Co-Founder of Cloud Four. Author of Progressive Web Apps from A Book Apart. Trying to balance work, life, and taking care of my father. he/him
Because app devs don’t want to prompt people for reviews unless they like the app, they often ask, “Are you enjoying the app?” first.
Because I am in a hurry trying to get something done, I often respond “No” to avoid the review prompt that comes next.
I hope no one is actually using these metrics.
How can we make our products better if we integrate a Magic 8 Ball?
I had hoped they pulled it because they were embarrassed by the size of the AI-generated web page. Alas… https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/openai-pulls-promotional-materials-around-jony-ive-deal/
“I read the Fiverr CEO memo and immediately recognized something I’ve watched happen across creative industries: AI functions as the perfect management tool for increasing extraction while decreasing worker leverage” https://substack.com/@itssophieschoice/note/c-115766170
What a stupid podcast ad: “Looking for something to add to your bucket list? Meta AI goes beyond traveling the world. It remembers you’re a basketball fanatic and suggests you attend one of the playoff games.”
Wow, as a basketball fan, I would have never thought to go a playoff game without AI. 🙄
When Android Instant Apps were announced, the scuttlebutt was that they were vaporware and security pros had threatened to quit if they shipped as is. Finally shipped nine months later. Now EOL’d. Good riddance.
https://www.theverge.com/news/686573/google-android-instant-apps-shutdown
As @tylersticka says, we have few potential projects that might need some help with. JSP + JavaScript chops (web components FTW!) would be ideal for at least one of them. https://social.lol/@tylersticka/114671881126100526
reading: "Why Silicon Valley CTOs Are Secretly Moving Away from React"
— they're starting to see the cult for what it is!
Diabolus Ex Machina is something else https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?r=i691&triedRedirect=true
I’m sure there are things to add this, but @anildash.com’s list for What Would “Good” AI Look Like? is a good start. AI that aspired to these goals would be exciting to see. https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/01/what-would-good-ai-look-like/ http://anildash.com
@tylersticka @zachleat @yvg TIL that I haven’t been getting notifications from Mastodon. Sorry I missed this. Did someone look at it?
Our kid’s school asked for baby and current photos for a promotion ceremony slideshow. They asked for “100 to 300 DPI,” but no measurements. My wife asked me to translate that request, and I think my brain shortcircuited. “It is meaningless!”
I remain perplexed by the number of websites that don’t allow pasting complex data into fields. For example, when entering my routing and bank account numbers, why force me to retype them? Are we trying for accuracy or is this a typing test?
So proud of our @developers team for IO.
So many new tools and features to help web developers announced today. So much hard work over the last year, the team has rocked it.
After Steve Jobs died, there were many articles and a book that asked, ”What Would Steve Do?” I never found the idea compelling. Jobs wasn’t always admirable.
But today’s news (https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-little-problem-apple-143043003.html), makes me wonder what Steve would do during the Trump regime if he were at Apple’s helm.
I don’t know for certain what he would have done, but I’m pretty sure it would better than Tim Cook. https://www.macstories.net/stories/are-pride-wallpapers-and-a-watch-band-enough-in-2025/
Like most people who capitulate to Trump, Tim Cook has failed the Lando test.
”But what did you expect Niléane? We can’t expect the CEO of a tech giant to behave any differently.“
Let me get this straight, Internet friend: Because tech giants have selfish economic interests, we shouldn't be criticizing their behavior and expect anything from them? We should all just let it go and move on because that's what big companies do?
Apple is successfully protecting its economic interests, so they're exempt from all criticism. Is that what you're saying?
I still fail to understand what is it that you people are trying to say when you reply to this criticism with “Tim Cook is just doing his job. He's protecting Apple's interests.” — I'm not denying that, and no one is.
The only thing we're saying is: the successes Tim Cook has had protecting the interests of the company have a devastating human cost. And you are choosing to dismiss or minimize that fact entirely.
To the Apple fans fixated on defending Tim Cook, who have been clogging my replies on Mastodon and Bluesky over the past few days following my story on @macstories (https://www.macstories.net/stories/are-pride-wallpapers-and-a-watch-band-enough-in-2025/). Here is my response to you:
In 2014, Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript language and now CEO of Brave Software, was appointed as CEO of Mozilla. I will quote his Wikipedia page for you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation), and you will very quickly understand why:
> The appointment triggered widespread criticism due to Eich's past political donations – specifically, a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010.
The news of Eich's donations led to major protests inside the company and among Mozilla's supporters, volunteers, and users. Most notably, half of Mozilla's board stepped down. Which ultimately led to him resigning, just 11 days later:
> After 11 days as CEO, Eich resigned on April 3, 2014, and left Mozilla after public outrage. In his personal blog, he posted, "under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader".
I would argue that Tim Cook's donation is an even worse offense than Eich's. Cook made his $1M donation to President Trump's inauguration fund while it had already been public knowledge for years that he would immediately start his mandate by rolling back LGBT rights in devastating ways.
I think it would be more than fair to call for his resignation for the same reason that it was fair to call for Eich's resignation back in 2014. And yet, it seems that a majority of people are choosing to dismiss Cook's donation and subsequent stance regarding Trump's administration as either necessary, pardonable, or irrelevant.
@Ashedryden Apple News has a few word and puzzle games in it
I’m fortunate to have worked with a lot of amazing designers over the years. Some were curious about designing in the browser with basic #HTML and #CSS, but weren’t sure where to begin, or felt discouraged by a lot of developer-centric content.
This is the advice I gave that seemed to resonate most: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/designing-in-the-browser-five-tips-for-beginners/
@eeeps @matthiasott @kevinpowell @mdn you're not helping
