You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong.

Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.

Free Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt has ended its email notification service that warns users of expiring certificates.

The company blamed this on rising costs.

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/06/26/expiration-notification-service-has-ended/

📢 We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We ❤️ Signal, too!

https://signal.art/addstickers/#pack_id=43a9c3e16e24b2f182e2d3e03a7e1338&pack_key=87a129905fbe7371568eef6485f93a81b7569a963bf711063bf804123a075083

Prediction: There are going to be so many bad UIs because developers look at the shader output and think “that's so cool!” — and then they never think about the usability of that glass surface.

Actually, that's not a prediction — it's a promise. The same thing happened when Aqua introduced transparency to the masses at the turn of the century. So little alpha, so little thought.

On today's hardware, making things _look_ cool isn't too hard. What's going to be hard is making things _work_ cool.

Meta is under investigation for a privacy violation called "localhost tracking." This process allowed Meta to link users' real identities to their web browsing activity, even if they used VPNs, incognito mode, and deleted cookies.

The process involves the Facebook or Instagram app listening for incoming traffic on local network ports and exchanging information with Meta's tracking scripts in users' web browsers.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

#privacy