Dave Klein

Separate Writing and Formatting The solution to staying focused while writing sounds trivial: When you type, just type.

Apple unveils iPhone Duo Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone.

Testing tip: Enable the zoom peek gesture using ⌘⇧4 with the intention not to take a screenshot, but just to (roughly) measure a distance between two objects, and then pressing Esc to abort I'm glad to learn others use this trick to measure pixels between…

8 Transparent Tech Gadgets With Retro Appeal Aesthetically, the market is pushing back against the uniformity of modern smartphones that conceal everything behind sleek, opaque shells.

Yeongkyu Yoo cac collection began, as I mentioned earlier, from a desire to explore what a more fully resolved form of minimalism might look like.

I spent a day running this site through UI skills, a "collection of design-engineering skills to help humans and agents create better interfaces."

EP-2350 FX-MIC Re-introducing EP-2350 FX-MIC.

The Casio F-B100W-1A adds a step-tracker to its retro design This is the new F-B100W-1A, a watch that blends the style of the F-91W with the addition of Bluetooth and an accelerometer.

I have been quietly building a lightweight blogging system.

I recently opened the Google Home app to check a camera feed.

This started as a quick documentation chore.

My homepage has a new “Currently reading” widget including the cover of the book I’m reading, the title and author beside it, and a thin red progress bar hanging under the cover.

My favorite trick on this site is invisible.

Every framed iPhone capture on this site takes the same path: I drop a screenshot or a screen recording into a folder and it comes out baked into a device bezel.

Of everything I have built for this site, the photos page is the part I fussed over most.

I love testing products, tinkering with my home office setup, and, of course, making coffee.

This site is built on small decisions: how a heading breaks its lines, what red means, why exits never bounce, and more.

Get Ready for the Color E Ink Monitor That Finally Runs at 60fps - Yanko Design E Ink displays have earned a devoted following among people who spend long hours reading or writing.

On June 27, 2026 I was fortunate to attend Apple’s first friends and family day in years thanks to a good friend who works at the company.

Apple Creator Studio gets smarter, faster, and more connected - Apple Apple today introduced power-packed updates to Apple Creator Studio, a groundbreaking collection of creative apps that build on the essential role Mac, iPad, and iPhone play in the lives

Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna Marcin’s interactive essays are overwhelmingly impressive.

“Don’t entangle emulators in infringement events that are visible from space.” – Unsung The video paints Nintendo in the harsh light, highlighting their double standards and willingness to throw their corporate legal weight around just to squash the chall…

Introducing Lettera: A Native Markdown Editor for Mac, Now in Beta Lettera is a native, refined Markdown editor for macOS.

P3 — Won’t Fix is a public gallery of software bugs that I assume product managers closed as “won’t fix.”

While exchanging messages with a friend I wrote some thoughts on the experience of building QuickTake: The dev experience is wildly better than when I first started vibe coding in September 2024 with Cursor.

When I was 7 years old my parents purchased a Mac LC.

We’re in the duct-tape era of AI.

I began reading a design book written in 1995 (31 years ago!)

I read this paragraph last night and it made me think of Apple’s approach to refining the design of macOS over the past few years.

Last week I noticed the following text at the end of Joanna Stern’s Tech Things newsletter: Got an idea for a throwback?

For years I have dreamt of living in a home riddled with ethernet cables.

Lauren Laverne asks Jony Ive about some of his creative decisions when designing the original iMac on the Desert Island Discs podcast: The purpose, the goal of having a handle was you may understand nothing about the nature of this object.

As a collector of Apple products people often ask me, “Do they work?”

At work there was a discussion about making money from photography.

Craig Mod makes a twilight bike ride come to life in his Ridgeline newsletter.

Last year I acquired an Apple Adjustable Keyboard for my collection.

I’ve been following the team at CW&T since 2011 when they launched the Pen Type-A on Kickstarter.

I designed and produced a book of my street photography and added a Store page to this website.

Albert Shum writing about AI on LinkedIn: My hypothesis is that consumer AI experiences fall short because it’s lonely out there.

Elizabeth Laraki writing about designing Gmail in its earliest days: Kevin refined his explorations to prioritize the newest unread message while also providing context from the other messages in the conversation.

I recently visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to see the Art of Noise exhibit and was stunned.

One thing that I believe is missing from all of the AI discourse, product launches, and funding announcements is how AI can help augment the small, mundane tasks users perform many times per day on phones and computers.

In November of last year, a mysterious startup called new.computer (great name similar to another startup founded by Apple employees named Software Applications Incorporated) posted a video of an incredibly beautiful, fluid app that promised to be a perso…

By 2011 the design team at iControl Networks had already devised a way to visually summarize a house’s security system, cameras, thermostats, locks, and lights into a single, simple, and quite lovely representation: the orb.

In this assignment I’d like you to experiment with a variety of imagemaking techniques to create a range of images of a single household object.

Antonello Crimi, Jess Leitch, and Jason Severs write about natural language acting as the next generation of user experience: This transformation is exemplified by the Rabbit r1, an innovative personal AI assistant.

When Sheena Lee and I set out to redesign the Salesforce Mobile App in 2018, we aimed to design and build a consumer-grade enterprise app.

I first discovered Marcin Wichary from his Medium posts.

In 1982 when Apple was developing the original Macintosh, Steve Jobs had each team member’s signature engraved on the tool that molded the computer’s plastic case.1 This ensured that every Mac included the team’s signatures on the inside.

Arun Venkatesan, writing about camera gear on his blog, helps me reflect on my own camera journey: To the novice me, believing that gear mattered and accumulating it helped me come to my own conclusion.