James Rantanen

@Rantanen
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iOS Design System, Ux, and platform engineering @ Stitch Fix. he/him
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Believe it or not, June marks the Iconfactory's 30th year in business. To help celebrate the occasion we're kicking things off with a sale of some of our most popular apps, plus other surprises. 🤓🎉

We hope you'll join us and thanks to all our fans, clients and supporters, we wouldn't be here without you.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2026/06/the-iconfactory-turns-30-how-time-flies/

#IconfactoryTurns30

tired: We're scaling down our AI pilot because it costs too much and doesn't have any real benefits 📉

wired: Due to changing economic circumstances, I've made the tough decision to lay off 50% of our agent workforce 📈

have just seen my favorite meme of the year so far, hands down.
In 2025 MAGA taught us that the opposite of DEI isn’t merit, it’s mediocre people running institutions into the ground.
My age: I get this joke 🤣
#humor #phones
Instead of calling it Secret Santa, can we not call it Nondisclosure Claus?
One awesome use of AI would be for Apple to continue chatting with the scammers when you mark a text/message as ‘delete and report junk’. Would even be better if it later send you a transcript.
A weird thing I've seen over and over again in AI discourse: "AI is awful at [thing I'm an expert in], but great for [thing I'm not an expert in]!"
I want to live in a world in which saying “I don't know” is considered more valuable than spewing plausible-sounding nonsense.

New Xcode beta, so that means a new Simulator icon.

Select the Simulator in the Finder, do Get Info, and drop this PNG file on the app icon in the upper-left.

It makes more sense now, huh?

https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/115034159275902321