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Developer of the Overcast app on iOS and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast. Powered by coffee and an unreasonable amount of Phish. Blog: https://marco.org/ Podcast: nostr:npub1f30hfd950xn3cpyhdmzf865vqk6mg60uw9jd5jhlrl7dap55jrcskjd2kp App: nostr:npub10exw0d2e66x6ev6fg0pfflah0kfegjyhnx7tns6608fmjx3sqrfqnmf560
"Apple [UI design] took on an impossible task… And even if the premise was solid, I still wish I could say: they did the best they could, given the goal. But that’s not true either: they did a poor job consistently applying the metaphors and designing the icons themselves.”
tonsky.me
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
 Yup. Tahoe's redesign, perfectly summarized: self-inflicted problems, executed poorly, contradicting their own stated principles. Good riddance to its DRI. Fingers crossed for a better macOS 27.
I didn't realize that Hetzner had expanded to the US. And their prices are WAAAAYYY cheaper than Linode’s now. (Turns out that charging 20% higher prices for the same resources over ~5 years in the web-hosting business makes you pretty easy to beat.) Seriously looking at Hetzner now. Any experiences running medium-scale applications there, like maybe 20 server instances with ~a terabyte of databases? Long-term reliability?
Michael Tsai - Blog - Moving From Linode to Hetzner
Stumped by this one. Setting up an iPad with iCloud restore, and none of the apps are downloading automatically. Tapping one brings this up. I'm on my Wi-Fi network, other connectivity works… and while this iPad does have cellular, no plan has ever been activated on it yet. Reboots and Reset Network Settings haven't fixed it. iPadOS 26.1. Tapping "Download" immediately downloads the item over Wi-Fi. Anyone ever see this? Any ideas? image
After a decade, [@_Davidsmith](
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David Smith (@_Davidsmith@mastodon.social)
2.03K Posts, 320 Following, 17.3K Followers · Independent app developer. Independent in general. Maker of Widgetsmith, Pedometer++, Sleep++ and Wa...
 ) and I have published the final episode of Under The Radar. We're incredibly proud of our ten-year catalog of 30-minute discussions on development, marketing, monetization, work/life balance, and mental health for app developers. We've heard from so many of you already (thanks!), and the show also brought incredible value to David and me, for both our businesses and our friendship. We had a great run! Thanks for listening, everyone.
Relay
Under the Radar - Relay
From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar was all about independent app development. It was rarely longer than 30 minutes.
Every few years, I have to sign into AWS to do some minor thing, and there are 40 new levels of complexity to basic tasks, scary new terms and settings on everything that I don't want to touch, it turns out the one thing I needed doesn't exist anymore, and now I need to first create a user management system to set up assignment roles to tag my management assets so I can define an access policy for the one goddamn setting I was looking for
“OpenAI and Ive [are] working on a device roughly the size of a smartphone that users would communicate with through a camera, microphone and speaker. One person suggested it might have multiple cameras.” So… like… a phone? “…designed to sit on a desk or table but can also be carried around by the user.” So… like… a phone? “…sensors would gather data throughout the day that would help to build its virtual assistant’s ‘memory.’” So… like… a phone?
Ars Technica
OpenAI, Jony Ive struggle with technical details on secretive new AI gadget
ChatGPT maker working with former Apple design boss to launch personal assistant.