP! Yay! (Yes, Yay!)

Siri Failures, Illustrated

Gaug.es for iPhone

The Failed Promise of ‘The Verge’

Facebook Acquires Gowalla’s Team; Gowalla Itself Not So Much

No, Siri Isn’t Pro-Life

Code Blog: Sexy instance\_eval proxies in Ruby

Little Printer

Readability Now (Mostly) Free, with iOS Apps On The Way

Knyle style recruiting

On Categories and “Shit Work”

Mobile FontFonts: Awesome Fonts for iOS Apps

Upcoming events

Kyle Neath’s Design Hacks

Better web font loading with JavaScript

Rands on Focus & Context-Switching in Lion

The Desktop Transition

Frames of Interaction

“You Interact with the Content, Not the OS”

Focus on my favorite OS X Lion features

Google+ and cognitive overhead

Richard Dreyfuss Reads an Apple EULA

Marco Arment on Safari’s Reading List

Ethan Marcotte’s “Responsive Web Design”

WWDC Predictions

On Grouponzi

Google Apps Dropping IE7 Support on Aug 1

Programming style guides

Filtering GitHub email notifications

Adobe ‘CSS Regions’

‘Inflate’ Web Type with FitText

Microsoft Buying Skype for Some Reason

Adobe Releases ‘Photoshop Touch’ Apps for iPad

Introducing Vico

Pow! Zero-Config Rack Serving for Mac OS X

Lunchy, A Friendly launchctl Wrapper

Amazon Launches CloudDrive Media Storage

WWDC 2011 Announced, Sells Out, May Not Feature a New iPhone

Things Cloud Sync Inches Closer To Reality

Tweet Nest

New MacBook Pros Have a Freezing Problem

NYT Announces Expensive, Confusing, Easily Avoided Paywall

Did Twitter just tell client-app developers to stop?

Anatomy of a Crushing

Out Today: The Elements of Content Strategy, from A Book Apart

Readability’s iOS App Rejected

Well, That’s One Way To React

Regarding Happy Cog Hosting

Getting Hardboiled with CSS3 2D Transforms

OAuth Will Murder Your Children

Amazon Simple Email Service

Back to the Mac?

E-Mail Use Falls as Young Chat and Text

Thomas Hawk’s Open Letter to Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz

It’s December, and 24 Ways is Back

Ageism? Really?

Instapaper 2.3’s Adaptive Dark Mode

danah boyd: Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook

All 4 Major U.S. Networks Now Blocking Google TV

The Most Popular Phone in the World

In Which I Cut My Hosting Costs by 89% By Switching to Heroku

Chicago’s “Significant” New Apple Store

Ewww, You Use PHP?

The .ly Domain Space To Be Considered Unsafe

You Can’t Innovate Like Apple (Just Cause You Want To Make Money)

Foursquare on Tuesday’s Outage: “So, That Was A Bummer…

Anil Dash on the new Gourmet Live

‘The Secret to Apple’s Success is That There Are No Secrets.’

Amazon’s New EC2 Micro Instances, Benchmarked

iOS 4.2 Beta Drops, and Apple Announces ‘AirPrint’

10 Things You Didn’t Know About The New Twitter.com

In Case You Were Wishing GitHub Had Some Competition…

Gruber Breaks Down Today’s Big App Store Changes

Apple Shocks The World, Announces Big, Helpful Policy Changes for App Store

Amazon Now Offering EC2 “Micro” Instances

This Guy Has An Analog Meter for His Google Reader Unread Count

Twitter of the Day: @English50cent

Eight Ways to Completely Misunderstand the Economics of App Stores

How Backblaze was almost, but not, acquired

Motorola Buys 280 North, Whose Technology is Basically Apple Stuff Ported to JavaScript, to Help “Foster the Android Ecosystem”

Google’s Creep Executive Officer

Paul Graham: “What Happened to Yahoo”

Oh Hey Look, GitHub is Running a Job Board

“Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong”

Neven Mrgan Compares iMac, HP & Dell’s Websites

BBB Punk’d Into Giving An A- Rating to Hamas

Meditations in a 4.0-mergency

Starbucks Switching to Free Wi-Fi on July 1

Ad hoc custom templates in Pages for iPad

Flash Player 10.1 is Made of Cocoa

Big Changes to AT&T’s 3G Data Plans

Rethinking Routes

“You Wouldn’t Drink 9-Year-Old Milk”

Before You Get Too Excited About A Verizon iPhone…

Chrome for Mac is Out of Beta

Gruber, Paczkowski, Geschke, Flash

Steve Jobs vs. Gawker Blogger

Changes at TypeKit

Eames + House at the Eames House

Dustin Curtis: “The Death of Files”

Fun with HTTP

How Wired.com Found the iPhone Finder

Microsoft Cancels ‘Courier’ Tablet Project

From 2006: How Odeo Screwed Up

iPhone 4G “Finder” Has Been Found

Elements of Twitter Style

Steve Jobs’s “Thoughts on Flash”

Cub Scouts Give New Meaning To “Achivement Unlocked”

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint

Apple Announces WWDC ’10 Dates: June 7–11

No, Actually, It’s Not Like That At All

Ten Weeks Later…

The Soloist

Simple Elegance.

Am I The Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

37signals Launches Highrise for iPhone

Steve Jobs Fires Up iPad For E-mail

No more computers.

Apple Lets Out a Few More iPad Details

Ars Technica vs. ad blockers

Yelp’s CEO Responds to Extortion Charges with Not One, But Two Straw-Man Arguments

iPad Has a Ship Date: April 3

The iPad is smaller than you think.

“A conversation I have every month or so”

We’re the Stupid Ones: Facebook, Google, and Our Failure as Developers

Marco.org: Side effects of developing for yourself

Google Admits Buzz Wasn’t User Tested Prior To Launch

Man Checks-In Everywhere But Foursquare Rehab

Custom time descriptions in Rails

Why TextMate 2 Isn’t Being Developed in the Open

Stupid Search Tricks, No. 2: “Cancel Google”

Google Responds To Criticism, Makes Buzz Easier To Kill

‘Facebook login’

Woman Auto-Followed by Abusive Husband on Google Buzz

Adobe’s CTO: Flash Player is Fine, Thank You, We’re Fixing It Anyway

Yehuda Katz Reflects on Rails 3

Jonah Lehrer on Loss Aversion

John Nack: Adobe isn’t in the Flash business

Zeldman: Flash, iPad, Standards

DF: What if Flash Were an Open Standard?

OmniGroup: iPad or Bust

WSJ: Sharp Expands Its TV Color Palette With Yellow

Jason Calacanis Says Apple Gave Him A Tablet

Dustin Curtis has pictures of The Tablet.

Predictions for Wednesday’s Apple Event

OkCupid on the 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures

Show and Sell

Apple Sees New Money in Old Media

Pleased to Meet You, Won’t You Guess My Name?

What Google Chrome could still learn from Safari

Maybe I Needing Later