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Code is a liquid now.

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Jeff Johnson writes, in If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate?:

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The iPhone seems to have engendered a culture of anti-intellectualism and learned helplessness so pervasive that users have become evangelists for their own disempowerment.

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The line “evangelists for their own disempowerment” struck me because it’s a thing I’ve seen (I think we’ve all seen) over and over, and certainly not just in tech.

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What is the bug in human nature that makes some people, at least some of the time, argue so strenuously in favor of less autonomy and freedom — even...

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From open web champion Manton Reece comes a new RSS reader Inkwell:

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Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for the latest blog posts. Recent is for posts yesterday or the day before. And Fading is for posts up to a week old. After a week, posts fade out of Inkwell, so you’ll never be overwhelmed with unread posts. If you missed them, it’s okay.

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It already syncs with Unread and we’d like to add Inkwell syncing for NetNewsWire too.

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Congratulations, Manton! 🎉🎩

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Wordlebot got what was coming to it today. Such a jerk.

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Reminder! The Seattle Xcoders presentation meeting tonight is one you really, really want to be there for!

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Jeff Johnson notes that different types of windows on macOS Tahoe have different corner radiuses.

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If this isn’t the stupidest user interface “feature” ever invented, I don’t know what is. The Mac used to be famous for consistency; now it’s becoming infamous for inconsistency.

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I Tried to Explain What I Do: inessential.com

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Gazette: newsletter to RSS: ranchero.com

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Seattle Xcoders Talks This Week Considered Unmissable: inessential.com

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Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.

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Jesper writes, in Welcome (back) to Macintosh, of his hope that Apple can “refocus its software and its humility too.” I don’t want to quote the best parts — just go read it if you haven’t yet.

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Why Objective-C: inessential.com

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Beagle Bros love: ranchero.com

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Unread remains cool: ranchero.com

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Stress-free RSS reader FeedCity debuted last year: ranchero.com

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Spotlight has recently become terrible for launching apps after being so good for years. Now when I type something like Cal or Calendar or even Calendar.app I have to manually select the actual app in the list, if it even appears. Should be first thing.

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Just me? Is my Mac haunted? Probably haunted.

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New RSS reader Today: ranchero.com

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New RSS reader Current: ranchero.com

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Why Not Objective-C: inessential.com

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Maurice on Zavala 4: ranchero.com

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Joe Heck on agentic coding: ranchero.com

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ranchero.com no longer on hiatus: ranchero.com

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Blog Fuckup: inessential.com

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Email from Family in Minnesota: inessential.com

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Karbon Based, And Stay Out:

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I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released… Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation.
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@inessential.com I haven’t written one, and I don’t remember if anyone else has. I would like to read that post!

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@inessential.com Yes, exactly — those items should be above my current place. Chronological timeline, yes, absolutely.

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But my current place should still be what I’m looking at! And then I could scroll up to read newer things until I reach the top.

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@inessential.com Got it! Is there a way to get new items without losing my place?

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@inessential.com I only see new stuff if I pull to refresh or tap that button in the bottom left, which then triggers the scroll.

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Is that not true for you?

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@macrael.com I don’t do anything special, though it’s likely I don’t subscribe to any feeds that are more high volume than Kottke.

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@randy Hi Randy — I’m using a thing I wrote: github.com/brentsimm…

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@davereed Because I’m an app writer in the open web space, I figured I should have a regular Mastodon account so I could have that experience. If I weren’t, I’d probably just use my Micro.blog account, since it works with Mastodon.

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(To be clear — I’m keeping my Micro.blog account! It’s just that I’ve added a regular Mastodon account.)

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I think that each case is unique — some Micro.blog folks will have reasons to create a regular Mastodon account, and some will be quite happy using just their Micro.blog account, since it works with Mastodon.

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@dsh1705 The where is almost certainly the very small town in South Jersey where that side of my family is from. Not sure of the when — maybe the ’20s? Somewhere around there.

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@danieltiger Crude language, sexual content, smoking, violence. (There was a dance and two adults kissed briefly. Pa smokes a pipe. Etc.)

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@SimonWoods RSS readers use the Twitter API, just like the client apps, since Twitter dropped its RSS feeds something like 10 years ago.

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@pimoore Yes — same API.

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@robinwit They removed RSS like 10 years ago. Or more. NetNewsWire is using the Twitter API, just like the apps that have been shut down. (But I’d bet that NetNewsWire is not on their radar at all.)

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@wigging NetNewsWire is using the Twitter API, and it could get shut down, yes. But NetNewsWire is probably not on Twitter’s radar the way apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific are.

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@ehler “49ers fans should be nervous” is a thing a Seahawks fan says to have a little fun before a big game where the Seahawks are expected to lose by 10 points. 🐣🐥🏈

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@magnus919 They turned off RSS like 10 years ago. RSS readers with Twitter integration are using the Twitter API — but of course your point stands in that we could have our access removed at any moment with no warning.

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@skoobz Beating Denver in game one was all I needed — the rest of the season has been all gravy. Sure would be fun to beat the 49ers, though.

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@th3storysofar Yes. It works on iOS and with iCloud sync. You do need to set up your Twitter account in the app in both places, so you can log in with Twitter.

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@mjgardner Or Xcode!

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@Medievalist You’d think, but it’s an issue on every single device, clean or not, new or not. I think it’s more just a thing about aging.

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@leebennett Good tip — I’ll try that. I don’t have much optimism, because I think the wearing-down is a problem for all my fingers, but maybe it will work.

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@collin Yes. To the maximum amount every year. Future you will be very grateful to today you.

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@jeffmerola I think that I’m just used to NSCoding because it’s been around so long. But, to answer your question, ing suffixes bother me in Objective-C too. (I just didn’t mention it because people don’t write much ObjC any more.)

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@collin My advice: think way less about what other people might think about you. Follow your own lead.

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@danielpunkass I am competitive! I’m sure way more than it looks.

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However, I write NetNewsWire because I’m on two teams that matter a lot to me — team protocols-over-platforms (RSS etc.) and team Mac-assed-Mac-apps.

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NetNewsWire is meant to be a great app that people love, first and foremost — but it’s also for the promotion of both those teams’ goals. When there’s an Unread for Mac, for instance, I still win. :)

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@johnbrayton Super-psyched for the Mac version! If you run into any Mac issues or questions, please don’t hesitate to ask me or the NNW team for help. Unread for Mac so needs to happen. 🍻

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