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DUSTIN CURTIS
We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world defined by inequality. But the most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination.THE BEST - DCURT
Yanagi designed his flatware to stand the test of time. He died in 2011, but his design lives on. “The best” isn’t necessarily a product or thing. It’s the reward for winning the battle fought between patience, obsession, and desire. It takes an unreasonably THE THREE QUESTIONS RULE The three questions rule. In a great article called “Give it five minutes” on Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried talks about gut opinions: A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I had to be first with an APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ November 1, 2019 Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way totell which ones).
THE WAITING PLACE
November 5, 2012 The Waiting Place. Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodore Geisel. He used the pseudonym “Seuss” – his middle name – because he was waiting until he possessed the talent and experience necessary to write, as he put it, the next great American novel.That novel never materialized, and instead Geisel spent his life writing some of the most popular and significant childrenPIXEL-FITTING
Let’s get a closer look so you can see exactly how the problem is presented in pixels on the screen. The top image in the figure below, which was fitted by a human, shows the correct border size of 3 pixels, while the computer-resized image shows 3.3 pixels. Zoomed out, the 30% half-pixel makes the edge look blurry (this is the 66x40version
APPLE CARD DISABLED MY ICLOUD, APP STORE, AND APPLE ID As a result, we will block the device on the order from further access to the Apple iTunes and Mac App stores, and disable all accounts associated with the device purchased on the order. To resolve this issue, please call 1-877-255-5923 to speak with an Apple Card Specialist at Goldman Sachs. ELON MUSK’S DETERMINATION Elon Musk’s determination. By 2008, SpaceX had launched three rockets. They all failed to make it into orbit. Shortly after the third failure, Elon Musk was interviewed by Wired Magazine’s Carl Hoffman: Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a ONE OF THE DUMBEST THINGS I’VE EVER PUBLISHED Now read this Andrew Johnson’s Obituary. The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published on August 1, 1875: The history this man leaves is a rare one. HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 June 3, 2019 How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront. Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites.DUSTIN CURTIS
We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world defined by inequality. But the most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination.THE BEST - DCURT
Yanagi designed his flatware to stand the test of time. He died in 2011, but his design lives on. “The best” isn’t necessarily a product or thing. It’s the reward for winning the battle fought between patience, obsession, and desire. It takes an unreasonably THE THREE QUESTIONS RULE The three questions rule. In a great article called “Give it five minutes” on Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried talks about gut opinions: A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I had to be first with an APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ November 1, 2019 Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way totell which ones).
THE WAITING PLACE
November 5, 2012 The Waiting Place. Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodore Geisel. He used the pseudonym “Seuss” – his middle name – because he was waiting until he possessed the talent and experience necessary to write, as he put it, the next great American novel.That novel never materialized, and instead Geisel spent his life writing some of the most popular and significant childrenPIXEL-FITTING
Let’s get a closer look so you can see exactly how the problem is presented in pixels on the screen. The top image in the figure below, which was fitted by a human, shows the correct border size of 3 pixels, while the computer-resized image shows 3.3 pixels. Zoomed out, the 30% half-pixel makes the edge look blurry (this is the 66x40version
APPLE CARD DISABLED MY ICLOUD, APP STORE, AND APPLE ID As a result, we will block the device on the order from further access to the Apple iTunes and Mac App stores, and disable all accounts associated with the device purchased on the order. To resolve this issue, please call 1-877-255-5923 to speak with an Apple Card Specialist at Goldman Sachs. ELON MUSK’S DETERMINATION Elon Musk’s determination. By 2008, SpaceX had launched three rockets. They all failed to make it into orbit. Shortly after the third failure, Elon Musk was interviewed by Wired Magazine’s Carl Hoffman: Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a ONE OF THE DUMBEST THINGS I’VE EVER PUBLISHED Now read this Andrew Johnson’s Obituary. The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published on August 1, 1875: The history this man leaves is a rare one. HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 June 3, 2019 How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront. Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS • DUSTIN CURTIS While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuated equilibrium 1 . The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in stasis –that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change. THE THREE QUESTIONS RULE The three questions rule. In a great article called “Give it five minutes” on Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried talks about gut opinions: A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I had to be first with anVOICE INTERFACES
The reason current voice interfaces suck is because they force the speaker to consciously enter a “voice” mode and then create context around the action they want the computer to perform. This makes no sense; the computer should just always be listening for potential commands within the context of whatever the user is doing.RISK - DCURT
A friend recently sent me this quote from Dan Fredinburg, a Google executive who was killed during the 2015 Nepal earthquake. For some reason, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it: While climbing Carstenz Pyramid, the tallest mountain in | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ November 1, 2019 Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way totell which ones).
