When apps talk about being scriptable, they usually talk about automating a specific task, like "preparing my podcast thumbnail". But what I want is customization, like "here's a pool of new shortcuts to prepare any image, for any purpose, as efficiently as possible".

On the absence of Apple's pro apps on iPad from Jason Snell sixcolors.com/post/2022/10/t…

The DaVinci Resolve team joins my shortlist of greatest development teams in the world (alongside Figma and VS Code). Teams seemingly capable of accomplishing feats impossible for the rest of us. A move for the pantheon. blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/…

hachyderm.io/@robenkleene

Programmers to people running their business on Excel: "Heh, why do that when you could devote your whole life to learning to do it this other way that's better."

Has a difficult UI (e.g., something like Logic Pro or Blender) ever been created in a declarative UI framework?

TIL PowerPoint was first developed for Mac, was initially named Presenter and was bought later on by Microsoft winworldpc.com/product/powerp…

Whenever I think marketing doesn't work on me, I remind myself how often I've told the Microplane grater's origin story to friends and family.

I live in perpetual fear that I didn't right-click `Get Info > Open with: > Change All... > QuickTime` and maybe this random MP3 file is going to get added to my Music library when I open it...

The designers of this airport terminal really need to read up on their Christopher Alexander.

🔮 The Orb is here, and ready to shine in your SwiftUI apps! It's all open-sourced under the MIT license. Feel free to use and share as you please. github.com/metasidd/Orb A detailed thread on how I've built it. 👇 #swiftui #ios #apple #design #motion