I am totally overwhelmed by the new capabilities of all the ChatGPT-likes out there. I can't imagine turning my whole workspace over to them, and I certainly couldn't do it to two. I think I might recognize some of the applications based on the scripting functionality we developed in apps on the Mac and Windows in the 90s. I might have one of the largest codebases written by one human that hasn't yet been touched by an AI. Maybe it could be some kind of artifact from ancient times? Like, last week?
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Neven Mrgan on Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car
appdocumentary.com/2015/01/08/neven-mrgan-on-why-skeuomorphism-is-like-a-classic-car/
Jake Schumacher, director of the 2017 documentary App: The Human Story, sent me a note that Sebastiaan de With’s post this week, “Physicality: The New Age of UI” (my thoughts here), reminded him of a clip from the movie where Neven Mrgan compared Skeuomorphic design to classic cars from the 1940s and ’50s. So true. If you’ve got two and a half minutes to spare, watch this.
The Comma That Might Cost Apple Billions in Europe
cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/a-simple-comma-will-cost-apple-billion?r=6gzkf&triedRedirect=true
Jérôme Marin, writing at Cafétech:
The disagreement between Apple and Brussels centers on Article
5.4. In its English version, the article states that the
gatekeeper — the term used by the Commission for the seven major
tech companies subject to the DMA — “shall allow bu...
9to5Mac on The Talk Show Livestream Returning to Theater for VisionOS
Nice write-up from Zac Hall at 9to5Mac:
Theater for visionOS premiered a year ago with a clever
software launch campaign: exclusively streaming John Gruber’s The
Talk Show post-WWDC event live with 3D video.
The Apple Vision Pro app has continued to mature since its deb...
Theater Announces Immersive Livestream of The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025
sandwich.vision/press/partners/tts-live-2025-press-release.html
Sandwich Vision:
Theater, the premier platform for spatial media, cinema and events
on Apple Vision Pro, is proud to announce the immersive livestream
of The Talk Show Live from WWDC on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
Following last year’s groundbreaking first-ever immersive
li...
Judge Denies Apple’s Appeal; Ordered to Keep Allowing Link-Outs to the Web in the U.S. App Store
theverge.com/news/679946/apple-rejected-court-attempt-to-stop-app-store-web-links
Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge:
In April, a federal judge demanded that Apple begin allowing web
links, cease restricting how links are formatted, and enable
developers to offer external payment options without giving the
company a cut of their revenue. Apple promptly appe...
Marco Arment on Apple’s Decision to Decline Appearing on The Talk Show Live From WWDC
Marco Arment, moved to write his first blog post in 11 months:
For unspecified reasons, Apple has declined to participate this
year, ending what had become a beloved tradition in our
community — and I can’t help but suspect that it won’t come back.
(A lot has changed in ...
Now a personal comment. What pisses me off most about Bluesky is the environment all this is happening in. We need an open social web. They've got a lot of people convinced they are it. They are not and they know it. And they keep leading people on. They should either deliver, now, or get out of the way.
Regular readers of my blog know that I've been calling out Bluesky and people associated with it for saying they're an open platform, and part of the web, when they are neither. Why don't people, esp journalists, call them out on this? We've been around this loop over and ove...
9to5Mac Reports Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, You’ll Be Unsurprised to Know, I Have Thoughts
9to5mac.com/2025/06/03/exclusive-ios-26-messages-carplay-more/
Marcus Mendes, in a piece at 9to5Mac with multiple spoilers for next week’s keynote:
Apple is working on supporting the ability to export notes in
Markdown from Apple Notes, which is something third-party apps
have supported for years. Granted, this is a niche feature, b...
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Apple Might Release an iPhone ‘Air’ Battery Case, But What They Ought to Release Is an Updated MagSafe Battery Pack
theinformation.com/articles/apple-plans-iphone-release-schedule-shakeup-new-styles?rc=jfy0lk
Wayne Ma, reporting last month at The Information (a paywalled website so obnoxious that they force $300/year subscribers to click through an article-blocking popover pitching them on upgrading to a $500/year subscription), and summarized here by MacRumors:
However, the ...
Can David Frum hear me?
I've been enjoying the new David Frum podcast. He's very good at thinking and does a lot of it, and expresses himself very well. I read all his columns and have read two of his books, even though I don't share much of his pre-Trump politics, I find it interesting to hear how...
Meta and Yandex Have Both Been De-Anonymizing Android Users’ Ostensibly Sandboxed Private Web Browsing Identifiers
A team of researchers has uncovered a scheme they’ve dubbed “Local Mess” — used by Meta since September 2024, and Russian search engine Yandex since 2017 (!) — to de-anonymize Android users’ web browsing across millions of websites that include Meta’s and Yandex’s respective...
Meta and Yandex’s ‘Local Mess’ Exploit Seemingly Only Works on Android
Dan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica:
This abuse has been observed only in Android, and evidence
suggests that the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica target only
Android users. The researchers say it may be technically feasible
to target iOS because browsers on that platform a...
Jason Fried
• Jason Fried
Years of evidence
"Years of experience" has been a gold standard hiring requirement since forever.
It's a terrible one.
Someone can do something for years and have nothing to show for it.
Seek people with "Years of evidence" instead.
People with deep examples of work. Piles of stuff they've made. An overflowing collection of output they're proud to share.
If someone's brand new in their formal career, they might have little traditional experience, but if someone's been loving this kind of work for a long time, there's a good chance they already have a collection of hobby projects or other literal examples of their work they can't wait to show off.
Titles, tenure, and paths don’t matter. The work does. Always look at the work. It's the truth.
It's a terrible one.
Someone can do something for years and have nothing to show for it.
Seek people with "Years of evidence" instead.
People with deep examples of work. Piles of stuff they've made. An overflowing collection of output they're proud to share.
If someone's brand new in their formal career, they might have little traditional experience, but if someone's been loving this kind of work for a long time, there's a good chance they already have a collection of hobby projects or other literal examples of their work they can't wait to show off.
Titles, tenure, and paths don’t matter. The work does. Always look at the work. It's the truth.
-Jason
Trump Administration’s ‘MAHA’ Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors
Emily Kennard and Margaret Manto, reporting last week for NOTUS (“News of The United States” — a seriously good up-and-coming national affairs publication):
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.
Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.
Shocking that these dipshits would generate their report with whatever came out of an LLM and not actually check — let alone, you know, read — the cited studies.
James Dyson Proves That Live On-Stage Demos Are Still the Best
Dyson:
Join James Dyson as he introduces the new Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones cleaner. Our latest, most advanced floorcare technology — now available in Japan.
Nine minutes, short and sweet. I watched the whole thing and loved it. If it had been pre-recorded, I bet I wouldn’t have gotten more than two or three minutes into it, even though the video would have been more polished. There’s just something compelling about a live demo, even when you’re watching on YouTube.
(The new PencilVac looks cool too, but it seems too good to be true. I’ll be interested to hear from reviewers whether it, uh, actually sucks or kinda sucks.)
Joz Teases WWDC on X
Hard not to see the invitation and this new animation as a hint that the much-rumored UI redesign/refresh is, indeed, going to be glassy.