REPLACING THE PC
Replacing the PC. When I first saw the iPad, I knew it was going to replace the personal computer for the vast majority of people. I was wrong. Yes, the iPad is easier, faster, and cheaper at doing pretty much everything a normal person wants to do on a computer. Yes, PCs are definitely going to die. And yes, by looking at most sales numbers4 INCHES - DCURT.IS
October 3, 2012 4 Inches. A few months ago, in an article called 3.5 Inches, I wrote that the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen was the perfect size for human thumb reach.Now that the iPhone 5 has been released with its larger 4-inch screen, I think it’s time to re-evaluate theissue.
HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 June 3, 2019 How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront. Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. WHATEVER GOES UP, THAT’S WHAT WE DO March 27, 2014 Whatever goes up, that’s what we do. A year ago, Facebook announced a new News Feed that was completely redesigned to focus on content–it had large photos, big user icons, better integration with Facebook messenger, and it brought Facebook’s website into closer alignment with its mobile apps. ANDREW JOHNSON'S OBITUARY Andrew Johnson’s Obituary. The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published on August 1, 1875: The history this man leaves is a rare one. His career was remarkable, even in this country; it would have been quite impossible in any other. It presents the spectacle of a man who never went to school a day in his life risingDUSTIN CURTIS
We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world defined by inequality. But the most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination. HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS • DUSTIN CURTIS While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuated equilibrium 1 . The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in stasis –that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change. APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ November 1, 2019 Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way totell which ones).
THE WAITING PLACE
November 5, 2012 The Waiting Place. Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodore Geisel. He used the pseudonym “Seuss” – his middle name – because he was waiting until he possessed the talent and experience necessary to write, as he put it, the next great American novel.That novel never materialized, and instead Geisel spent his life writing some of the most popular and significant children APPLE CARD DISABLED MY ICLOUD, APP STORE, AND APPLE ID As a result, we will block the device on the order from further access to the Apple iTunes and Mac App stores, and disable all accounts associated with the device purchased on the order. To resolve this issue, please call 1-877-255-5923 to speak with an Apple Card Specialist at Goldman Sachs. CONTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE The two things are contribution and abundance. Contribution is basically exactly as it sounds. If you can align your life with where you have the talent to make a large, meaningful, and real contribution to the world, your circle, or your family, then you can be very happy. As an aside, doing so often leads to making money because when you ELON MUSK’S DETERMINATION Elon Musk’s determination. By 2008, SpaceX had launched three rockets. They all failed to make it into orbit. Shortly after the third failure, Elon Musk was interviewed by Wired Magazine’s Carl Hoffman: Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a ONE OF THE DUMBEST THINGS I’VE EVER PUBLISHED Now read this Andrew Johnson’s Obituary. The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published on August 1, 1875: The history this man leaves is a rare one. HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 June 3, 2019 How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront. Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites.TIDE’S BRAND
January 14, 2013 Tide’s Brand . For a demonstration of the important relationship between brand and product quality, look no further than Tide detergent, as profiled in this New York Magazine piece by Ben Paynter:. Shoppers have surprisingly strong feelings about laundrydetergent.
DUSTIN CURTIS
We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world defined by inequality. But the most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination. HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS • DUSTIN CURTIS While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuated equilibrium 1 . The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in stasis –that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change. APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ November 1, 2019 Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way totell which ones).
