Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Photoshop’s “Modern” Spectrum User Interface
Marcin Wichary: The first field is not focused, so you cannot start typing the number after opening this window. You need to immediately move your hand to the mouse. If you click on any field, the value is not pre-selected, so you cannot start typing a new number then. […] Clicking on parts of the […]
Zig’s Anti-AI Contribution Policy
Simon Willison (Hacker News): Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely […]
Giving Up on the Vision Pro
Jason Snell: From the first time I put on the Vision Pro, I never could get Optic ID to work quite right. I couldn’t set it up to work for the longest time, and when I finally did, using it to unlock the device only worked sporadically. […] Worse, though, is that I also wasn’t […]
External Purchase Fee Stay Reversed
Tim Hardwick: On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision letting Apple keep its current zero-fee link-out commission structure in place while it appeals to the Supreme Court. The reversal means Apple now has to return to a lower court to work out what fees it can charge developers who steer […]
I’m Starting to Wonder What They’re Smoking Over There at MacRumors
600 words from Hartley Charlton at MacRumors expounding upon a wacko post on Weibo suggesting that Apple is debating dropping MagSafe from all iPhones (which post, translated to English, is only 70-some words). Given that last year’s 16e didn’t have MagSafe and this year’s 17e does, you don’t need a pseudonymous Chinese weatherman to know which way the MagSafe wind is blowing in Cupertino.