Marco Arment / is on Nostr

Developer of the Overcast app on iOS and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast. Powered by coffee and an unreasonable amount of Phish.

Blog: https://marco.org/
Podcast: Accidental Tech Podcast (npub1f30…d2kp)
App: Overcast (npub10ex…f560)

Last Notes

2024-07-02 17:55:05

It DOES suck. Democrats ARE ineffective and DO fail to undo most of the GOP’s damage. Even when Dems have full power, they somehow never have any power. That's all correct, and it's frustrating as hell.
That's a stand to take in the primaries.
And then in November, vote like hell for Biden.
Not voting, voting third-party, or voting Republican isn't sending a message to the Democrats. It's literally just voting for a FAR worse, FAR more evil, anti-American dictatorship.
https://mastodon.social/@dxpack/112717826273844095

2024-06-30 14:59:29

swift is good
swift is good
i like swift now
swift is good
swift is good
wow i'm really getting productive with swift
swift is good
_[needs to take a substring of a string]_
GAAAAAHHHHHHH WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE

2024-06-14 21:11:52

Google continues to shit all over the web unless you sign into a Google account and let them (further) track you everywhere you go.
Just as Apple believes everything on the iPhone is theirs, Google believes the entire web is theirs — a much greater offense to me, and one that shows absolutely no respect for anyone else's property, attention, or privacy.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/617/030/213/574/299/original/a9f7b8ac0ef26711.png

2024-05-29 12:41:28

My favorite thing about tethering is
nothing
nothing is my favorite thing about tethering
Please, cellular Macs already!
(Today's anti-favorite: if the phone loses reception for even a moment — common on trains! — it disconnects tethering and never reconnects. You're just offline until you notice. Then you need to reconnect from the Mac's Wi-Fi menu again, after waiting for the option to become available, a process that's almost as slow as dialing up your ISP with a modem in the 1900s.)

2024-05-07 14:18:17

The entire Mac processor and display lineup: "Shit.”