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Daring Fireball: The Talk Show
Friday, 21 November 2025 Special guest Stephen Robles joins the show. Topics include indie media and YouTube, Shortcuts and automation, and the state of podcasting. Tuesday, 18 November 2025 Special g...
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★ What’s Good for the iOS Goose Is Often Not Good for the MacOS Gander
Tobias Steinke, replying on Mastodon to my “Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’” piece:
But iOS app icons (and iPadOS) were always in squircle shape. Whyis and was this okay for you, but it’s not for macOS?
This is a good and fair question. But I not only have an answer, I have an answer that clarifies why this entire debate is important. That “design is how it works” applies even to something as seemingly superficial as icons.... -
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‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973
Back in the primordial days of AI, PARRY was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to ELIZA (a.k.a. “DOCTOR”). Vint Cerf published the...
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Mac Apps Can Escape From Squircle Jail If They’re Not in the Mac App Store
Tyler Hall:
We all know about macOS Tahoe’s terrible app icons and how3rd party developers have been confined to squircle jail.
If you’re lucky enough to distribute an app outside the Mac AppStore, you can break free of squircle jail usingNSDockTilePlugIn. It’s not strictly the intended use-case ofthat API. And it’s not allowed in the Mac App Store, either. Butit can solve the... -
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‘Searching for SmarterChild’ Kickstarter
After my reading my posts earlier today about ELIZA, the first “hit” chatbot from the 1960s, DF reader AP sent me a link to the Kickstarter page for Searching for SmarterChild, a project from documentary filmmakers Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies to make...
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