Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
macOS Tahoe’s Folder Icon Customization
William Gallagher: It’s not like it’s going to take you long, since there are just two elements to this: Changing a folder’s colorAdding either an icon or an emoji to the folderIn this case, icons and emoji don’t sound all that different — whichever you choose, you end up with a symbol appearing on the […]
Apple Wins Dismissal in Payments Conspiracy Lawsuit
Hartley Charlton: Apple has successfully secured the dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing it of conspiring with Visa and Mastercard to suppress competition in the payments network industry and inflate merchant transaction fees (via Reuters).[…]The plaintiffs claimed that Visa and Mastercard made ongoing payments to Apple, described as “a very large and ongoing cash bribe,” […]
Almost Fired for Color Picker Poetry
John Calhoun: It was frankly a thing I liked about working for Apple in those days. The engineers were the one’s driving the ship. As I said, I wrote an HSV picker because it was, I thought, a more intuitive color space for artists. I wrote the HTML color picker because of the advent of […]
Mac Automation With a Tiny Game Controller
John Voorhees: I never expected my game controller obsession to pay automation dividends, but it did last week in the form of the tiny 16-button 8BitDo Micro. For the past week, I’ve used the Micro to dictate on my Mac, interact with AI chatbots, and record and edit podcasts. While the setup won’t replace a […]
Nvidia’s Market Cap
Samantha Subin and Kif Leswing (via Hacker News): Nvidia stock rose on Wednesday lifting the company’s market cap briefly past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant that’s building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom.[…]Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company, surpassing […]