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/2026/03/08/i-designed-this-rss-app.html manton.org I designed this RSS app for the web first, and then added Mac afterwards (in beta soon). I think that worked out well. Helps push the web to be as feature-rich as possible, and lets me rethink what should be different for the …

Apple Adds Three Executives to Leadership Page macrumors.com Apple on Friday added three new executive profiles to its leadership page for Jennifer Newstead, Molly Anderson, and Steve Lemay. Jennifer Newstead, Senior Vice President and General Counsel: Newstead is Apple's top lawyer, overseeing all …

inessential: I Tried to Explain What I Do

With Neo, Apple Goes After Windows 11

Apple 'HomePad' to Offer Magnetic Snap-to-Wall Feature and More macrumors.com Apple's upcoming "HomePad" will offer a magnetic snap-to-wall feature and more, according to the leaker and prototype collector known as "Kosutami." In a new post on X, Kosutami said that one of the HomePad prototypes …

The Great (ai) Game vs AI Theater “The game is so large that one sees but a little at a time.” To understand AI, its stakes and its long-term impact, you have to step away from the cacophony of headlines. And instead take the time to think of it as the Great Game. The Great Game was ...…

iMac, iBook, iPad, iPhone The name has never made as much sense as it would today

Dominik Schwind This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Dominik Schwind, whose blog can be found at lostfocus.de. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "...

The people behind the Dark Sky weather app quit Apple and started a new app that I instantly downloaded and paid for but what kinda cracks me up is they don’t even link to download it anywhere in their announcement post https://acmeweather.com/blog/introducing-acme-weather

Something I haven’t heard a lot of discussion about, and maybe I’m just not tuned in to the right channels, is whether AI use can be justified by the amount of benefit it projects. When I use AI to accelerate adding a feature to my app, I am improving the lives of, at a minimum, thousands of people. …

The Contradiction Machine:

A hot take, but a good one.

sunday is my favorite computer time day because it’s perfect for taking to plan out what you are going to focus your time on. at the moment we are trying to deploy our every day systems because the weather has made that a littler miserable. we are working on it though, lots to do.

Creator Studio Icon Comparison A comparison between the original icons, the pre–Creator Studio icons, and the non–Creator Studio icons.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Moltz/115953823742359296 FUCK TIM COOK. FUCK APPLE. And fuck the rest of these fucking fascist fucks. They're allegiance to fascism and violence is the real profanity. American tech oligarchs and their companies need to be shunned (shunning is just the beginning of what …

Using Claude Code to Manage Your Obsidian Vault:

Just got myself a yearly subscription for GLM-4.7. It comes at a great discount right now and I am looking froward to how it compares to Claude Code. 🚀 Join the GLM Coding Plan! Enjoy full support for Claude Code, Cline, and 10+ top coding tools — starting at just $3/month. Subscribe now and grab …

Apple. TSMC. Sitting in a tree… https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/apple-tsmc-the-partnership-that-built

This is all enabled by the excellent Claude Code Superpowers Marketplace - https://github.com/obra/superpowers-marketplace - worth a look!

The 2025 Apple Product Tier List https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/appleproducttierlist2025

Most people have never lived outside the mind’s theater. They experience life almost entirely as commentary…as stories about what’s happening, what might happen, what should be happening, and who’s to blame that it isn’t. Inside that theater, constant agitation feels like virtue. Outrage feels like …

I'll just leave this here.

One of the deep problems with algorithmic social media is the incentive to figure out how to game the system: “growth hacks” as a certain constituency likes to call them. Some of them are surprisingly akin to religious rituals. You have faith that they work, but not a lot of evidence… …

Thanks @numericcitizen for the new video about what’s new in Micro.blog! You can watch it on YouTube here and it should be available hosted directly on Micro.blog later too.

If you haven't been able to ship your iOS/macOS 26 update yet and have been feeling bad about it, just remember: Apple still hasn't shipped iWork with Liquid Glass, and Apple also opted all its pro apps out of Liquid Glass. Final Cut Pro on iPad still doesn't support the background video exporting …

Discussion of their latest products and OS releases is indirectly promoting the company and normalizing the far more important aspects of what it is doing in 2025: supporting fascism. The only mentions and discussions of #Apple in 2025 should be about its support of fascism. That goes for any of the …

The "community" of #Apple enthusiasts that follow podcasts and news sites about Apple, that have Apple as a sort of tech-hobby might want to reconsider their role in holding up a consumer culture that facilitates interest in a company that is increasingly hostile to its users but one that is …

Working with Liquid Glass has been painful… macOS 26.1 and the new Clear/Tinted settings seems to have broken the AppKit clear variant. Picking "tinted" seems to go the other way and make "clear" glass “even more clear”? What am I missing?

