I wanted to pay some attention to a smaller design update across iOS 26, which I believe shows great insights on hierarchy and reachability from apple. The new Search bar in iOS 26.No, I don’t know why I have a contact labeled “Finance”. In all but a handful of apps1 in the iOS 26 Dev beta, the Search bar has moved...

Day 6, What is or was your relationship with people from your parent’s generation? When I was younger I thought it was pretty good. But I’ll be honest, once I’d moved away from the parents twenty years back, the times I’ve worked with folks of that same age range has been limited. The ones I’ve worked with have...

At Apple's annual developer marketing conference, the Safari team announced a sizeable set of features that will be available in a few months. Substantially all of them are already shipped in leading-edge browsers. Here's the list, prefixed by the year that these features shipped to stable in Chromium: 2023: WebGPU...

Today I want to talk about my forever games. I don't mean games that never end, like Minecraft, but rather games that I keep coming back to and play in perpetuity. All of these games are the ones that will always be installed on whatever gaming system I have at hand. This list is not in any particular order. OpenTTD...

He estado haciendo algunos cambios en el blog. Por un lado, en cada página del blog deberíais ver un listado de posts relacionados. Iré ajustando los índices poco a poco, pero ahora mismo saco cinco posts relacionados de alguna forma con otros que están ya publicados en el blog. Ha sido divertido montarlo. En la...

Brazil’s supreme court is fast heading to approve regulation (read: censorship) of social media. They had already closed X.com, Rumble, and others in the past. Court members are praising China's approach. New chapter of this story to come. ¶ Big point at the marriage retreat I taught a few days ago: The secret of a...

My father tells me that I'm still young, and that I haven't truly failed at anything yet. Though, I never told him about you. I'm sure of it: You are my first true failure. Since November of 2023, my life hasn't been the same. All because of a seating chart rearrangement. Maybe that was the closest I ever was to...

Do pianists make for better hackers ? I suck at those keyboards too, so I wouldn't know.

Over on The Linux Cast, I talk a lot about note-taking programs. It has become a bit of a meme, really. “Oh, there goes Matt again, talking about a note-taking app.” For years, Google Keep was my note-taking app of choice. Well, not choice, but the one I used because it was easy, free, and simple enough. But, I...

New anime style artwork of a woman with a cane reporting broken braille trails for a solarpunk seed library submission.

TitleThe Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel CreatorMythos Software Year1992 Kindgame Played2025-06-13