‘It's troubling to me that I can unlock my Android phone and feel a sense of calm wash over me as I look at a UI that is fun and unique, but also consistently legible. The fact I'm feeling any relief looking at Android's UI is not a great sign.’ birchtree.me/blog/ios-and-a…

‘I’m surprised that Spotify, YT Music, & other services haven’t understood how to do a good segue. For 95% of these examples, this is all sensible and respectful, understanding musical phrases and rhythm to put two songs together in a way that breathes.’ james.cridland.net/blog/2025/appl…

huh, interesting Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

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just realized why they reverted back to the insane liquid gl ass in beta 4. now the public beta people get to see it, once, and they will again frostify in beta 5 #wwdc

‘The premise for web1 was that everyone on the internet would be both a publisher and consumer of content as well as a publisher and consumer of infrastructure. However – and I don’t think this can be emphasized enough – that is not what people want.’ moxie.org/2022/01/07/web…

just used 'as const' for the first time, now an expert

I swear podcasting has some of the weirdest stuff mypodlify.com/channel/podcas… podcasts.apple.com/ag/podcast/pod…

‘Now, media companies need to prove their worth to well-compensated independents who can take or leave the corporate relationship — but whose small businesses also have their own stresses and commercial gaps.’ semafor.com/article/07/27/…

very cool, almost like "a queue within a queue" - automatically handles noisy publishers within a single queue aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/…

‘"As part of this work [Back to Starbucks], we plan to sunset our mobile order and pickup only concept in fiscal 2026," said the CEO. "We found this format to be overly transactional and lacking the warmth and human connection that defines our brand."’ the-sun.com/money/14858761…