Safari 15 and Chickenshit Minimalism

Stephen Hackett, Six Colors: Apple seems to be unhappy with the traditional browser design that includes navigation tools at the top, with websites being forced to live in their own view down below, and with Safari 15, it has blurred the line between browser and web content. This … | Continue reading


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Annotated Photo Edits

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Google ‘Experiments’ with Bringing RSS Capabilities Back to Chrome

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All developers are equal, but some developers are more equal than others

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The California Exception

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@pxlnv.com | 3 years ago

Sidebar: Translucency

I do not know that I have made it clear how much I appreciate many aspects of MacOS Big Sur’s visual design update, which is something even I did not fully understand until I was compelled to use Catalina full-time for a week. Last year, my iMac developed some shadowing in the co … | Continue reading


@pxlnv.com | 3 years ago

SolarWinds’ Poor Security Can Be Traced to Its Private Equity Financialization

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Nick Heer on Salesforce’s Slack acquisition

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App Review Rejects Information Superhighway

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Apple Formally Begins Permitting Ads in Push Notifications

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@pxlnv.com | 4 years ago

An avenue by which it might be technically possible to give an iPhone ‘the software equivalent of cancer’

In 2016, ABC News’ David Muir interviewed Tim Cook about why Apple was fighting the FBI’s order to create a modified version of iOS that would allow the forced unlocking of the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooting perpetrators. Memorably, he called the development of … | Continue reading


@pxlnv.com | 4 years ago

Nick Heer on Teen Vogue’s weird, now-removed puff piece on Facebook’s election security

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An Editorial in the Hill Almost Makes a Good Point About Privacy

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Zuck Testified Before House Financial Services Committee and It Didn’t Go Well

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@pxlnv.com | 4 years ago

One year after ‘The Big Hack’

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Bloomberg’s publication of a story about Chinese intelligence intercepting the supply chain of Supermicro, a company which has built and sold servers to Amazon, Apple, the U.S. Department of Defense, and dozens of other companies. Apparentl … | Continue reading


@pxlnv.com | 4 years ago

18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition: Short lived, but a hundred million dollars

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Nick Heer: ‘On Apple Portables in the Approximately $1,200 to $1,300 Price Range’

With the release of the Retina MacBook Air earlier this month came questions about how the product fits into the rest of Apple’s laptop lineup — especially since the starting prices of the MacBook and MacBook Pro are just $100 more than the Air. And, if you wanted, you could argu … | Continue reading


@pxlnv.com | 5 years ago

On Apple Portables in the Approximately $1,200 to $1,300 Price Range

With the release of the Retina MacBook Air earlier this month came questions about how the product fits into the rest of Apple’s laptop lineup — especially since the starting prices of the MacBook and MacBook Pro are just $100 more than the Air. And, if you wanted, you could argu … | Continue reading


@pxlnv.com | 5 years ago

The Bullshit Web: A Theory of Why the Modern Web Is So Slow

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loadi … | Continue reading


@pxlnv.com | 5 years ago

DuckDuckGoogle

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What Happened to Apple’s Whimsy?

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The Fonts of Google Tasks

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