This is probably the big one: browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-...
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This is probably the big one: browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-...
They've talked fairly openly about the fact that Arc just had too high of a novelty tax to attract the kind of user base that they (or their investors) are seeking.
It's definitely the uneven corners that throw me.
There are aspects of the visuals that can (and will!) change over time, but this core principle of constant application of behavior is what us 3rd party designers and developers should be taking from this material
Liquid Glass cannot be described as a linear series of states. It feels like a living object that behaves in very specific ways in relation to surrounding environment and interaction. I find this incredibly inspiring.
Yet another take about Liquid Glass:
Liquid Glass feels like one of the purest embodiments of the "design with behaviors not states" idea that ο£ΏDesign put forth in their Designing Fluid Interfaces talk (way back in 2018!) since the fluid multitasking system itself.
I wonder if itβs a matter of target audience. Anthropic seems heavily invested in technical audiences, ChatGPT less so.
That said, generating interactive experiences for interacting with content on the fly is a good idea in any case.
Incredible 2 train moment last night. Five people in head to toe Knicks gear & celebratory mood. They've got a boombox, they're dancing. Most people minding their own business. But slowly the joy and chants are infectious til nearly the whole car is at least nodding along. New York's still got it.
Tech neck is real.
While the focus on the App Store injunction has been mostly on the commission rate, what's been overlooked is just how far the tools of the App Store have fallen behind.
For the average person out there, the idea of going somewhere like Squarespace, Framer, Webflow, etc and being able to say "make a website for my wedding based on this theme", and then iterating on it with natural language, is like magic.
But it seems like two separate ideas are getting conflated.
It is entirely possible to feel a real sense of creative joy from the practice (especially for someone who isn't technical enough to code and doesn't have the taste to design) while the actual output at a code level is a disaster.
Do you think this is a perspective informed by your ability to code? For a lot of people that canβt code, it feels like theyβd have a sense of creation that they literally couldnβt have had before.
If Obj-C had Swiftβs enums, then Iβd pick it every time.
I disagree. The barrier to entry is definitely higher with UIKit, but the opaque (and pretty rigid) nature of SwiftUI is much harder to actually live with.
π Iβm very much team βprogrammatic UIsβ, but I think I prefer UIKit almost all the time.
When I was coming up, the only option was layoutSubviews.
With SwiftUI, I think that it's really important to remember that as a developer you do not control the UI. Instead, you make recommendations to a block box that ultimately spits out your UI.
SwiftUI is kinda the worst.
In my experience the trick is design your data flow with an eye toward supporting interfaces on multiple platforms, but don't get bogged down in optimizing too early. Work toward the interface you want to release first, then optimize as you go.
Remarkable how Congress passed a law, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld itβ¦and now everyone is simply pretending that all didnβt happen
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/t...
Itβs about time. Today weβre removing the waitlist and making Record Club generally available to everyone!
Come join us. π
There's no doubt that some really interesting things can be achieved with SwiftUI (there's tons of evidence to support that), but man... what an incredibly difficult framework to become proficient in. I personally don't find it user friendly at all.
I guess weβll find up when tickets go up next week. π«
Will not miss the Brooklyn show.
Klein has put out a lot of great episodes about attention recently. One of my favorites isn't directly about attention, but rather the impact of apps that demand so much of our attention on our ability to understand our own taste. It's really stuck with me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Day 1 at Airbnb!
We're only two years away from The Onion Premium Sex Bowlβ’ featuring the worst two teams in the country. It's 9 quarters long and there is no penalty for roughing the kicker.
Iβm in my tiki bar era.
Muskβs wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Muskβs wealth in 2024: $447 Billion
Bezosβs wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezosβs wealth in 2024: $249 Billion
Zuckerbergβs wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerbergβs wealth in 2024: $224 Billion
Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
