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@nathanjliu.com

30, London, in tech, of course

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The iPhone’s ‘Screen Unknown Callers’ settings page

The iPhone’s ‘Screen Unknown Callers’ settings page

It would be great if there was an option to disable this for say, one hour, when expecting a delivery or a call.

08.03.2026 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just had 8 consecutive ads on Instagram Reels 🥲

06.03.2026 20:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion Poll - Reform 23%, Green 21%, Con 16%, Lab 16%

Opinion Poll - Reform 23%, Green 21%, Con 16%, Lab 16%

Unbelievable.

03.03.2026 12:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Starmer put himself before his country, and destroyed his party. This is an incredible win for the Greens, but I want a Labour with principles and values, not politicking and incompetence.

27.02.2026 04:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An iOS sound recognition notification for “Doorbell”

An iOS sound recognition notification for “Doorbell”

Do not use Japanese public transport with this enabled.

25.02.2026 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You can still enable text but then look at this spacing.

This is Keynote, and I think they have done a decent job overall as functionality is the same.

28.01.2026 20:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Literally no idea what these mean and hovering takes 2 seconds before a tooltip appears.

28.01.2026 20:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This has been said before, but I think it's now certain.

Tim Cook isn't doing his fiduciary duty.

He is one of them.

26.01.2026 23:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To Siri: Is Bulgaria in the EU. Answer from Siri: Europe

To Siri: Is Bulgaria in the EU. Answer from Siri: Europe

"The answer I found is Europe"

26.01.2026 12:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A smart decision would be to bring Burnham into the cabinet. Neutralise him as a threat, bring talent into the government, and satisfy his supporters.

A failure of democracy and strategy.

25.01.2026 12:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Labour Party blocking Burnham from running is so clearly undemocratic and shows transparently just how corrupt and self-interested this leadership is.

Deeply unpopular and failing by their own metrics, they're blocking a popular candidate from the centre left who might actually improve things.

25.01.2026 12:31 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

Country before party, party before individual ambition.

Something Kier Starmer has chosen to forget.

25.01.2026 12:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don't understand people who ask the waiter for their favourite dish.

You know nothing about the waiter.

You don't know that their taste is anything like your taste.

Use your own head.

21.01.2026 00:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today a major real estate firm sent fully AI generated house photos.

There are two toilet rolls in the bathroom, one by the bath.

How do they get away with this. The apartment doesn't exist.

07.01.2026 22:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Say what you want about Liquid Glass, this is cool

06.01.2026 19:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

I am laughing and crying tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

06.01.2026 09:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New record by 1, and way too much America

04.01.2026 16:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's a funny Apple Maps quirk. In Dallas, where JFK was shot, there are X's engraved in the road for each shot.

Apple Maps scanned the area and thinks it's a railroad marker.

01.12.2025 01:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Siri what's my next call?

There's nothing called "call" in
your calendar.

Siri what's my next call? There's nothing called "call" in your calendar.

Yeah

20.11.2025 15:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I like a lot of the Liquid Glass icons people have criticised.

But this is SHAMBOLIC.

14.11.2025 04:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On the other hand

13.11.2025 11:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just got an Instagram advert for the hotel where I'm in bed.

Spy better!

13.11.2025 11:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I swear to fucking god if my iPhone autocorrects a good word to a name in my contacts ONE MORE TIME.

11.11.2025 11:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:

One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

10.11.2025 13:43 👍 1286 🔁 520 💬 41 📌 63

Kagi is the only other search engine that matches the quality of googles non-ai results for me.

Zero ads and logging whatsoever, but with a monthly cost.

09.11.2025 17:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Never forget

09.11.2025 16:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's amazing how good the traitors can be, partly by accident. Stupid, amazing, TV.

07.11.2025 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cool Liquid Glass status bar

06.11.2025 17:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is a bug I don't really understand how slipped into the iPadOS 26 release build.

02.11.2025 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First Past the Post eh? Two party system?

28.10.2025 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0