THE WAITING PLACE
November 5, 2012 The Waiting Place. Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodore Geisel. He used the pseudonym “Seuss” – his middle name – because he was waiting until he possessed the talent and experience necessary to write, as he put it, the next great American novel.That novel never materialized, and instead Geisel spent his life writing some of the most popular and significant children APPLE CARD DISABLED MY ICLOUD, APP STORE, AND APPLE ID As a result, we will block the device on the order from further access to the Apple iTunes and Mac App stores, and disable all accounts associated with the device purchased on the order. To resolve this issue, please call 1-877-255-5923 to speak with an Apple Card Specialist at Goldman Sachs. CONTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE The two things are contribution and abundance. Contribution is basically exactly as it sounds. If you can align your life with where you have the talent to make a large, meaningful, and real contribution to the world, your circle, or your family, then you can be very happy. As an aside, doing so often leads to making money because when you ELON MUSK’S DETERMINATION Elon Musk’s determination. By 2008, SpaceX had launched three rockets. They all failed to make it into orbit. Shortly after the third failure, Elon Musk was interviewed by Wired Magazine’s Carl Hoffman: Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a ONE OF THE DUMBEST THINGS I’VE EVER PUBLISHED Now read this Andrew Johnson’s Obituary. The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published on August 1, 1875: The history this man leaves is a rare one. HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 June 3, 2019 How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront. Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites.TIDE’S BRAND
January 14, 2013 Tide’s Brand . For a demonstration of the important relationship between brand and product quality, look no further than Tide detergent, as profiled in this New York Magazine piece by Ben Paynter:. Shoppers have surprisingly strong feelings about laundrydetergent.
IPAD IN 2020
iPad Pro running iOS 13 can technically do almost everything a MacBook Pro can, but it is incredibly frustrating to use. Accomplishing anything other than trivial tasks takes 2-5x longer with 10x more cognitive overhead than on a Mac. iPadOS is simply an annoying operating system to use. The iPad is amazing for content consumptionand certain
HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS • DUSTIN CURTIS While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuated equilibrium 1 . The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in stasis –that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change.VOICE INTERFACES
The reason current voice interfaces suck is because they force the speaker to consciously enter a “voice” mode and then create context around the action they want the computer to perform. This makes no sense; the computer should just always be listening for potential commands within the context of whatever the user is doing. VINTAGE - DUSTIN CURTIS The minute you believe that the past was better, your present becomes second-hand, and you yourself become vintage. – Karl Lagerfeld | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. WHAT HAPPENED TO APPLE’S INDUSTRIAL DESIGN TEAM? What happened to Apple’s industrial design team? It seems as though every major division at Apple has been running at full-power for the past couple of years–the raw technology coming out of the company has been truly remarkable: its A-series chips are the fastest and most secure smartphone SOC s in the world, the iPhone has the bestPIXEL-FITTING
May 9, 2012 Pixel-fitting. Note: This article contains non-retina images, which are not pixel-fitted. The irony is not lost on me. In the Markdown Mark repository on Github, I had initially included only 12 static PNG images of the mark at different specific sizes.Several people asked me why I had done this instead of including a vector graphic, and the reason is actually quite important.REPLACING THE PC
Replacing the PC. When I first saw the iPad, I knew it was going to replace the personal computer for the vast majority of people. I was wrong. Yes, the iPad is easier, faster, and cheaper at doing pretty much everything a normal person wants to do on a computer. Yes, PCs are definitely going to die. And yes, by looking at most sales numbers ANDREW JOHNSON'S OBITUARY Andrew Johnson’s Obituary. The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published on August 1, 1875: The history this man leaves is a rare one. His career was remarkable, even in this country; it would have been quite impossible in any other. It presents the spectacle of a man who never went to school a day in his life rising THE PULL-TO-REFRESH PATENT The pull-to-refresh patent. I’ve been wondering why Apple hasn’t implemented pull-to-refresh in any of its apps. It is a fundamentally better user experience for refreshing time-based list items. As it turns out, patents may be the issue. In a patent titled “User Interface Mechanics,” owned by Twitter and listing Loren Brichter,the
BING KNOWS WHO YOU ARE I just went to Bing for the first time in a very, very long time, and saw something that I am not sure how to interpret. It knew who I was. It knew who my friends were. It knew my name, and it had my profile photo. I’m not sure how much | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker,investor, nomad.
DUSTIN CURTIS
We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world defined by inequality. But the most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination. HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuated equilibrium 1 . The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in stasis –that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change.VOICE INTERFACES
The reason current voice interfaces suck is because they force the speaker to consciously enter a “voice” mode and then create context around the action they want the computer to perform. This makes no sense; the computer should just always be listening for potential commands within the context of whatever the user is doing. VINTAGE - DUSTIN CURTIS The minute you believe that the past was better, your present becomes second-hand, and you yourself become vintage. – Karl Lagerfeld | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ November 1, 2019 Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way totell which ones).
