In app purchases from (crappy) games is top revenue source in App Store. Anecdotally, I’d be shocked if the majority of that wasn’t from kids using their parents’ phones.

Prepare to be shocked real good then: it’s from adults who are affluent or addicted.

In the Pokemon Go days, about 10 years back, the top whales were spending 5- and 6-figure amounts on that game's in-app purchases.

Does it matter what the age of the users are? Clearly they are all children regardless.

I wouldn’t expect that either given the little that I know about the rigorous software requirements for aviation.

But I assume that neither of us has anywhere near enough expertise to “refuse” to believe that any computer/software system could be used in dangerously absurd ways even accidentally.

This was poignant. Thanks.

This reads like one of the clearest intros to C that I have seen in a long time. Feels approachable the whole way through.

Thanks for your kind words! They really encourage me to share more. Please be aware that there might still be some bugs, so feel free to create issues or pull requests!

the liquid glass video controls on iOS absolutely does obscure more of the content than the pre-26 players did and it's not even close. it's just UI chrome for its own sake

it's not a change in webkit. the webpage just displays the current OS video player. i read the page in Sequoia and it shows the old version

It reminds me also of the original head of development of the Safari browser talking about at least the early days of building the browser. They had a rule that no commit of code could cause the browser benchmarks to get slower. And apparently he was maniacal about the rule.

I don’t know if that’s a good or realistic rule for most projects, but I imagine for performant types of applications, that’s exactly what it takes to prevent eventual slowdown.

That reminds me of Linus' attitude about breaking userspace for security fixes.

Having seen the shuttle in person in LA museum, I was struck by how much it looked like a plane sitting on a flat heat shield surface

Someone posted about a little Easter egg wherein the Next icon was buried somewhere in iPadOs but I’ve never been able to track it down since.

The whole NeXT GUI widget set, as well as Rhapsody GUI widget set, and several 80‘s style NeXT tool icons, are still in Mac OS 15 in some assets.car file. And before car files where a thing, it must have been either TIFFs or PDFs.

Here someone even hacked an older version of Mac OS X to actually use the NeXT and Platinum styles: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/110708615280659758

I'm so glad someone documented this. it's been driving me crazy. I was just in a serious crunch mode for a couple of week, so all kinds of minor speed bumps in my workflow have become really evident to me. The UI transition between PR "tabs" has been one of the worst.