Scott Hill
Scott Hill
Scott W. Hill
I believe that one should control one’s writing and photographs, and this site is my home on the web for those things. I frequently post them other places too, but they generally start here. Other platforms are ephemeral—as evidenced by the many broken links here to things I found interesting in the past, but which weren’t cared for by their publisher—so I try not to post elsewhere, except as a copy.
Latest Posts
Paul Kafasis:Past icons weren’t just more expressive. They were also more usable. Having distinct shapes provided a useful way to tell icons apart. Tahoe eliminates that cue by forcing everything into the same squircle, leaving color as...
Rory Mir and Cliff Braun, writing for the Electronic Frontier Foundation:Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has...
As much as I dislike The Hollywood Reporter’s website due to its shocking ad load and visual shitstorm, I enjoyed this post by James Hibberd.Ainsley and I saw Supergirl (★★☆☆☆) at its fan premiere event, and the take given in the article...
I was surprised and saddened to read of Om Malik’s passing. I’ve read his thoughts on technology on his blog, and followed his photography on Glass, where he was an early supporter. I’ll miss reading and seeing his point-of-view.
Good analysis on the reported M6 Pro/Max cancellation from Jason Snell at Six Colors:
John Gruber:But as things stand today, no platform in Apple’s portfolio came out of these price increases looking worse than Apple TV. It’s especially painful to think about people buying one now, at these prices, only to have their...
Jess Weatherbed, writing at The Verge:The Cupertino company will reportedly only release a base model M6 chip “as early as this year,” with the base M7 chip set to launch sometime in the first half of 2027. The M7 Pro and M7 Max are then...
It’s interesting that the just-introduced Apple price increases don’t include iPhones. I suspect that means that price increases for iPhone will be introduced with the new models in the fall.I normally recommend that people who find...
RAMmageddon continues to rock the industry: The price increases that Tim Cook warned were coming landed today, across almost all Apple products. And boy, they’re not small increases, especially for higher-end configurations. The MacBook...
This week’s Decoder is probably my favorite episode so far. It is a really thoughtful conversation with Patreon CEO Jack Conte, discussing what’s changed for that company in the past five years. One of the really interesting bits is...
There have been articles that excerpt from the new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan all over, and this one from WIRED has a few interesting nuggets, including this infuriating one:And over dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club,...
Very cool. The site is slammed, and I haven’t been able to log in to my account because of it, but it’s certainly a nice way to celebrate the 250th.In honor of Juneteenth and the 250th anniversary of American independence, California is...
Look, I was a pretty big Commodore fan back in the day. I learned BASIC on a Commodore PET, and I owned C64s and several models of Amiga. But this? This is like some kind of fever dream.
I’ve never had any Roku devices, but if you do, it might be time to punt them.It doesn’t sound like the plan is to build Roku and Fox into a walled ecosystem, but the Roku home screen will be used to promote Fox content.
Mark Leibovich, writing at The Atlantic:As with pretty much everything involving California governance, discerning the state’s election results can devolve into a big, unruly mess. To wit, Tuesday’s primary—particularly the free-for-all...