ELON MUSK’S DETERMINATION Elon Musk’s determination. By 2008, SpaceX had launched three rockets. They all failed to make it into orbit. Shortly after the third failure, Elon Musk was interviewed by Wired Magazine’s Carl Hoffman: Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put aTHE MARKDOWN MARK
The Markdown Mark. I’m making something that uses Markdown, and there’s currently no great universal symbol for identifying Markdown support. So I created one. You should use this mark to identify user input areas which support Markdown-compiled HTML output or to identify general Markdown support. See the “Usage” section in the Markdown APPLE CARD DISABLED MY ICLOUD, APP STORE, AND APPLE ID As a result, we will block the device on the order from further access to the Apple iTunes and Mac App stores, and disable all accounts associated with the device purchased on the order. To resolve this issue, please call 1-877-255-5923 to speak with an Apple Card Specialist at Goldman Sachs.THE WAITING PLACE
The Waiting Place. Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodore Geisel. He used the pseudonym “Seuss” – his middle name – because he was waiting until he possessed the talent and experience necessary to write, as he put it, the next great American novel. That novel never materialized, and instead Geisel spent his life writing some of themost
HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 June 3, 2019 How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront. Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites.DUSTIN CURTIS
We inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world defined by inequality. But the most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination. HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuated equilibrium 1 . The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in stasis –that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change.VOICE INTERFACES
The reason current voice interfaces suck is because they force the speaker to consciously enter a “voice” mode and then create context around the action they want the computer to perform. This makes no sense; the computer should just always be listening for potential commands within the context of whatever the user is doing. VINTAGE - DUSTIN CURTIS The minute you believe that the past was better, your present becomes second-hand, and you yourself become vintage. – Karl Lagerfeld | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ November 1, 2019 Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way totell which ones).
ELON MUSK’S DETERMINATION Elon Musk’s determination. By 2008, SpaceX had launched three rockets. They all failed to make it into orbit. Shortly after the third failure, Elon Musk was interviewed by Wired Magazine’s Carl Hoffman: Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put aTHE MARKDOWN MARK
The Markdown Mark. I’m making something that uses Markdown, and there’s currently no great universal symbol for identifying Markdown support. So I created one. You should use this mark to identify user input areas which support Markdown-compiled HTML output or to identify general Markdown support. See the “Usage” section in the Markdown APPLE CARD DISABLED MY ICLOUD, APP STORE, AND APPLE ID As a result, we will block the device on the order from further access to the Apple iTunes and Mac App stores, and disable all accounts associated with the device purchased on the order. To resolve this issue, please call 1-877-255-5923 to speak with an Apple Card Specialist at Goldman Sachs.THE WAITING PLACE
The Waiting Place. Dr. Seuss’s real name was Theodore Geisel. He used the pseudonym “Seuss” – his middle name – because he was waiting until he possessed the talent and experience necessary to write, as he put it, the next great American novel. That novel never materialized, and instead Geisel spent his life writing some of themost
HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 June 3, 2019 How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront. Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuated equilibrium 1 . The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in stasis –that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change.VOICE INTERFACES
The reason current voice interfaces suck is because they force the speaker to consciously enter a “voice” mode and then create context around the action they want the computer to perform. This makes no sense; the computer should just always be listening for potential commands within the context of whatever the user is doing.BILL GATES IS ANGRY
August 8, 2020 Bill Gates is Angry . Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation.In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science.PIXEL-FITTING
May 9, 2012 Pixel-fitting. Note: This article contains non-retina images, which are not pixel-fitted. The irony is not lost on me. In the Markdown Mark repository on Github, I had initially included only 12 static PNG images of the mark at different specific sizes.Several people asked me why I had done this instead of including a vector graphic, and the reason is actually quite important.4 INCHES - DCURT.IS
October 3, 2012 4 Inches. A few months ago, in an article called 3.5 Inches, I wrote that the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen was the perfect size for human thumb reach.Now that the iPhone 5 has been released with its larger 4-inch screen, I think it’s time to re-evaluate theissue.
