Asa Dotzler's Blog

I want the Windows 11 Start menu to do exactly three things, and nothing else: 1.

I often see comments from (mostly amateur) programmers claiming AI gives them programming superpowers.

The man responsible for iOS 26, the worst usability regression in Apple history, has jumped ship for Meta, and presumably taken top minions with him.

Apple’s new design language for iOS, called Liquid Glass, makes controls and other surfaces translucent.

After more consideration than I’d planned, I think this new anti-steering judgement against Apple, if it stands, will have considerable impact on Apple and the web.

In an earlier post I wrote Both [Apple and Meta] are pursuing AR (augmented reality) spectacles and also pushing the false narrative that spectacles are the natural evolution of goggles, that goggles weren’t an outrageously expensive mistake and would evo…

I started using Facebook before “open registration” when it was still mostly exclusive to colleges and universities, people with .edu email addresses.

Around 1726, Montesquieu wrote, “Le mieux est le mortel ennemi du bien.”

In early 2014, Meta (then Facebook) acquired Oculus, a head-mounted display company that was generating buzz with a successful crowdfunding effort.

Thomas Hawk’s portrait of Robert Scoble wearing Apple’s Vision Pro These are my quick and dirty, somewhat off the cuff thoughts on the state of Apple in 2025 and how it got to here.