Alexander Klimetschek

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Happy parent, German expat in SF, Principal Scientist @ Adobe (server and enterprise), Apache committer and loving the intarwebs (without the haters). He/him.
Codehttps://github.com/alexkli
Biohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/klimetschek/

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I'm tired boss

@auniverseaway Timm and space is all relative, you know.
Okay hear me out: fingerprint reader on the mouse instead of on the keyboard

"Apple [UI design] took on an impossible task… And even if the premise was solid, I still wish I could say: they did the best they could, given the goal. But that’s not true either: they did a poor job consistently applying the metaphors and designing the icons themselves.”

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

Yup. Tahoe's redesign, perfectly summarized: self-inflicted problems, executed poorly, contradicting their own stated principles.

Good riddance to its DRI. Fingers crossed for a better macOS 27.

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me
@Joekw @Viditb I find them rarely useful (even from Apple‘s apps). It seems many apps don’t even have them. I personally hate the interface and highly prefer a web help experience that I can google or AI prompt.

A brief rant / thought dump on why I think the every "iPhone Killer" will fail.

TLDr;
1. There's no general purpose computer
2. There's no Joe Six Pack
3. The iPhone was neither meant to be a general purpose computer nor did it replace the Macintosh.

https://blog.viditb.com/why-every-iphone-killer-will-fail/

Why every "iPhone killer" will fail

Here are three bitter realities that a lot of people who want to figure out what comes after the iPhone fail to see: There's no general purpose computerThere's no Joe Six PackThe iPhone was neither meant to be a general purpose computer nor did it replace the Macintosh.So if

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https://replaceyourboss.ai/ is an absolutely brilliant illustration what AI would look like if it served workers (without toppling company structures).

AI CEOs - and everyone's lives will be better!

@dreid @janl well now you’ve given the attackers the hint what to do next: make the exploit hidden and delayed, so the vulnerable dependency bas time to spread into codebases first while staying undetected, before actually doing malicious things at scale
@ralphruthe Echt, seit wann haben Maulwürfe Strom oder gar Kühlschränke?
@nolan I actually do have the opposite experience: instead of wasting time on figuring out mundane code or getting tempted to gold plating of details, I have more time to think about the big picture and those shower thoughts.