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The overwhelmingly most common one I see is cyclists not stopping at STOP signs (or worse, red lights), and the real crazy ones appear to not even slow down . It is illegal to run …

And it hasn’t evolved with cloud/sandboxing/magic-paths/whatever. Like today on the Mac I used the popup directory path to try to navigate to the parent directory (since it showed …

Unfortunately impossible to read on my mini screen… Seems like the viewport is fixed so zoom is disallowed. (Sites should never do this.)

This is also one of the many cases of Apple not following their own guidelines. They suggested that Touch Bar items should act statically like keyboard keys and not be used to disp…

Brings back memories; the Apple Platinum look appeared around the time when 90% of the UI was black-and-white or at least boring so it really seemed to instantly transform the Mac …

A really cool example of good debugging especially without the source. Also a good reminder that the slow thing may not be what you think and if you aren’t profiling you don’t real…

Proper up-front never occurred because Apple refuses to implement a simple free-trial-period mechanism. And it is impossible to filter store searches in a way that tells you which …

The only way to really deter this stuff is to make it cost the sender something per spam . Bonus points if the user can feed back into the system to discourage truly unpopular noti…

Like any organization, things have to be reliable and some open-source doesn’t really have the support model figured out. And if cost is an issue, that is more an indictment of how…

“… in that order ” is the full quote, and omitting that from the title really changes the point. Ultimately if you don’t work on the first two, it isn’t enough to have the third. P…

Lots of great and specific points in these threads, many of which I have personally seen. SwiftUI was really promising at first, and even fun to use (nothing like ripping out entir…

Not limited to games, either; “pre-animation” makes regular software feel sluggish too. Having actions taken immediately is critical.

Their need to develop so many cross-platform apps should have been more than enough justification to do an outstanding job of Catalyst/SwiftUI/whatever-is-recommended. They could h…

Well whether you add “site:.edu” or not, Google still does the thing where they just spit out a pile of extra “matches” that don’t contain your search phrase AT ALL . Just thrown i…

What seems to be lost in these “redesigns” is the why : why are you doing it? If there isn’t a list of benefits long enough to justify the cost and possible risk, well, that’s a pr…

Hypothetically if you’ve documented how you expect contributions to be, and someone doesn’t follow that, then at least they can’t say that they couldn’t have known what you wanted …

I tried for a really, really long time to implement backward compatibility (and was even impressed with things I came up with) but Apple makes it incredibly hard. Certain hard boun…

The worst part of all of this is that their stores DO have heaping mountains of apps that should be removed : the outright scams, the useless apps full of trackers, etc. Absolutely…

I think it would have been interesting if Netflix had shopped around its tech stack, kind of how companies that make games can also sell game-making engines. Maybe they could have …

The upsells on TurboTax are getting a lot more shameless in recent years. I saw the exact same one pop up at least 2-3 times. The one that really aggravated me though was the one a…

There are lots of variants of this kind of unnecessary “friction” and I wish that legislation would be able to ban all of these awful behaviors instead of just specific examples of…

An app of any size could need: - web hosting - $99/year fee (also to Apple) - having to spend time re-fixing things you already did, that broke because Apple likes to update its AP…

It’s like they walled-in the garden, look only at the walls when there’s a problem, and meanwhile the scammers are parachuting in.

It’s absolutely soul-crushing to see the software market warped by broken store models. Legitimate developers can’t seem to convince people to pay anywhere near enough to sustain a…

He makes a good point that work computers especially benefit from sane defaults so anything the OS doesn’t do well out of the box (even if fixable 3rd party) is no-go for many user…