Daring Fireball

Paul Kafasis, writing at Rogue Amoeba’s blog, “Free the Icons”:
Apple’s prohibition on shapes is a step backward for bothusability and creativity in app icons. Icons are now harder todistinguish because they’re no longer allowed to be distinctive.But there’s no technical reason for it. Apple could, and should,once...

The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type Identifier for Markdown data:
UTI: net.daringfireball.markdown
Conforms to: public.utf8-plain-text...

There’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding Backblaze — an online backup service whose simple pitch is that it backs up your entire entire computer, both the startup drive and external drives — and online...

Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread):
Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in coursehere. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens.While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop,Google has long been all-in on the browser. That leaves Anthropicas...