explain the minute differences between iPhone versions in sub-DFW prose
unexpectedly chortled so hard I got a brain aneurysm reading this one
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
the film still thing is such a funny signpost of the blog times
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ava-duvernay-one-perfect-shot-docuseries-hbo-max-1234728822/
the number of copycat attempts on twitter that seem to get the goal but none of the substance of that “perfect shot” aesthetic is amazing, just screenshots of any time the camera pauses on a wide shot in a superhero movie. but there’s still an intellectual curiosity there and opportunity for dialogue than just posting the same still from 2001 that’s likely been printed in a dozen Taschen volumes
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
a big idea of his was software could be usable by being well designed, which is these days much less of a novel idea due in no small part to apple/iphone, he kind of won but now what kingdom is left to conquer, makes you think
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
did anyone ever use the iOS notes app he “designed”
it was uh, not good. although he did learn a little bit about the minutiae of file syncing
iirc this was just pre-iCloud document storage and his fan base was large enough they cut some deal to use microsoft’s file storage stuff, and then he blogged glowingly about it while anyone who had actually done software development rolled their eyes
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
the big selling points were that it had a nice font and was named after the drink/lady from the james bond movie
good work if you can get it (not as good as podcasting tho)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
he weird clique of blogging inspired by the “getting things done” cult and all of the software tools involved in that seem, in retrospect, to be kind of a reaction to what was going on in software development at the time. i’m sure there are column inches to be written about organizational strategies, but it’s over. half of all cubicle-based industries use some ridiculous task system now and no one is going to seem cool or interesting blogging about that. they’re going to seem like a management consultant or one of those perverts who posts on linkedin
― mh, Wednesday, September 8, 2021 10:04 AM (three hours ago)
lol
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
it's like the fucked up "wealthy freelancer" fantasy, that you have a lot to do, all of it at your own direction
(Disclosure: I use GTD-inspired todo app Things to keep track of job stuff since putting everything in Jira would be insane)
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
― stet, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
I checked to see if it’s still on the App Store, and it is — but the last update was Apple auto-bumping their certificate for them so it’d still be a signed app. Officially mothballed for five years
I forgot the name of their company to develop the app was “Q Branch”
jesus christ
― mh, Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
A lot of folks were damaged when Steve Jobs called developers "artists." Some are worse off than others.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
“Chairman Pooh”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 03:39 (two years ago) link
thought it was really out of line when this guy shot mr takagi― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:50 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:50 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think about this joke and laugh every time I see this thread revived
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 04:30 (two years ago) link
loaded it up today for the first time in a while and the latest post was some asinine shit about how much Arial makes his eyes bleed. this guy is probably a terf
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 4 November 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
hes really mad that apple has ads now but he can’t say that so he quotes everyone else saying and then trails off poignantly rip apple
― stet, Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
that's pretty rich for someone whose CSS specifies Verdana first:
body { font-family: Verdana, system-ui, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
going to hack his blog and change the default font to webdings
― mh, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
“congratulations to the tories”
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 5 November 2022 02:11 (one year ago) link
Does he ever claim chowder himself?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/27/musk-twitter-open-letter
― sofatruck, Friday, 16 December 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
Apparently I’m a very slow learner on the “Elon Musk is an absolute shithead” front
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 December 2022 06:29 (one year ago) link
congrats to the tories
― mh, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/02/02/twitter-killing-botsCongrats to lagoon
― stet, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
cant believe im still only 15 feels like ive been posting to this site that long
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
I’m more optimistic about Twitter’s future than I have been in years.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 3 February 2023 02:41 (one year ago) link
Amen brother!
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-bot-api-changes-killing-fun
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 4 February 2023 00:45 (one year ago) link
cant believe i made it to daring fireball its a dream
― lag∞n, Saturday, 4 February 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
"Fuck Elon, I never liked that guy" - in awe of this
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 4 February 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
"They say there are no atheists in a foxhole, but there are more of them than there are libertarians in a bank run."
okay it's very clunky but full credit here
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Monday, 13 March 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link
https://mastodon.social/@gruber/110667962169426329
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 8 July 2023 03:57 (eleven months ago) link
We gonna need Threads/Mastodon embeds now i guess?
― Nhex, Saturday, 8 July 2023 04:03 (eleven months ago) link
congratulation etc
classic john "gatekeeper is my favorite feature of mountain lion" gruber
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Saturday, 8 July 2023 04:16 (eleven months ago) link
I’m more optimistic about Twitter’s future than I have been in years. Don’t get me wrong, I think there’s a very real chance that under Musk’s leadership, Twitter might break apart and fade into irrelevance. But Musk himself notes the same thing! Keeping Twitter open to a wide range of content, but making it easy to control what content you see, as user, is a worthy ideal. Pulling it off, that’s the trick. But as a privately-held company Musk is free to make changes that move Twitter away from being optimized for engagement and towards being optimized for enjoyment.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 8 July 2023 04:21 (eleven months ago) link
October 2022.
He’s now on a tear about the evil EU daring to try and regulate the best product of the year, Threads
― stet, Saturday, 8 July 2023 09:31 (eleven months ago) link
It’s interesting that Threads has entirely leapfrogged the “cool place to chat with chums” phase of its social network existence and gone straight into the “bad office party” phase
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 July 2023 15:53 (eleven months ago) link
everyones there brands influencers blue checks linkdin guys
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 July 2023 15:57 (eleven months ago) link
kinda funny how blue check in facebook world still means verified
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 July 2023 15:58 (eleven months ago) link
i’m no longer complaining about twitter’s “for you” tab after seeing threads so they’ve accomplished that
― mh, Saturday, 8 July 2023 16:56 (eleven months ago) link
“Twitter with the TikTok algorithm” is a good description of threads I saw somewhere.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:03 (eleven months ago) link
i said that in the twitter thread, but in a more artful way
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:10 (eleven months ago) link
He’s still got it
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 8 July 2023 17:33 (eleven months ago) link
TikTok has far fewer brands and celebrities.
Low-hanging fruit, but this review of a $100 box cutter is a masterpiece of the form.https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/studio-neat-keen
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 09:36 (nine months ago) link