Every now and then I stumble onto some old school software UI from the 90s or early 2000s and I have a quick rush of excitement like I would feel back then. Software had soul. Nowadays is mostly white/gray, self-effacing and a bit dull.
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At times I wonder how many engineering-hours are lost collectively because of slow compiler build times. Even just within Apple, entire features are not built because of this, many bugs not fixed. There should be high incentive to drastically reduce build times.
"Apple reportedly took this action in response to an order from the Russian government." https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116335911325139769
MacRumors.comApple to Issue Rare iOS 18 Software Update for DarkSword Exploit https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/01/apple-ios-18-patch-darksword-exploit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Ada PalmerCities can now achieve “what was once thought impossible”: cutting air pollution by 20–45% in little more than a decade. A new analysis has found that 19 cities, including London, San Francisco and Beijing, cut levels of both PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by more than 20% since 2010, driven by measures such as cycle lanes, electric vehicles and restrictions on polluting traffic. The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/12/london-san-francisco-and-beijing-achieve-remarkable-reductions-in-air-pollution
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Apple right now lacks someone who has both good design taste and the political power to say no to designers. Steve Jobs was such a person.
People asking Apple to flood Xcode with AI... can we just start by making "Jump to definition" as fast and reliable as it was in Objective-C? Because we're still not there. Also, quickly accessible generated headers for our code please? Often times we just want to look at the interface of our files, not the implementation.
