Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Flighty Airports Meltdown Map
Live data with major airport delay times for North America. Available on the web — with a nice “TV Mode” too — and, of course, within the app.
The Data Drop: Every iPhone
Just lovely data visualization work from Sheets.works — a consulting firm that specializes in, I swear, Google Sheets.
Phantom App Updates, Part 3
digidude23: Is Apple creating updates for 3rd party apps now? This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. iSan4eZ: Apple inserted this text into my app and issued an update with the same version. I’m sure about it as I update the app on my phone as […]
Notes From Setting Up New Apple Devices
This weekend, I helped my non-techie father migrate to a new iPhone 17e and MacBook Air: Device Transfer initially couldn’t find the old iPhone SE. It turns out that years ago he’d read some article that said Bluetooth was unsafe and so he’d turned it off. The setup assistant repeated the new age verification question […]
Apple Creating All the Apps
John Gruber: Pogue interviewed Scott Forstall and got this story, about just how far Steve Jobs thought Apple could go to expand the iPhone’s software library while not opening it to third-party developers: “I want you to make a list of every app any customer would ever want to use,” he told Forstall. “And then […]