best advice i have for traveling to a city where you don’t speak the language: cram the metro stop names into mangled english. I can’t remember the actual stop names but I *can* remember “take the 9 and get off at Rachel Dratch, then walk down to Quarter September”

or maybe our workstations are no longer clunky, single-purpose boxes and, as such, our input devices are more versatile. i had one of those creator micro pads for Figma but never used it because my hand is already on the keyboard. and the keyboard is very efficient for me.

a whodunnit murder mystery on what happened to all the good iPad apps

holy hell this ios beta feels amazing. so smooth and by far the best implementation of the glass effect.

bullying works 9to5mac.com/2025/08/11/ios…

alright who wants to take one for the team and make a new version of developer.limneos.net the old one had awful web design, search was glacial, they added headers super slowly, and now it requires a login. wide open for the taking.

idk who created swift RegexBuilders but they need a mental health intervention

GPT-5 still sucks at writing good SwiftUI btw

claude just deleted a unit test in order to fix it!! i've only heard stories about it but I've never seen it do it first-hand. i feel like I just saw a celebrity.

blog post so good I almost want to use UIKit. almost.

do you think the vision pro would’ve sold better if they had introduced it with Kesha singing “VR who VR”

The idea of having complete context on a person is a myth—context is vast, dynamic, and often intangible. No AI can capture it Bad Contextual Computing UX isn’t from a lack of context, but from a lack of shared understanding of it. Wrote about it here: blog.viditb.com/the-paradox-of…

i can’t think of anything to say here, it just straight up violates every fiber of my being.

you know what fuck you (un-nikita biers your screenshots)

“humble concrete blobs” nytimes.com/2025/08/13/art…