Horace Dediu is a blogger I’ve been reading for a couple of years now. He’s an analyst known for writing really detailed reports about Apple’s sales numbers and projections and things of that sort. Recently he’s been covering Apple less as he’s become more personally interested in the world of micromobility¹, but every once in a while, he publishes a piece about Apple that just blows my socks off.

Two months ago, shortly after the new iPad mini was released, he published an article called “mini”, which closes with this insightful paragraph that I absolutely loved:

Fundamentally explaining mini is pointless. mini is something that is felt more than it is perceived. You can see the attraction of a tiny product only when you come face-to-face with it. In a picture it’s hard to get it–there is no frame of reference. What draws me to a MacBook or to a mini or a Watch is when it’s touched...

Mercury OS is a futuristic concept operating system designed by Jason Juan.

Jason explains how he came up with Mercury in a blog post for UX Collective on Medium:

My breakthrough came when I realized that I had been asking all the wrong questions. I had spent months trying to invent new ways to navigate existing systems — but what if those systems were fundamentally flawed? What if the experience of Mercury required a radical re-invention of everything I had been taking for granted?

When personal computers were first being designed like 40 years ago, they were created for people who have never before used a computer. To make them easy to understand, designers came up with the desktop metaphor with files, a trash can, and apps that exist as their own little worlds called windows that you drag around and stuff.

Jason’s idea essentially proposes an OS that liberates its users by...

Chris Hughes, the cofounder of Facebook in an op-ed for The New York Times:

Mark is still the same person I watched hug his parents as they left our dorm’s common room at the beginning of our sophomore year. He is the same person who procrastinated studying for tests, fell in love with his future wife while in line for the bathroom at a party and slept on a mattress on the floor in a small apartment years after he could have afforded much more. In other words, he’s human. But it’s his very humanity that makes his unchecked power so problematic.

I thought this part was particularly funny. 👽

NME:

It looks like The 1975 could finally drop their ‘She’s American’ video, two years after it was initially set to debut.

The song, taken from the band’s 2016 album ‘I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It’, was expected to be released as a single on Christmas Day two years ago.

Last year, they released a full concert from their last tour on their YouTube as a Christmas gift to their fans, so with that in mind plus the preview video Matty tweeted, I think there’s some solid evidence that this video will finally be released.

There’s so much out there to listen to, let me help you find the good stuff

I’ve always LOVED podcasts, basically since I was a teenager and would download them through iTunes and listen to them on my iPod.

Though the occasional scripted, storytelling style episode can be good, I almost exclusively listen to conversation shows with hosts that are more relaxed.

It’s cool how after you listen to a podcast for a while, ¹ you get to know the hosts and you get to develop a kind of one-way friendship with them.

So anyway, I was thinking of talking about some of my favourite shows that I regularly listen to.

Click each podcast’s title link to see each podcast’s website and subscribe!

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Accidental Tech Podcast is really well known in the Apple community, it features 3 developers who analyze the latest news around the company and they frequently have the most insightful conversations...

I love this so much. It gives you such a fresh view of the game I love so much. I especially love the feeling of momentum as Mario does triple jumps.

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I’ve been thinking about the HomePod, and what it may be like to have one when it comes out in 2018.

I’ve also been thinking about my AirPods, which I’ve had for about 6 months now. I knew having wireless earbuds would be nice, but I didn’t predict I would love them as much as I honestly do.

People ask me about them a lot because I always have them in. They’re super convenient, always charged, and while you’re wearing the AirPods, you can’t even feel them in your ears. For me, it’s like music just being summoned out of nothing.

The AirPods really are a great product, and that’s largely because they play to Apple’s strengths. They’re small, battery operated, and packed with sensors. They have the money, engineers, and know how to make industry leading wireless earbuds.

So ya, with the HomePod, I can’t help but think Apple is trying to create a product that complements AirPods. (They...

I’ve always had trouble wrapping my mind around how ems work when working with typography on the web. I’ve been reading through this web typography guide and it has this explanation that makes it super clear how measuring in ems works:

[t]he em is a sliding measure. One em is a distance equal to the type size. In 6 point type, an em is 6 points; in 12 point type an em is 12 points and in 60 point type an em is 60 points. Thus a one em space is proportionately the same in any size.