Louie Mantia, Jr.

In 2000, Apple introduced a service called iReview where they would review / rate websites so people could find which ones were good or useful. I almost feel like we’re in desperate need of some way for independent organizations and individuals to review / rate websites. It should affect search ranking, probably. There’s too much bullshit with the advent of AI slop, and without intervention, we’re just going to end up surfing in a sea of garbage. We should be able to demote trash.

Was talking with a friend a few months ago about Alan Dye and how he even got that job to begin with, and I said this: “But like there’s Steve Lemay or Patrick Coffman, and neither of them got this job for some reason.” Anyway, it’s great that Lemay finally got the job.

I don’t care how bad you think you are at HTML (and CSS). A website that you wrote the HTML yourself is infinitely better than any template-based website you pulled from somewhere else. If you think it’s going to be too much work, I promise you, fiddling with a template-based solution is going to—somehow—be more work, especially to maintain as the framework, template, or font changes without you knowing. Write it yourself. One of my all-time favorite websites is this:

Vitale's Bakery

I assume a fair bit of people don’t know I make fonts. Even if you don’t have a need for fonts, I recommend checking out the website I made for my type foundry, Crown. A lot of work went into this website to make it a great showcase for the work Ender and I are doing together. 🔗

The Crown Type Company

As we collectively look back on what the Mac once was, I don’t want to conflate the repercussions of Apple’s design decisions with the massive fundamental shift that occurred in 2008 when developers chased after the iPhone market, leaving the Mac behind. Yes, app icons don’t look like this anymore, but also... very few apps are developed for the Mac these days. I would love to create an app icon like this again, but I’d like to see *apps* that were like this again.

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Noah Liebman (@noleli@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Never forget what we lost when Apple decided they should all be the same shape https://www.macosicongallery.com/years/2013/

Honestly, it really is things like this that make it clear how special Disneyland is, specifically in California. 70 years of institutional knowledge of what happens and what to do. Disneyland often does what the rest of the world won’t. And I love that so much.

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Cabel Sasser (@cabel@panic.com)

Attached: 2 images my daughter lost a tooth at disneyland yesterday… and of COURSE they had something ready to keep it safe. 🥰

hi my name is louie and it’s my opinion that text fields should always be super-duper extra frosted or completely opaque, no matter what

I’ve got better things to do than write about Liquid Glass (again), and yet, here I am. 🔗

I’ve Got Better Things To Do Than This, and Yet

Is Dr. Dre still an employee at Apple?

You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong. Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.