Great news: Instapaper will replace the (dead) Pocket integration on Kobo e-readers!

Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

Instapaper Rakuten Kobo IntegrationWe’re excited to announce a new integration that will bring Instapaper to all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. The i...

Alan Dye doesn’t design UI. He hides it.

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Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)

Attached: 1 image The more time I spend with Liquid Glass, the more I don't understand Alan Dye's and the design team's obsession with minimizing ...

Honestly, this is making Terminal (and Safari) in Tahoe VERY hard for me to use. Tabs in Tahoe are extremely difficult to distinguish from each other and from the active tab. I've never switched away from Safari, and I've never investigated third-party terminal apps, but if this ships in the fall, I'll most likely need to do both. And I really, really don't want to. Please, Apple, fix your design. Computers aren't passive "content" viewers — they're tools.

Manton Reece

Liquid Glass’ blurred content everywhere is especially cruel to those of us who use reading glasses or progressives. The reflex to seeing blurry text on our phones is to adjust our sight angle or distance to sharpen it. But, of course, it’s not our fault, doesn’t sharpen, and just causes eyestrain. Text on my phone should never be blurry.

True. But that's true of every big fandom. Google's been doing *wildly* unethical things for years, and most nerds never called them out because they made great tech, it worked well, and we liked the nerdy ethos that the founders had. Like Apple, that ethos left a long time ago, but it's hard for us to stop believing it. We *want* to believe, because we're fans! https://urusai.social/@nazokiyoubinbou/114739279452257744

This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie. Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all? Oh wait, that’s already what happens. Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder. They truly have no standards anymore.

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Casey Liss (@caseyliss@mastodon.social)

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The tab bar is comically unreadable.

I already have as many users on iOS 26 as I do on iOS 17. Developer beta 1. 🤣

We've known for decades that translucency in UIs looks really cool, but is extremely difficult to design in a way that works with arbitrary content across versatile situations. With the glass-redesign rumors, many of us thought, “If anyone can do it, it's Apple! They must've finally solved it." They haven’t. It still looks cool in some contexts, and utterly fails in others.

First swear word in Apple's official documentation?

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