So @oskargroth pointed Claude and Hopper at SwiftUI to try to figure out what's going wrong with List performance, and it has a scathing take on the architecture it's discerned from the disassembly…

"this is the code of a team that's been debugging reuse failures for years. They've been patching and optimizing within the architecture rather than questioning whether the architecture is right for this use case."

(/via the site we don't talk about)

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

“Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason... a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.”

Or driving any kind of car. AI, like cars, aims to reconfigure everyday life in a way that’s vastly more energy-hungry and polluting… and profitable for a few.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts

Random thought.

If public libraries didn't already exist, capitalism wouldn't let you invent it. Can you imagine how many billions Jeff Bezos would plough into fighting the idea, destroying any politician who dared to back it?

Support your local library.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@256/116200308172903205

When we had * real * widgets that actually did stuff in macOS and weren’t just sitting there “looking pretty.”

I read the piece again and became even more disappointed.

2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said."

2009: