Mastodawn

Coby 4d ago

Getting new customers is hard actually

Coby Feb 4

I’m becoming a real fan of pencil.dev

Coby Feb 3

Alex Russell Feb 3

Seems like a dam is (finally) breaking; here's just a small set of the "wow, Apple...really?" posts from the past week:

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-captured/
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5

Liz Lopatto, Anil Dash, and Charlie Warzel were far ahead on all of this.

Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

Apple used to stand for something. Now Tim Cook gifts golden statues to Trump, removes apps at the administration's request, and cozies up to accused rapists at White House screenings. The company I once admired has become morally bankrupt, but leaving the ecosystem feels almost impossible.

Loopwerk

Coby Jan 25

Justin Searls Jan 25

Look on the bright side, Apple chose not to ruin Aperture's icon last week. https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

Daniel Kennett - A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be said about the simplicity of older software, but most of my fondness for those days is nostalgia. An exception to that, however, is Apple's Aperture.

Coby Jan 24

Elisabeth Hendrickson Jan 23

New cover drop! @joeltosi and I are so stoked about the cover for our book coming out from IT Rev in the fall. WOOOT!

Coby Jan 15

Justin Searls Jan 15

Oh, Apple. Scheduled a "Send Later" iMessage to Becky for 10 AM yesterday, but because of time zone changes I never experienced 10 AM yesterday and instead of scheduling based on a real timestamp it just left the message in a permanent unsent state.

Great job, everyone.

Coby Jan 13

Jeff Atwood Oct 11

I have no idea what the source of this image is, but yeah, I Laughed Out Loud.

Coby Jan 1

Full Stack Syntax Jan 1

In Anger

The word once scared me. Anger was the opposite of “safe”, as a child.

https://www.fullstacksyntax.com/in-anger/

In Anger

The word once scared me. Anger was the opposite of “safe”, as a child. To be In Anger was to be out of control, a violent grasping for something unnamed, but should be obvious to all who are in its path. Anger was always followed by shame, then sadness, then

Full Stack Syntax

Coby Jan 1

Latest StoryTime Alpha update. NEWS: We're looking for founding customers!

https://buttondown.com/storytime-team/archive/december-update/

Coby Dec 31

Corey S Powell Dec 31

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

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