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This isn’t unique to Apple. The Windows developers were very vocal about a full screen start menu in Windows 8 being a bad change. We were told that we weren’t allowed to talk abou…

> In the early iOS beta, the new tab button was at the top of Safari, as far away from your thumbs as it could be. It’s relatively recent in iOS history that Safari’s address bar i…

They list sponsors on their website: https://ladybird.org/#sponsors

I definitely went into the wrong restroom a couple of times after an office move to the opposite side of building 9.

Enough people use 867-5309 as their grocery loyalty card's phone number that it's often got savings available at the gas pump. Use the local area code. It works great for filling u…

I was simply providing a single data point. Please feel free to use that to support your theory or ignore it.

From a pure numbers perspective, if you work 40 hours/week and commute 3.5 unpaid hours/day, then dropping the commute and taking a 50% pay cut results in only a 28% hourly pay cut…

I have data for myself. My annual driving dropped from roughly 9,000 miles to 5,000 miles when I switched to WFH. In addition to avoiding the daily back and forth, I’d often make a…

There is a “Comic Code Coding Essentials“ bundle for $30, licensed for up to 5 users. Unfortunately, it’s at the very bottom of the page so it’s easy to miss.

I think your link got cut off. Here’s the direct link to the section on when to use typed throws. I hadn’t read this before, and it changes how I’ll approach them. Thanks for point…

If you want a more software focused take on it, there’s The Phoenix Project. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...

I didn't want to have to organize my work and personal repos using a directory structure, so I use matching on the remote instead. Since my job uses a GitHub organization, I'm able…

At my last job, we slowly started adopting Swift in 2016 by writing some unit tests with it. Once we felt comfortable and established some coding conventions, we started adding som…

I totally understand that you have to play the game, even if I think the game makes search results worse. Appreciate your consideration and the post itself. (I'm an iOS dev that's …

Yes, I'm asking for a bit of work to be done so that I can read their future posts like this. I spend money on well-crafted indie software but typically only after following the au…

This post was great, so I added the RSS feed to my reader and I almost instantly removed it. I always knew those "7 Best Writing Apps for iPhone (2024)" posts were only there for S…

> For instance, the NSPopover is a good candidate for bubbles that hint at stuff in the Mac app. An iOS counterpart sadly does not exist, so no bubbles in the iOS app. Ignoring pop…

20 years ago, I was a college kid who built a running log website as an alternative to keeping paper records. My college cross-country team lived all over the country, so this let …

Thank you for making me one of today’s lucky 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/

In high school, I took two semesters of typing on typewriters. For our tests, Mrs. Beck would take the correction ribbons out. There was no point in trying to fix anything, keep go…

> This is the same for encryption: the number 1 threat is lost encryption keys This is so true. I worked on v1 of BitLocker. Key management was a much bigger feature than the actua…

I assume any anonymous surveys at work that roll up through my management chain aren’t anonymous at all. My manager will get responses from only ~10 people and my writing style wil…

There are differences between iCloud and local backup. For example, iCloud backup doesn’t backup your Notes or Health data but local backup can. Sync != backup — without a backup, …