I could stair at this photo all day…

"Remote work is more popular than ever, office work less popular, and smart companies are saving money and attracting top employees by offering the flexibility and freedom of remote work as a perk." https://www.computerworld.com/article/4073785/how-to-make-workers-happier-with-less-pay.html …

Where Apple’s Liquid Glass Crashes the User Experience https://crafted.numericcitizen.me/apple-liquid-glass-fails

There is no CEO of RSS.

Apparently the Affinity apps (Photo 2, Designer 2, Publisher 2) are free on iPad for a limited time (and only iPad). How to claim them: You need to install them, open each one, go to purchase/buy, and it should show as $0. Confirm the purchase. Free to keep. Rumor is this might be because a 3.0 …

Forcing software engineers to use LLMs is like forcing chefs to use microwaves. It may be faster, but are you a fast food restaurant, and if so, why did you even hire a chef?

Trying to justify the iPhone Air’s raison d’être by saying that it’s a preview of the thinness of the future foldable iPhone is hilarious to me. I mean, so what? When it’s ready, just make an impressively thin foldable iPhone. If this is Apple’s real strategy, they’re sabotaging the otherwise …

In a nutshell: https://nerdculture.de/@phranck/115210339599195164

Is this fixation fixable? ↓

The five things that were necessary before you could have podcasting: Blogging. HTTP. RSS. MP3. iPod. It's pretty simple, but this confluence eludes most tech people and journalists.

No, #Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs’ vision for the iPad https://victorwynne.com/vision-for-ipad/

The debate over whether LLMs are like calculators is mostly a distraction, for in any case calculation isn't a social activity. The ultimate goal of AI is to isolate us from our fellow humans in every way and every context, replacing them with artificial middlemen controlled by tech lords. Claude …

No means no, even for Perplexity · Victor Wynne When a website puts up a robots.txt file, it’s basically putting up a “No Solicitors” sign on their digital front door. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling Girl Scout cookies, collecting for charity, or claim you’re there to help the homeowner. The …

Not only did I exit Apple in February (My first computer in 1993 and all since were Apple made) I've started a program at my local library to help others exit big tech, save money and continue using older hardware. Computing without #Apple, #Google, #Microsoft is entirely possible. Using #GNU #Linux …

I gotta say, I’m not digging this white-on-white button motif in Liquid Glass. It looks buggy and unfinished. A little dated too: it reminds me of the late 2000’s when box-shadows were added to CSS 3 and websites were experimenting with using shadows as borders.

New blog post: Tim Cook vs. Steve Jobs This may not be the blog post you expect from me. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/8/2.html

There was something about the appearance of iOS 26 Safari WebViews I wasn’t too sure about, and now I know: there’s a material difference between the header and the web-page, but there’s nothing separating the two. No edge, no gradient. This looks unnatural and, dare I say, a little amateur. …

Knowing Louie like I know Louie, this ep of The Talk Show promises to be a good one. 👍 https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/07/31/ep-428

The biggest 'problems' with Liquid Glass are almost entirely confined to two controls: tab bars, and toolbars. The blurry illegible content clashing with what's underneath, the flashing between light and dark — just two controls. When you think about it like that, it's hard to imagine them delaying …

macOS and iPadOS are definitely merging. macOS is looking more and more like iPadOS, and iPadOS is looking more and more like macOS.

1) Liquid Glass is beautiful 2) Real-world content is ugly I don't know that you can ever square that circle

To be completely honest with y'all, I'm feeling the same sense of dread about iOS 26 as I did with Stage Manager in iPadOS 16. And it's actually even worse, because design touches *everything* across platforms. The more time passes, the more I feel like the entire idea of Liquid Glass needs to be …

How ChatGPT interprets my blog:

New, on Morrick.​me — The cost of selfishness: https://morrick.me/archives/10097

Hey Elon Musk: Try using AI to help people instead of using people to help your AI company. https://machinesociety.ai/p/friends-dont-let-friends-make-friends-c3f

“When we are using social media, someone is reaping the rewards of our time. People are making money off of us. Be them advertisers or the CEOs of these platforms. Every tap, every video, every swipe is building and improving these platforms and their algorithms. As we use social media platforms, we …

I think AI in software will be a bit like CGI in movies. In the beginning it is all “look at these fancy new effects”. Eventually it is one part of a toolkit, and the best uses are the ones where it is so well integrated you don’t realize it is being used.

