Gabriel Nicholas: To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosity and peculiar square brackets, it is used only for building Mac and iPhone apps and would have faded into […]

Federico Viticci (Mastodon): I’ve been thinking about this video by Theo Browne for the past few days, especially in the aftermath of my story about working on the iPad and realizing its best apps are actually web apps.I think Theo did a great job contextualizing the history of Electron and how we got to this […]

Cory Doctorow (Hacker News, Amazon): I never would have read Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams’s tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta’s lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it.[…]The role Facebook played in the Christchurch quake transforms Wynn-Williams’s passion for […]

Joe Rossignol: Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the original Apple Watch launching in the United States and eight other countries around the world. Adrienne So (Hacker News): While it seems hard now to recall a time when the Apple Watch, or something similar, did not exist, the market hasn’t always been so obvious. It […]

Ettore Software (Reddit): As previously teased, we’ve rebuilt our flagship app from scratch in Swift – fully sandboxed – with a speedy new engine, a revamped interface and a slew of new features. Our hair is a lot thinner and greyer than it was 3 years ago when we embarked on this folly, but after […]