ONE OF THE DUMBEST THINGS I’VE EVER PUBLISHED Now read this Andrew Johnson’s Obituary. The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published on August 1, 1875: The history this man leaves is a rare one. WHAT HAPPENED TO APPLE’S INDUSTRIAL DESIGN TEAM? What happened to Apple’s industrial design team? It seems as though every major division at Apple has been running at full-power for the past couple of years–the raw technology coming out of the company has been truly remarkable: its A-series chips are the fastest and most secure smartphone SOC s in the world, the iPhone has the best FACEBOOK’S NUMBERS I like to look at raw numbers every once in a while, without external influence, to recalibrate my ability to judge the magnitude of things. Here are some of the numbers from Facebook’s most recent S-1 filing (published on May 3rd) which I think | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. WHATEVER GOES UP, THAT’S WHAT WE DO March 27, 2014 Whatever goes up, that’s what we do. A year ago, Facebook announced a new News Feed that was completely redesigned to focus on content–it had large photos, big user icons, better integration with Facebook messenger, and it brought Facebook’s website into closer alignment with its mobile apps. STEVE BALLMER’S MICROSOFT Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft. May 15, 2012. You can call Steve Ballmer many things, but you cannot call him the “the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today,” as Forbes’ Adam Hartung did in a recent article. It’s easy to see Microsoft as a bumbling fool of the tech world, but when you look closely at its business, theSvbtle Menu
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BILL GATES IS ANGRY
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real science. But now he appears to be finished with that nonsense. He almost sounds angry. On the CDC, which has been conspicuously absent during this pandemic: > You would expect the CDC to be the most visible, not the White House > or even Anthony Fauci. But they haven’t been the face of the > epidemic. They are trained to communicate and not try to panic > people but get people to take things seriously. They have basically > been muzzled since the beginning. We called the CDC, but they told > us we had to talk to the White House a bunch of times. Now they say, > “Look, we’re doing a great job on testing, we don’t want to > talk to you.” Even the simplest... Continue reading → -------------------------Jan 28, 2020
IPAD IN 2020
A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my MacBook Pro at all, and forced myself to do everything on the iPad. After that experience, I planned to write some kind of review, but it turned out that my conclusions were prettysimple:
_iPad Pro running iOS 13 can technically do almost everything a MacBook Pro can, but it is incredibly frustrating to use. Accomplishing anything other than trivial tasks takes 2-5x longer with 10x more cognitive overhead than on a Mac. iPadOS is simply an annoying operating system to use._ The iPad is amazing for content consumption and certain types of gaming, but no matter how much Apple pundits might try to say the iPad is a device well-suited for “creation,” it just isn’t – unless you are an artist using Apple Pencil. And so, as the iPad turns ten years old this week, I agree with JohnGruber’s...
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THE 16-INCH MACBOOK PRO: A FASTER HORSE From Apple’s announcement of the 16-Inch MacBook Pro a couple ofweeks ago:
> “Our pro customers tell us they want their next MacBook Pro to > have a larger display, blazing-fast performance, the biggest battery > possible, the best notebook keyboard ever, awesome speakers and > massive amounts of storage, and the 16-inch MacBook Pro delivers all > of that and more,” said Tom Boger, Apple’s senior director of > Mac and iPad Product Marketing. It’s almost unthinkable, but it appears that Apple compiled a laundry list of customer complaints about the 15-Inch MacBook Pro and then simply addressed them, matter-of-factly. Bigger screen? Sure. Unreliable keyboard? Reverted. Not enough RAM? Fixed. There is no story behind the 16-Inch MacBook Pro. It has no soul. It is just a larger, heavier 15-Inch MacBook Pro that lazily fixes some serious flaws that have been left extremely conspicuously unaddressed... Continue reading → -------------------------Nov 1, 2019
APPLE TV, APPLE TV, APPLE TV, AND APPLE TV+ Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that operates similarly to Apple TV on Apple TV. Apple TV on iOS/iPadOS syncs playback and watch history with Apple TV on Apple TV, but only if the iOS/iPadOS device has the same apps installed as the Apple TV – and not all apps are available on all platforms. Apple TV is also an app on macOS, but it does not show content that can only be streamed from external apps on an Apple TV or iOS/iPadOS device. Apple TV is an app or built-in feature of other devices, like smart TVs and streaming set-top boxes, but when Apple TV is running on a third party device, it does not show content from other installed appson that...
