Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Acme Weather 1.0
Adam Grossman: Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app. […] We enjoyed our time at Apple. So why did we leave to start another weather company? It’s simple: when looking at the landscape of the countless weather apps out there, many of them lovely, we found ourselves feeling unsatisfied. […] […]
Ars Technica’s AI-Fabricated Quotes
Maggie Harrison Dupré (Hacker News, more context): The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed. Earlier this month, Ars retracted the story after it was found to include fake quotes […]
Paul Brainerd, RIP
Todd Bishop (via Adam Engst): In early 1984, Paul Brainerd and four engineers packed into his old Saab and another car and drove south on Interstate 5 from Seattle. They had been laid off after Kodak bought their employer, Atex, a company whose computerized text-processing systems let newspaper reporters and editors write and edit stories […]
★ The MacBook Neo
May the MacBook Neo live so long that its name becomes inapt.
AirPods Control Center Design in iOS 26
Marco Arment: I fail using this UI at least once a week. It’s the AirPods Control Center volume pane, where I go to put my AirPods Pro into Adaptive mode (which I have configured a hundred times to be part of the long-press selection, but that always gets inexplicably forgotten). What you’re SUPPOSED to do […]