Andrew Conn
@andrewconn.com
Physical button? Because in the Home app and Control Center, there are toggles for lights… but the UX is weirdly confusing. It’s a split button.
December 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Physical button? Because in the Home app and Control Center, there are toggles for lights… but the UX is weirdly confusing. It’s a split button.
The ‘distinctive font’ you mention is very likely a visual reference to Fraktur. It’s a visual dog whistle… “Fraktur typefaces were particularly heavily used during the early years of the Nazi era” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua...
Antiqua–Fraktur dispute - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua–Fraktur_dispute
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The ‘distinctive font’ you mention is very likely a visual reference to Fraktur. It’s a visual dog whistle… “Fraktur typefaces were particularly heavily used during the early years of the Nazi era” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua...
Not to mention it’s likely 80% bots… www.f5.com/company/blog...
I’m a former CIA cyber-operations officer who studies bot traffic. Here’s why it’s plausible that more than 80% of Twitter’s accounts are actually fake—and Twitter is not alone.
Dan Woods: When I consider the volume and velocity of automation we’re seeing today, the sophistication of bots that a given set of incentives is likely to attract, and the relative lack of countermea...
www.f5.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Not to mention it’s likely 80% bots… www.f5.com/company/blog...
FYI Startpage is owned by an AdTech co
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
FYI Startpage is owned by an AdTech co
Try using What The Font… www.myfonts.com/pages/whatth...
WhatTheFont Font Finder - Identify Fonts by Image
Identify fonts with our font finder tool using an image or photo. Upload an image, and we’ll search our collection of over 133,000 fonts for the best match.
www.myfonts.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Try using What The Font… www.myfonts.com/pages/whatth...
Beautiful. Colors are amazing!
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Beautiful. Colors are amazing!
Vice Press does really nice reprints… vice-press.com
Limited Edition Movie Posters, Art Prints & Collectibles | Vice Press
We create cool stuff for things we love. All of our limited edition posters, art prints & collectibles are officially licensed & made for fans like us to collect & display in their homes.
vice-press.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Vice Press does really nice reprints… vice-press.com
That maze of the mind drawing is awesome
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
That maze of the mind drawing is awesome
90s version of uranium glass
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
90s version of uranium glass
Awesome… Giving me Hyper Light Drifter vibes
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Awesome… Giving me Hyper Light Drifter vibes
Relevant article… www.nngroup.com/articles/liq...
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.
www.nngroup.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Relevant article… www.nngroup.com/articles/liq...
Saucer section looks pretty weak TBH
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Saucer section looks pretty weak TBH
I wonder if the folks over at @ghost.org could help somehow – migration help maybe – especially for such an amazing site like yours.
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I wonder if the folks over at @ghost.org could help somehow – migration help maybe – especially for such an amazing site like yours.
Appreciate your site! I’m not familiar with all the types of content you have on there, but you could likely & dramatically reduce costs by moving to something like Wordpress on shared hosting and sitting Cloudflare in front for CDN. Talking $5-10 a month.
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Appreciate your site! I’m not familiar with all the types of content you have on there, but you could likely & dramatically reduce costs by moving to something like Wordpress on shared hosting and sitting Cloudflare in front for CDN. Talking $5-10 a month.
Also… from a UX perspective, the pattern breaking use of check marks and X’s to close the keyboard or close a WebKit view in an app… crazy to me. Am I cancelling the thing I’m typing i to? Am I done? What happens?! They really made some bad platform UX decisions this update.
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Also… from a UX perspective, the pattern breaking use of check marks and X’s to close the keyboard or close a WebKit view in an app… crazy to me. Am I cancelling the thing I’m typing i to? Am I done? What happens?! They really made some bad platform UX decisions this update.
The gradient flash when sending messages in the Messages app incredibly annoying
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The gradient flash when sending messages in the Messages app incredibly annoying
The remote is particularly bad. If you’re looking for a replacement remote with an easier interaction this one is pretty good… function101.com/products/but...
Function101 Button Remote for Apple TV - IR Replacement Remote
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function101.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The remote is particularly bad. If you’re looking for a replacement remote with an easier interaction this one is pretty good… function101.com/products/but...
Put surprised Picachu meme here…
October 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Put surprised Picachu meme here…
This is a strong theme in tech lately, manifesting as the FDE… Forward Deployed Engineer. A lot of big co’s are adopting this operational model.
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is a strong theme in tech lately, manifesting as the FDE… Forward Deployed Engineer. A lot of big co’s are adopting this operational model.