The Shape of Everything

Happy MacOS Release day for those who celebrate.

Christine Lemmer-Webber: But where does taste come from?.

Years ago, I wrote a little bit about an artist named Jeremy Mann and how inspiring I found him and his work (visit the post to read my gushing).

Nate (no last name that I can find) - Don't use your phone while you poop: When we stop feeding our brains constant input, they can finally attend to the housekeeping of the mind.

Acorn 8.6 is out!

Paul Kafasis on the Rogue Amoeba Blog: Free The Icons: With last year’s release of MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple made a mess of app icons.

Artem Loenko: Native all the way, until you need text: I did everything people say you should do.

I was asked today how to make square crops in Acorn while keeping the aspect ratio when you resize the square.

To create a fundamentally better editor, we had to invent a new approach to building desktop software.

Joshua Heath Scott on successful bands: When you’re furious that another entity is successful, when you’re convinced they cheated, when you can’t stop picking apart how they did it , that fury is almost never about them.

Craig Mod, MacBook Neo and How the iPad Could Be: The MacBook Neo is about six years late.

Tolaria is a “A second brain for the AI era”.

I‘ve just release Acorn 8.5, which has some new features, nice SVG improvements, and some good bug fixes.

512 Pixels: Mac OS X Shipped 25 Years Ago.

There’s been a lot of talk recently about Liquid Glass on MacOS, and it being an abomination (epic rant from Nilay Patel there).

CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions.

In episode 680 of ATP, at about 6:12 in, Marco Arment goes off on watchOS 26’s fitness app and trashes all the changes.

Greg Knauss ▸ Lose Myself: I got into computers because solving puzzles was fun, and building worlds was fun, and making things — the process of making things — was fun, down at the granular level.

Matthew Butterick ▸ Does software piracy exist?

Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally.

Josh Scott: John Mayer And The Coming Simulacra: There’s a video making the rounds right now.