More Evidence Olivia Rodrigo Is A Scientifically Designed Psy-op To Appeal To Gen-X Dads:

Wife comes down stairs, "Who is this? They sound like Taylor switft but they're singing to music from the Sundays," later, "Wait, is this a Cure song?"

Five-year-old daughter exclaims breathlessly, "It's Olivia!"

"Um, yeah," I mumble, shamefully, "she's also done stuff with David Byrne."

Adobe is just fucking trolling at this point.

Listen to my PDF as a podcast? What the fuck are you even talking about.

This is a “no bad ideas” whiteboard session about “creative uses for AI” come to life, and it sucks.

I just referred to the turn signal on a car as “a directional” and my wife is shaking her head that “no one calls it that.”

Is this just some Bostonian thing? Is it not even that and just some Castaldo thing?

I love Kate.

She has an art practice that is practice first—a deliberate and intentional act of making, putting in the work day after day.

She drew the mundane for 20 years, her purchases documenting a complete life: ups, downs, everything.

Diet cokes, advil, haircuts, toys for her son, kickstarters, inflatable pretzels, glasses of wine, fries and plane tickets.

Honored and lucky to have her as a friend. Proud to see her purchase 16 yrs ago today was from me.

https://katebingamanburt.substack.com/p/20-years-ago-i-bought-a-tank-of-gas

I kinda miss CD long boxes.

I've never downgraded a Mac OS in my life — I've stuck with every beta, kept moving everything "forward" — Tahoe is the biggest step back in usability I've ever experienced.

I just tried using it without Reduced Transparency enabled and I literally got queasy.

My M1 MacBook Air now feels slow as shit. At Beta 7, there's no excuses left.

I will get use to it, but man, this Liquid Glass sucks. It's hard to read, my eyes keep looking at the toolbars for no reason and it's slow as hell. Icons in front of every menu bar is distracting and I can't find what I'm looking for.

It's not fancy, it's not the future, it just fucking sucks.

This is what I hate about Liquid Glass — the web is now gonna be littered with attempts at copying what is a horribly unusable design to begin with. Chris is great and I love this site, but it just shows how influential Apple design is. Which was great when their design set a high bar, but now… not so much.

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/liquid-glass-on-the-web/

Maybe it’s growing up catholic, but being keto right now and making quesadillas with these low-carb tortillas has some very strong body of christ vibes.

Design is how it works, not how it looks?

I’m honestly more mad at Apple Music moving the “now playing” bar to the bottom on the Mac than I am about making it illegible.

I have not heard a valid reason besides “that’s where Spotify has theirs.” And fuck those guys.

If you’re gonna do it, make it an option for those of us having used the interface for almost TWENTY YEARS.

Phones, sure, you use it bottom up because of where your hand is. Computers? Your head is still in the same place and most folks STILL read from top to bottom.