Trent Shell

@trentshell
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115668929814939942

Genuinely the most exciting Star Wars news I've heard since the release of The Force Awakens.

Look, I have zero design experience and even I can tell you this corner radius is wrong. What is going on over there?
Boredom is essential. Here’s why. “You need to be bored. You will have less meaning and you will be more depressed if you never are bored. I mean, it couldn’t be clearer.” https://kottke.org/25/09/you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why
You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.

Here’s a short video by Arthur Brooks (that you are probably watching on your phone) about why you should log off, put you

kottke.org
I don’t understand the target market for the iPhone Air. It’s a worse product than the base level iPhone and will be $200 more expensive.
Will the Apple Watch sleep score grade on a curve for those of us who have small children?
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
MacStories Deals (@[email protected])

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MacStories on Mastodon

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

I totally get why 1Password pivoted, these past few years, toward the enterprise market—and why it started shipping a cross-platform web-based UI. The market dynamics are tough, and especially if they wanted to grow. But it made the software worse for me. More: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/software-change-stability-imperfect-markets.../
Software, change, stability, imperfect markets… — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

Some reflections on 1Password.

Still begging for an iMessage setting on group chats to mute just reaction Tapback notifications.

The extended family back-to-school photos iMessage thread is popping alerts like crazy with who hearted and thumbsed-up what. I end up muting the whole thread and then missing actual messages.