Mastodawn

Jonathan Clarke 3d ago

Vidit Bhargava 3d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116309404063715397

100%. The standard of apps on Apple TV is frankly abysmal and most of the crap is on the video player side.

I believe most of the issues stem from some crappy cross platform framework that these apps work with.

Jonathan Clarke 4d ago

Richard Campbell 5d ago

And you wonder why the LLMs get things wrong...

Jonathan Clarke Mar 24

Gavin Shoebridge Mar 24

I like the easy ones.

Jonathan Clarke Mar 24

Xcode Releases Mar 24

🚨 #Xcode 26.4 has been released! 🚨

It is identical to the Release Candidate, so if you have that, you're all set!

Specific details are here: https://techhub.social/@xcodereleases/116251634196450728

As always, the https://xcodereleases.com website, API, and RSS feed have been updated with the latest information. Support this project at https://opencollective.com/xcodereleases!

Xcode Releases (@[email protected])

🚨 #Xcode 26.4 RC 1 is out! 🚨 The SDKs in #Xcode 26.4 RC 1 (build 17E192, requires macOS 26.2+) are: macOS 26.4 (25E236) iOS 26.4 (23E237) watchOS 26.4 (23T238) tvOS 26.4 (23L236) visionOS 26.4 (23O238) Clang 21.0.0 (2100.0.123.102) Swift 6.3 (6.3.0.123.5) The https://xcodereleases.com website, API, and RSS feed have been updated with the latest information. Support this project at https://opencollective.com/xcodereleases!

TechHub

Jonathan Clarke Mar 22

Parker Ortolani Mar 22

"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers.": https://parkerortolani.blog/2026/03/21/were-the-last-people-in.html

"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers."

I already shared this clip on X and Bluesky earlier today, but I wanted to say a little bit more about it. I think that this newly discovered footage of Steve Jobs congratulating Apple employees at an outdoor all-hands meeting at the Infinite Loop campus following MacWorld New York in 1999 is some of the most important that exists of him. It’s awfully rare footage, not just because it’s an internal meeting but because it shows a behind the scenes look at life at Apple in those early days of his return.

Jonathan Clarke Mar 21

Steve Troughton-Smith Mar 21

I do wish App Store Connect had a checkbox somewhere to automatically scale pricing by purchasing power region to region. You can do this, manually, by remembering to set individual prices per region every time, but that's a nightmare. You hear about this from Brazilian customers all the time, especially, where App Store price tiers are perhaps 2X or more what they should be

Jonathan Clarke Mar 21

Bob LeFridge

Mar 21

Quite famous kiwi journalist Peter Arnett has died in Los Angeles aged 91. He became a celebrated war correspondent for US networks and won a Pulitzer prize for his reporting.

As the ODT headline says, "From Bluff to Bagdad".

R.I.P.

https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/obituary-peter-arnett-bluff-baghdad

#PeterArnett #Obit

Obituary: Peter Arnett, from Bluff to Baghdad

Of the many New Zealand journalists who have reported around the globe, Peter Arnett arguably became one of the most visible on the international...

Otago Daily Times Online News

Jonathan Clarke Mar 16

Marcin Wichary Mar 16

In this promotional photo from Apple, the headphones are more expensive than the computer.

Jonathan Clarke Mar 13

David Smith Mar 12

For a recent Widgetsmith feature I wanted to know how common the use of Display Zoom was among iOS users, but I couldn't find any published data on it. So I added the necessary analytics for collecting this data point, so that I could publish.

I found that around 1.9% of users have it enabled. Which is much lower than I would have guessed.

It is most common for with SE and Mini models, and least common for the Pro models.

Full write-up: https://david-smith.org/blog/2026/03/12/display-zoom-stats/

Jonathan Clarke Mar 12

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