“Tech and Antitrust – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”

“(Open) source of anxiety – Increment: Open Source”

“Preventing the second Big Deal – Dorothea Salo”

“Touch interfaces aren’t just bad on phones”

Re-watching Hellraiser. Such a fan of Clive Barker’s movies.

The plan was to try to work this weekend. Instead I seem to have accidentally written the first draft of a 3500 word essay on why I’m optimistic about the future of the iPad and the Mac.

“German Naming Convention”

“The Future of Interaction, Part II • furbo.org”

“The ADHD nervous system is interest-based, rather than importance- or priority-based.”

People’s ability to focus isn’t normally interest-based? They can choose to focus on whatever they need?

“‘I’ve paid a huge personal cost:’ Google walkout organizer resigns over alleged retaliation - Google - The Guardian”

This does not surprise me.

“Talent Is Abundant”

“Yes, it’s hard to write a 10,000 word magazine piece, but the talent to do it is not rare.”

“Indicating focus to improve accessibility”

“Vanilla JS is just a framework without docs - Go Make Things”

The opposite of what you’d expect based on the headline.

“The Whole System is Bankrupt — As in guillotine…”

“An oral history of the hamburger icon (from the people who were there) - Inside Design Blog”

“Amusing Ourselves to Death – James Book Blog”

As a few Googlers have already pointed out, Sign In with Apple doesn’t protect your log in data from your log in provider. It’s about protecting you from the countless scuzzy tech cos that are being enabled by log in providers

“The Canadian government has released the surprisingly sensible results of its extensive, year-long review of copyright law – Boing Boing”

Huh? Common sense. That’s unusual.

“Audits in Web Inspector - WebKit”

This sounds like an interesting idea.

“Safari Technology Preview 84, with Safari 13 Features, is Now Available - WebKit”

“Indicating focus to improve accessibility - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”

“Let’s Clarify some Misunderstandings around Sign In with Apple • Aaron Parecki”

It’s starting to look like iOS/iPadOS 13 addresses a lot of my concerns about iPads: text selection, copy-paste, file storage, better multi-tasking, mouse supporte and, seemingly, PWA improvements mobile.twitter.com/firt/stat…

“The Automation Charade ─ The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests does that serve?”

“Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers”

Best analysis I’ve seen so far on Google’s proposed changes that threaten ad-blocking in Chrome.