Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

The Talk Show: ‘The Pogue Feature’

Special guest David Pogue discusses his excellent and amazingly comprehensive new book, Apple: The First 50 Years.

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★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’

The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.

How to Identify Your Apple Keyboard Layout by Country or Region

This support page is a fascinating footnote regarding the recent changes Apple has made to their U.S. key cap labels.

Jony Ive on Redesigning the Christie’s Rostrum

Who do you turn to when you’re Christie’s and you want to commission the finest rostrum the world has ever seen? Who else but Jony Ive and LoveFrom. I mean, I’d love to snark about this, but goddamnit, that’s a lovely piece of furniture.

The Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator

John Gruber (Mastodon): One might presume that the dedicated indicator lights are significantly more secure than the rendered-on-display indicators. I myself made this presumption in the initial version of my MacBook Neo review last week. This presumption is, I believe, wrong. Later last week Apple published, and I linked to, a small update in their […]