I trusted the Apple Store app when it said ~ “Wait. We’re still getting ready.” …for an hour.

Wow, I was able to preorder a phone on the website. Wow, now I’m waiting a month for the thing.

Why was the app less reliable than the web, Apple? Can you post-mortem that?

Wanted to wait for SF6 hype to die down a little before posting, but I made a little game with NOCA and Jessie Char!

Spin the pot and take your shot in Tanghulu, the fruit poking game

Available on ios: apps.apple.com/app/id64445884…

(android coming soon)

Reddit post by someone who mistakenly watched the D&D movie with descriptive audio for visually impaired people on, thought it was an artistic choice to have a DM narrating the story since it was a D&D movie, and ended up liking it a lot reddit.com/r/movies/comme…

If there are two main things Homer tells us about Achilles in the Iliad , it is that he is swift-footed, and his anger is deep and slow to mend. In many senses, this makes him the originator of The Fast and the Furious. In this essay I will

Apple’s Assistive Access is stunning, refreshing, and genius. Bravo to everyone at Apple.

apple.com/newsroom/2023/…

An IBM slide from 1979.

No. This is false. I helped to create two different billion-user projects at Apple: WebKit and iPhone. I was on these teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It’s not an essential part of doing great work.

I’m reading that Math Blaster is glacial to load and full of fluff, a far cry from the excellent series I remember from the late 80s and 90s. What’s good these days?

Anybody else seeing `NSManagedObjectContextDidSaveNotification.userInfo[NSInsertedObjectsKey] == nil` instead of an empty NSSet, as of the iOS 16 runtime? Not finding any chat on Twitter… Have we somehow made this happen? Sounds innocuous but it’s caused a P0 in our syncing code

I’ve set Podcasts to not download over cellular and have never chosen to download over cellular, yet it’s downloaded almost half a gig in just 18 or so days. I can’t tell why. That’s a large portion of my cell plan for the whole month, due I guess to a bug! Apple Support, advice?

Here’s the way I see it: you can own and trade individual stocks, or you can serve the public interest as a member of Congress, but you shouldn’t be able to do both at the same time. We must ban members from owning and trading stocks. #StopTheTrades

somebody should invent an OS that's cool and good, instead of a bunch of unix clones that run separated apps. gimme a weirdo event database or something

This Wednesday, August 3rd puzzle is almost old news, but NYT Crossword editors, let’s tighten this up next time! The quotes aren’t curly and the date range isn’t an en dash. And I’m not sure, but shouldn’t 30- and 49-Across highlight each other?