Ben Brooks

I like opening an app and getting an advertisement trying to get me to use the app. And it’s like “yo, I’m using it right now could you fuck off with that” Anyways.

I’ve been a diehard Apple Maps user since the day it came out. You should know that two weeks ago I switched to Google Maps, and it’s vastly better. I may be the product with Google Maps, but Google Maps is also more focused on me having a good experience than Apple Maps is.

Fuckers

Discord is the worst iOS app I use daily. Won’t even open on my phone today. Point to this bullshit whenever someone says “no one needs native iOS development”

All current public evidence points to Tim Cook supporting ICE.

its so funny to me that serial plagiarist Benny Johnson just stole Tucker Carlson's whole schtick

iOS/iPadOS 26.1 allows you to disable swipe to open camera from the lock screen, I always hated that gesture, good riddance. (Settings > Camera)

iCloud sync used to be magic. Now I spend a lot of time staring at my iPhone’s Photos app waiting for it to sync 1 photo and then staring at my iPad waiting for it to pick up that one photo. Then I go use my open source, self-hosted, photo app and it’s synced everything before iCloud launched.

This version is now Remind Me Fasterer.

My member intel this week includes at what elevation it’s ok to wear certain outer layers, making it perhaps one of the most CO based style guides out there.

Claude v. GPT-5 - GPT-5: “wow that was fast, but not really what I asked but kind of, don’t be lazy” - Claude: “my dude, I just wanted a quick short answer, not a dissertation on it, could you chill a little”

I love this bag.

The profits are going to be on creating tools to connect your life to LLMs.

Will be telling about so much when the next board next hires Yaccarino.

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

Flooding in Central Texas has killed at least 24 people and at least 20 girls attending a summer camp are missing, officials said.

I am sorry to tell you folks…

I got angry enough to write about why you should never let the sales team run the app strategy.

I heard this went out of stock and I think the brand might be on a well deserved vacation. But, I stand by the fact that you can’t spend any amount of money to get something better than this for the office. And some would say I’ve *tested* way too many backpacks.

Chief executives are giving employees an AI fright — warning them the new technology could make many workers obsolete.

Apple Proved Nothing at WWDC, And That’s Interesting af Apple is looking like the Blackberry of AI.

Installed macOS 26 and iOS 26. Current rating is YIKES out of five stars for the design. Hoping this changes quite a bit before September, because otherwise this is not going to be fun times. And, yes, I know. Feedback. Beta. Etc. But I fear at this stage, it’ll be tweaks, not an overhaul.

I too am running the new shiny on my iPad, and I feel like I am losing my damned mind each time I read that there’s someone who thinks this looks good. This looks terrible. iPad multi-tasking upgrades are nice though.

UPDATE: Police arrested Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, at the scene. He shouted “free Palestine!” as he used a “makeshift flamethrower” and hurled an incendiary device at the demonstrators, said Mark D. Michalek, special agent in charge of the FBI in Denver. bsky.app/profile/colo...

There was a point in time when it would be silly not to have the Shop mobile app. Grey little utility and all that. Fast forward to today and you can’t even check on orders without a splash screen taking over to tell you about shop week. App deleted.

I hate LinkedIn and its ugly design and its endless privacy violations and its grifter energy so much.

I love this jacket, and it happens to be on sale today.

Morning web designers and developers. Reminder that date pickers are terrible choices when asking for a birthdate. That’s all.

Gear Report — 5/14/25 Sometime’s it’s better to trust others on what to buy.

The $400 million jet from Qatar would be worth 100 times more than every other presidential gift from a foreign nation combined since 2001

tl:dr: Cook should resign.

MacDailyNews’ Sexist Response to Yesterday’s Epic Games Ruling https://pxlnv.com/blog/macdailynews-sexist-gonzalez-rogers/

tl;dr: fantastically nice and unmatched, stupidly overpriced. Probably buy a MacBook Air instead.

I know the Android app ecosystem is a mess but there are very talented iOS developers out there who should be thinking really hard about what this says about what Apple thinks of them

Kid: Can you ask Siri what $20 in Robux is? Siri: Would you like me to ask ChatGPT? Me: Ok. Kid: Nevermind, new Siri knows nothing. The old Siri on my iPhone can answer that, but the new Siri on my iPad just always wants to ask ChatGPT and it never works. Apple’s in a bad spot. Kid is 11.

Gear Report — 4/30/25 We were in an awesome spot with gear, and tariffs are likely to mess it all up.

Huge fan of this, and Project Bluefin is also an excellent OS.

Things which are easier then moving from old iPhone to new iPhone: 1. Old Mac to new Mac 2. Writing a full functioning web app with Claude 3. Troubleshooting DNS entries 4. Buying a new car 5. Tanking the economy with Tariffs.

Seems bold to still be blogging about what/how a new iPhone model will be in September. Makes a lot of assumptions about, well, everything.

Looks like a bad day to buy a new cyber truck... #teslatakedown

In this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents. He is a traitor who needs to resign.

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

Tiktok is going all in on MAGA, there’s no doubt about it

It’s so funny, there’s a long social media tradition going back 25 years of making a big deal about how you were going to quit, and then only being gone for like half a day.