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I like gadgets and izakayas

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When Liquid Glass came out, I thought it was mostly a shiny reskin sold as a big reimagining, although there were a few cool screens. Now with 27, they cleaned up a lot of the most offensive parts, but it’s still the same story. All these UI elements demand so much attention to themselves.

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After playing around with a lot of apps with all the Liquid Glass tab bars, etc, then briefly switching to YouTube Music to play a song. Immediately I was bizarrely overjoyed to see the YouTube Music UI. The tab bar + miniplayer being neatly tucked together was just clean.

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It was such a breath of fresh air after seeing all the floating blobs in the other apps. It’s great not to have shiny things blobbing around all the time. Why do they insist on such grabbing so much attention? We can appreciate peace and quiet and respectful software again.

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Rewatched Interstellar recently and you know how Nolan gets a criticized a lot for having emotionally stunted movies. Interstellar has enough emotion for 3 movies combined. I love it.

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There's skepticism that Odysseus, fresh from a 7yr vacation with Charlize Theron, can't fight 30 suitors by himself Once you factor in the fact that he was eating healthy lotuses and really fresh seafood, while the suitors were eating insane buffets and drinking every night, it totally makes sense

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I grew up waking up at 3am to watch Steve Jobs keynotes. I never thought I would become a tech curmudgeon. Most of all, I never thought it’d be Apple who turned me into one.

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The past decade was about embracing and inviting technology into our lives. The next years will be revisiting that and recalibrating the role of tech in our lives.

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As I was reading Tim Cook’s farewell letter, all I could think about was Microsoft’s mission statement. In his letter, Tim talks about how he starts every morning reading emails from real users whose lives have genuinely improved (and sometimes even saved) by Apple products.

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Microsoft’s mission is “to empower every person on the planet to achieve more”. The irony is the Apple emails tell stories of people achieving more. A mission, not in words, but grounded and demonstrated in everyday experiences.

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The Verge is currently trying to rank the top 50 Apple products from the past 50 years. I’d say these are objectively the top 3, I won’t agree to disagree: 1. iPhone (specific: iPhone 4) 2. Mac (specific: 2008 white MacBook) 3. Apple Silicon (specific: M1)

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The MacBook Neo, running an old iPhone chip, can run laps around an iPad running an actual computer chip when in comes to actually being productive Like this tablet Apple has been trying to position as a computer for a decade can't even play a podcast and music at the same time Just let me compute

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The problem with foldable phones isn’t the crease, and yet everyone is rushing to “solve” it. The problem is the screens are soft and delicate and even your fingernail will leave a permanent mark.

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If Apple releases a foldable, 10 full years after everyone else, and it’s literally the same thing we’ve seen in the decade, but just that there’s no crease, I think that’s a fail. It should address way more issues than just the crease.

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Jony Ive made a “not precious” $5000 sailing lamp I wanna read a real world review from someone who bought one and took it sailing

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I open Slack these days and all the new “features” are changes for the change’s sake. Compliance/maintenance aside, they could probably keep the current version of Slack forever, and it’d be fine.

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Instagram became briefly usable this year, when they “experimented” with a following only feed. I could actually keep up with the people I care about it. Then, they killed the experiment and it’s no longer usable.

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What’s your tech wishlist for next year? Mine are: - Customizable panels in Figma - Android-style silent notifications on iOS (an in-between setting between mute and regular notifications) - Apple Music (desktop) actually becomes usable - More indie and small tech in general

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The most astounding thing about the Alan Dye saga is that most people aren’t even saying “he’s bad“ or ”I dislike the work under his tenure” They’re saying “he’s a fraud”

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This is coming from people who are usually very careful and precise with their words, saying things like “he’s a fraud” or “he has no taste.” Of course Dye was ultimately responsible given his role, but putting all the blame on him and using very strong words is going way too far.

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Very cool that Cloudflare’s outage report had the CEO in the byline as the author. Sure, I doubt he actually wrote it, but putting his name as ultimately the one responsible is admirable. In similar incidents, it would just be some engineering lead. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

blog.cloudflare.comCloudflare outage on November 18, 2025Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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A while ago, I had a fun home network project where I would route all my internet traffic through Cloudflare Warp. The thinking was: I trust Cloudflare more than I trust my ISP and theoretically, web browsing should also be faster since it uses Cloudflare infrastructure instead of public ones.