Refer This
https://daringfireball.net/2020/07/new_york_times_refer_this_dickbar [daringfireball.net]
2020-07-19 09:23
tags:
business
media
ux
web
In short, I enjoy and appreciate The Times. And after paying over $300 a year for nearly a decade, and having read the Times on a near-daily basis for my entire adult life, I feel I qualify as a good customer. And they repay me by deliberately annoying me several times a day, every day, when I attempt to read the product I’m paying them for. How could one not find this outrageously annoying?
source: DF
Bad UI: MacOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes
https://daringfireball.net/2019/04/bad_ui_mojave_release_notes [daringfireball.net]
2019-04-04 02:41
tags:
mac
ux
The release notes for the 10.14.4 update are quite long, as you can see from the relative size of the scroll. That’s good — there’s a lot new in this update and the release notes should mention everything new or different. But the sheet containing the release notes can’t be resized. You see about 9 lines of text at a time, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Worse, the text can’t be selected, so you can’t even copy and paste it into TextEdit or some other app to read it comfortably. They even have URLs at the bottom of the note, pointing to support pages on apple.com which contain even more details about the update — but the URLs aren’t clickable. Can’t copy them, can’t click them — the only way to actually open these URLs is to retype them manually.
source: DF
Why Is the Split Keyboard Not Available on iPad Pros?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/12/18/ipad-pros-split-keyboard [daringfireball.net]
2018-12-19 22:05
tags:
iphone
ux
The bottom line is that because I want to thumb-type, I type better on-screen with my iPhone than I do my iPad, and I can type better on an old iPad than my new one that cost $1,000. This is just baffling to me — so much so that until I found Apple’s support document confirming that the split keyboard is not available on 11-inch or bigger iPad Pros that I thought maybe the problem was me not knowing how to turn it on.
Conservation of entropy requires that new products not be strictly better than old ones.
source: DF
Latest Revision to ARM Instruction Set Includes Optimizations Just for JavaScript
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/11/arm-v83-javascript [daringfireball.net]
2018-10-18 02:37
tags:
cpu
javascript
perf
ARMv8.3 adds a new float-to-int instruction with errors and out-of-range values handled the way that JavaScript wants.
The end is nigh.
source: DF
Peter Valdes-Dapena Reviews the Tesla Model 3
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/01/12/valdes-dapena-tesla-model-3 [daringfireball.net]
2018-01-13 08:36
tags:
cars
tech
ux
I’ve long been frustrated by the fact that car reviews seldom devote attention or expertise to the design of the controls of the car. They matter a lot to me (shocker, I know), but I think they matter a lot to everyone, whether they think about control design consciously or not. The Model 3’s touchscreen centric design is so radical, it deserves a thorough review of its own.
source: DF
The iPhone X
https://daringfireball.net/2017/12/the_iphone_x [daringfireball.net]
2017-12-27 21:11
tags:
hardware
iphone
tech
ux
The more popular a computer platform becomes, the more of a bind in which it inevitably finds itself. A platform is only “finished” when it is abandoned. It needs to evolve to remain relevant, but it’s difficult to change in unfamiliar ways without angering the base of active users. Adding new features on top of the familiar foundation only gets you so far — eventually things grow too complex, especially when what’s needed now is in conflict with a design decision that made sense a decade (or more) prior.
source: DF
Wading Through AccuWeather’s Bullshit Response
https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/wading_through_accuweathers_bullshit_response [daringfireball.net]
2017-08-24 02:45
tags:
factcheck
iphone
networking
wifi
AccuWeather issued a statement regarding the controversy over their app sending location-identifying information to a monetization firm. It’s a veritable mountain of horseshit:
source: DF
Inductive Charging Is Not ‘Wireless’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/06/15/inductive-is-not-wireless [daringfireball.net]
2017-06-16 19:18
tags:
energy
tech
Not especially remarkable observation, but true.
source: DF
The World’s Worst Cocktail: The Alexa Martini
http://daringfireball.net/2017/02/alexa_martini [daringfireball.net]
2017-02-22 16:15
tags:
ai
food
ioshit
“The martini is a cocktail made with 1 part gin and 6 parts vermouth.”
source: DF
Craig Hockenberry’s ‘Making Sense of Color Management’
http://daringfireball.net/2017/01/making_sense_of_color_management [daringfireball.net]
2017-01-03 05:43
tags:
book
development
graphics
release
ux
Here’s an example. You specify a certain exact RGB color in your CSS for a web page. Then you make a graphic for that web page, with the exact same RGB value for the background color. But when you put the graphic on the web page, the background colors don’t match up. But only in some browsers, on some platforms. What the hell is going on?