Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Infinite Canvas

Christian Tietze (Mastodon): InfiniteCanvas is a simple, delightful “whiteboarding” app. It’s not for fine art, but for conceptual drawings, and gets out of your way so that you can get ideas on the (digital) paper quickly. […] Infinite Canvas is like Prezi (the presentation app) for drawings: you can nest drawings ‘inside’ others by zooming […]

Upgrading My Mac’s External SSD

I recently replaced a 4 TB 2.5-inch hard drive with a same-sized SSD, with the goal of making it quieter and faster. Instead, it got much slower. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing wrong with the SSD itself (a Samsung T7). The drive tests fine, and I have half a dozen other drives […]

Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry

Colin Cornaby: I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023.If you game on a MacBook display – your game is probably rendering wrong unless you’ve adjusted your settings. If you’re a developer building a full screen game in AppKit (or Catalyst) – […]

App Store Promotion and X/Grok

Tim Hardwick: Elon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple, claiming that the company is violating antitrust rules by favoring OpenAI’s ChatGPT in App Store rankings over his Grok AI assistant. Elon Musk: Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App […]

UIKit in iOS 26

Seb Vidal (via Steve Troughton-Smith): As always, Apple has done a good job of documenting the big changes to UIKit. This year’s What’s New in UIKit session is well worth tuning in to! However, there’s only so much you can fit into an easily digestible dub dub session and, at the time of writing, even […]