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Perfect example of what you’re talking about: today a coworker of mine showed off a vibecoded data viewer app that lets him view our analytics in a way that works well for his job,…

It’s possible at least some of those people enquiring about the AI strategy are looking to find out if a company is about to ruin itself with bad decisions around AI. And some othe…

Sure, in theory Twitter’s website could be very simple and straightforward, built on tried and true web technologies. In practice, they wrote an entirely bespoke web app that is ev…

But the implication of this argument is that the benefit of PWAs is to the developer rather than the user , right? If PWAs actually benefited users, then creating one instead of an…

This is the contradiction: Apples’s defense of its in-app payments rule is that having a single payment system owned by the platform used by every app on that platform provides the…

I think they're mad about the "Apps" section on the Summary tab. But I don't really get the complaints or see it as an advertisement; it's at the very bottom and users may genuinel…

The idea that minimum wages kills jobs is not as well supported as you might think. People commonly take overly-simplified econ 101 labor market theories as gospel when the empiric…

This drives me crazy with Slack. In 2019 I can't have two chats open at once? Madness.

Yes, but FaceTime is not attempting to be a camera; it is attempting to simulate a face-to-face conversation. That it uses a camera is an implementation detail. The fact that the d…

FWIW, the Apple developers discussing SwiftUI on Twitter are careful to point out that SwiftUI is not designed to be a wrapper around UIKit. Much of the implementation currently us…

SwiftUI has state. The idea is that all layout code is defined as a pure function of the state. Basically you can annotate properties with `@State` and each time one of those prope…

With the caveat that I also have no particular inside knowledge of this, I think you're on to something. I keep seeing these demos which show virtual video game characters or hyper…

Gruber didn't call it a fraud. He said the demo was not "distinguishable from a fraud," which is true. His actual recommendation is the title of the post, which is that we should h…

I mean, Gruber is technically correct that this demo is indistinguishable from a fraud. And yes, Google certainly wouldn't demo a completely non-existent technology, but they might…

The prevailing theory is that Uber currently controls the customer relationship for ride-hailing, and that inertia will carry them forward. I personally don't see it. Uber has alre…