Notices by John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)

@Gargron It’s weird when you think about. It’s like they’ve drilled a peephole in the wall, but it’s obvious they need to build a full door.

@Gargron What explains the prominence of IFTTT?

@amigalove @limi When was Apple at its nadir, in genuine danger of disappearing? When they ran ads like this:

@amigalove @limi Don’t get me wrong. I will admit I never used a Commodore 128, but I had friends with the C64 in the 80s and it was great. And Amiga, of course, was a full decade ahead of its time in some ways. Video Toaster!

But I’m saying that an ad campaign like this betrays a mindset at a company that is destined to lose.

@amigalove @limi Worked out really well for Commodore.

@arstechnica Half true!

Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.

Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.

Microsoft should create and launch a Reddit clone, keep the API completely open for client developers (but not data miners), pay top Reddit moderators to move their communities over, and use the project’s data for continuously training their own AI models.

@nathansnelgrove One thing I learned long ago is that people like us who prioritize design, UI, and UX can empathize with and understand the choices made by people who prioritize other factors (e.g. raw feature count, or software being free-of-charge). But it doesn't work the other way: most people who prioritize other things can't fathom why anyone cares deeply about design/UI/UX. Thus they chalk it up to being hypnotized by marketing or something.