I’ve Got Better Things To Do Than This, and Yet

We've known for decades that translucency in UIs looks really cool, but is extremely difficult to design in a way that works with arbitrary content across versatile situations. With the glass-redesign rumors, many of us thought, “If anyone can do it, it's Apple! They must've finally solved it." They …

What I picture every flight headed to SFO for #WWDC25 looking like right now.

To learn more about Sky, here's @viticci with a walkthrough... https://www.macstories.net/stories/sky-for-mac-preview/ #Apple www.macstories.net

Sam and Jony and skepticism – Six Colors

Isn't it ironic that OpenAI has to pay billions of dollars for humans to design a device instead of just asking ChatGPT to design the device?

AI Age Brings The Biggest Acquhire

Apple Turnover

Apple Turnaround

Google created a NotebookLM notebook with everything they announced at Google I/O. So instead of slogging through thousands of hours of video and other content, you can just ask NotebookLM questions, listen to a podcast, or get a FAQ, etc. …

Use AI to reduce unnecessary difficulties, not to avoid essential effort:

Apple being petulant is unbecoming of a titan of their stature. Arguing in court in democratic countries is their right and is good. While they’re being combative that’s why we’ve built these systems and institutions. Playing silly buggers with judicial orders isn’t just obstinacy, it is thumbing …

Bill Gates writes about accelerating his plan to give away his wealth, winding down the Gates Foundation in 20 years: People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that “he died rich” will not be one of them. There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto …

Employers: Everyone must return to the office, because we work best when people collaborate face-to-face. Also: We're going to replace everyone with A.I.

Connection isn’t just personal. It’s political.

Normal.

@numericcitizen I THINK this improvement is not so much new as now being more widely available .. I ask because I have always struggled with how micro blog book marks can really replace something like Raindrop .. but sounds like Manton has a process. I think it would be awesome to have a single …

Pssssst. So cool. 😎 https://usetapestry.com/connectors/ #TapestryApp

Delayed or not, Apple’s proposed Intents-based Apple Intelligence features require a ton of buy-in from developers for it to be of any real use, and the incentives really aren't there — donating your app's content and functionality to enrich Apple’s AI alone, bypassing your UI, UX, branding, …

I can still remember when we Apple fanboys in the 2000s would point to stuff like this happening in Micro$oft Winblows and laugh our asses off. We'd also point to tone-deaf ads, badly-designed UIs, and me-too product lines. Apple is the new Microsoft. You're doing great, Tim Apple! …

Perhaps nothing encapsulates Apple's decline in user respect more than the transformation of the Settings app on ALL of their platforms into an advertising vehicle. Which is impressive, considering it's competing with App Store search ads and using notifications for marketing. …

The Vision Pro one year later: this product just ain’t for me

“The road to fascism is paved with people telling you not to overreact.” - My motto for the next four years

Here is the full update to Reader, a lot of good stuff: Reader Public Beta Update #11 (Chat With Highlights, Apple Notes Export, YouTube v2, and more)

@numericcitizen Cool. Mb, as a primary photoblog, doesn't work for me because the quality of the uploaded (and even crossposted) photos is very shoddy. Mb strips out a lot of information and compresses the image a lot more than I like. Things were improved but not enough to make it a primary source …

Web Independence

AdamColeman on Matt Pearce

Or, Instead of All This—

Make a Damn Website

Severance MDR Terminal & Dasher Keyboard

Podcaster Reveals the Spicy Details of His Falling Out With Elon Musk thedailybeast.com

Apple's string of failures shows just how badly things need to change macworld.com

I agree with Jason. I’ll maybe go further—If Apple Intelligence summarizes your notifications then Apple *should* badge it with *their* Apple logo. Not some weird cog or brain or some other such icon. Put your name on it! Apple is the one presenting this information to you and they should be held …

I Made This

Tips on Using LLMs (AI) Effectively for Text

Art has value because humans created it.

To know what a product is means knowing what it is not. It took me years to figure this out.

Meta blog post – Manu

The Internet Archive collection of classic computer magazines, including: - Macworld - Byte - MacUser - Commodore - Amiga - Macweek And many, many more. Huge wave of nostalgia. Fully readable. Enjoy... ❤️ https://archive.org/details/computermagazines #History

@numericcitizen I'm learning IaC myself. I successfully set up a pipeline using YAML awhile back that's still working today, but I want to do more. I'm currently looking at this video, but it's very high-level. If I find more good tutorials, I'll be sure to send them your way!

Started working on a blog post today and had to actually go do some research to make sure I was right. This is a benefit of occasional long-form writing. It’s a way to refine how you feel about something, learning a bunch in the process.

Sunset Cliffs, II. San Diego, December 2024 #aowsimages #photography #blackandwhite

Mac mini port history

Window to America. San Francisco, September 2024 #aowsimages