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BUILDING NEW WORLDS
Earlier this summer, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled The World Is a Mess. We Need Fully Automated Luxury Communism,by Aaron Bastani:
> To say the present era is one of crisis borders on cliché. We > inhabit a world of low growth, low productivity and low wages, of > climate breakdown and the collapse of democratic politics. A world > where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty. A world > defined by inequality.>
> But the most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of > collective imagination. It is as if humanity has been afflicted by a > psychological complex, in which we believe the present world is > stronger than our capacity to remake it – as if it were not our > ancestors who created what stands before us now. As if the very > essence of humanity, if there is such a thing, is not to constantly > build new worlds.>
> If we can move beyond such a failure, we... Continue reading → -------------------------Jul 21, 2019
BOURDAIN ON THE JOURNEY > Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. > Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. > The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on > your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. > You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good> behind.
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> Anthony Bourdain ------------------------- Published from Medellín, Colombia.View →
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HOW TO HOST A STATIC WEBSITE WITH HTTPS ON AWS, USING S3 ANDCLOUDFRONT
Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. I host several sites using the method described below, and it costs me pennies per month. The only problem is that getting things set up–especially with HTTPS support–isn’t exactlystraightforward.
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* We’ll create and configure two S3 buckets. One will serve static content via S3. The other will be used simply to redirect www.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com. * We’ll create an SSL certificate using AWS Certificate Manager. * We’ll set up two CloudFront distributions which will use the S3 buckets as origins. (The website itself will be served through CloudFront’s edge locations, but the files will be stored on S3.) * We’ll set up DNS alias records which point to CloudFront, usingRoute 53.
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* CREATE TWO BUCKETS IN S3. It doesn’t... Continue reading → -------------------------May 30, 2019
ONE OF THE DUMBEST THINGS I’VE EVER PUBLISHED While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called _Privacy vs. User Experience_, published in 2014. In the article, I argued that Apple’s then-nascent philosophical stance on the supremacy of user privacy was going to slow down its product development while competitors fully embraced deep data mining techniques to build better user experiences. It is, I believe, one of the dumbest, most _wrong_ things I have everpublished.
The essay’s structure isn’t actually that bad. It has a strong thesis. The whole thing seems relatively innocuous, whether or not you agree with the premise. What makes _Privacy vs. User Experience_ so dangerous as an essay is that the thesis is undeniably correct in the abstract and yet completely wrong in practice. There is no valid counterargument to the abstract idea. It is a fact that if a company has better data and... Continue reading → -------------------------Feb 18, 2019
ANDREW JOHNSON’S OBITUARY The New York Times obituary for President Andrew Johnson, published onAugust 1, 1875:
> The history this man leaves is a rare one. His career was > remarkable, even in this country; it would have been quite > impossible in any other. It presents the spectacle of a man who > never went to school a day in his life rising from a humble > beginning as a tailor’s apprentice through a long succession of > posts of civil responsibility to the highest office in the land, and > evincing his continued hold upon the popular heart by a subsequent > election to the Senate in the teeth of a bitter personal and > political opposition….>
> Whatever else may be said of him, his integrity and courage have > been seldom questioned though often proved. He was by nature and > temperament squarely disposed toward justice and the right, and was > a determined warrior for his convictions. He erred from limitation > of grasp and... Continue reading → -------------------------Jan 18, 2019
HOW EVOLUTION REALLY WORKS Most people are taught that biological evolution is a linear, slow, and gradual process which leads to change only after incalculably long periods of time. This is mostly inaccurate. While gradual evolution does occur, it is relatively rare. As it turns out, the way evolution really tends to work is through a phenomenon called punctuatedequilibrium1 .
The basic idea is this: most of the time, organisms and ecosystems remain in _stasis_–that is, a state of harmony and balance–with very limited evolutionary change. However, every once in a while, something dramatic will happen to the environment, throwing things out of alignment–say, a new predator will arrive, or maybe there will be a natural disaster that changes selective pressures. As organisms adjust to the change, rapid evolutionary adaptation occurs. It is often swift and brutal. Eventually, a state of equilibrium is reachedonce...
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