Francisco Tolmasky

Founder @runkitdev and TC-39 Delegate. Previously: Original iPhone team on MobileSafari, Creator of Objective-J and Cappuccino.

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2024-07-05 19:43:27

I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.

2024-06-24 03:52:01

Something lost in this "Dropbox is a feature, not a product" story is that today, more than 10 years later, iCloud Drive (Apple' s implementation of this "feature") still sucks. And Dropbox is arguably only falling behind because macOS has made it increasingly difficult to make a 3rd party syncing solution that "just works.” So maybe the real lesson is that Apple, like Game of Thrones’ Littlefinger, "would see the [OS] burn, as long as they can be king of the ashes”.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/wwdc24_apple_intelligence

2024-06-13 23:47:33

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@npub1eee…e209 “A second AI partner has hit Siri…”

2024-05-20 00:32:09

Can we get rid of receipts now? Why do they still exist in a world of phone contactless payments? It’s just a way to get you to touch even more PFAS shit. I’m even starting to get receipts in shipped packages now. It’s so annoying when it’s thrown on your food. I don’t want any more receipts. Enough. Let’s stop printing this shit once and for all.

2024-03-20 00:32:52

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@npub1eee…e209 And famously clear leading to no long running arguments about any amendments nor creating any opportunities for differing interpretations nor creating loopholes any, shall we say, “elastic” loopholes. A true testament to the expressive power of brevity.

2024-02-23 18:06:45

People who say that Apple is anti-web have no idea what they're talking about. Just this week they released the Apple Sports app *specifically* to showcase why Web Apps are so often a better choice than native apps. It's a masterful proof by example. By stripping what could have been a fun app down to its barest components, a flat list of scores with no design whatsoever, they can focus on demonstrating how these "list apps" are usually just the thinnest of wrappers around a JSON API. (1/🧵)
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2024-02-10 22:45:32

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@npub1eee…e209 It is *maybe* the best of 4 miserably bad options, but it is in no way “good”, nor anywhere near as good as it could be. A curated hellhole full of gambling traps for children that somehow still manages to let scams run for a week is nothing to be proud of, even if it is better than a competitor that isn’t even trying. Once upon a time we expected more from Apple. I guess I have to agree with you that that’s not realistic anymore.

2024-02-09 18:09:34

.@npub1eee…e209 The argument is that the App Store is *worse* for security because it creates a false sense of security. Users incorrectly believe that unlike the web, "if it's on the App Store, it must be safe" This was particularly bad with the flood of scam 2FA apps when Twitter shifted to SMS-based 2FA. Imagine an FDA as half-assed as the App Store, accidentally only requiring cancer warnings on *some* cigarettes, leading people to buy the cigarettes that “don't cause cancer.” That's the App Store.

2023-10-14 20:37:16

Apple’s position simply makes no sense. If there was no other valid alternative, they’d *have to* use Google for free, not be able to twist their arm to get $21B out of them. They’d have no leverage if Google were the only game in town. You pay someone to do things they don’t have to do, not to do the only option available to them. Certainly not to the tune of $21B. For some context, this is equal to their entire Services *revenue*. /cc @npub1eee…e209
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23891037/apple-eddy-cue-testimony-us-google
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/12/cue-apple-google

2023-10-02 16:45:49

If Google was evil *and* smart (instead of just evil), they would show tech people, who probably have never once clicked on an ad result ever anyways, the same quality of results that we used to get back in the day. That way we'd still be recommending Google and thinking to ourselves "what is everyone complaining about?” instead of actively trying to figure out what's going on.
https://twitter.com/pdrmnvd/status/1707395736458207430?s=61&t=UPVm_rAGsAxo-a_Da9s3vw
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2023-09-16 13:26:47

Do you think Apple is keeping actually interesting colors as an ace up their sleeve to deploy in case a generation ever seriously underperforms? Like a Bright Banana Yellow or Blue Dalmatian iPhone Pro Ultra Max Extreme S?

2023-08-02 19:01:32

If I am understanding this thread correctly, Apple might disable your AppleID if your credit card is stolen... even if the fraudulent charge doesn't even happen on your account. It's crazy that disabling an AppleID is a remedy for *anything*, let alone things not happening on your account. That means you’d lose all your emails on iCloud, BACKUPS on iCloud, data, your logins to every site you used sign-in-with-Apple, the list goes on. This is absolutely crazy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974358

2023-08-01 19:29:52

Has anyone every defined any other "OMs” aside from the "DOM”? As in, "something-else Object Model”? Any prior art there?

2023-07-26 13:08:40

Mozilla should call for a vote on the removal of Google from the W3C over the implementation of Web Environment Integrity. "But Chrome has 65% market share, what good is the W3C without them?” If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is *already* useless. This will give Google a clear choice: if they want to maintain the idea that the W3C matters, they should withdraw this implementation.
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
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2023-06-12 02:43:04

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@npub1eee…e209 A question I am struggling with is whether the real price is $10,500 (3 person family). I'm not sure someone can justify to their family buying one for just for themselves (or for everyone, but using it serially?). Like a computer you can justify, you need it for work. Do the 2D movies on an enormous screen justify 10K so the family can watch it? I legitimately don't know.

2023-06-05 18:48:55

“The device is molded out a single piece of Aluminium, and modeled after nature's most elegant legume, the humble bean. An incredible and capable tool that blends digital content with bean-like design.” #WWDC23
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2023-06-05 17:47:26

Is Konfabulator the first app to be Sherlocked 3 times, in 2 separate decades? #WWDC23

2023-06-05 02:46:06

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@npub1d0s…egda Perhaps a time when it was encouraged but never a time when it was done. We went from using tables for everything, to surprisingly similar tag soup created by DreamWeaver, to Flash, to this. The problem has almost always been that we never bothered to figure out why people do this instead of just yelling at them. That’s how we ended up with the best answer being Web Components and uh… the article tag? At least we got the video tag, I guess.

2023-05-04 18:27:24

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@npub1lj7…zczx Correction, *most things* don’t deserve a state-granted (and protected, at tax-payers’ expense) monopoly (judges, patent reviewers, copyright offices, all cost money).