As a kid, whenever we went to the Apple Store I'd run to the back to play the demo games on the iMacs. Now, in an absolutely crazy, full-circle moment, my own game @BlackboxPuzzles is one of those games on thousands of iPads in hundreds of Apple Stores around the world.

Calm has one of their lawyers reading their terms of service as a sleep story

Pouring one out today for the unsung marvel that is Riveo. Thanks for bringing so much joy, @marcus_eckert

“Expressiveness”? You mean “Californianess”?

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take that shit down. A landmark University of Delaware study (Frick and Tallamy, 1996) counted nearly 14,000 insects killed by residential bug zappers over a single summer. Mosquitoes were 31 of them. A mere 0.22%. The other 99.78% were moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and the night-shift pollinators your yard depends on. Mosquitoes don't navigate by light. They find you by your carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your bug zapper is invisible to them and lethal to almost everything else. Harvard Medical School's Zika page specifically warns against bug zappers because they may increase mosquito populations by killing the predators that eat them. What actually works: eliminate standing water within 100 feet of where you spend time outside. Bug zappers are 1970s technology built on a 1970s misunderstanding of mosquitoes. It's time to take it down.

When I was at Apple, I loved working on micro interactions that you see all over the OS. Now that I’m not an apple I still like to solve for these little problems that really annoyed me. In this case, I designed a backspace button with a speed controller, so by just pressing it you can delete by letter and then immediately by word as you stretch it, without having to wait (like it usually does on the OS) and then if you stretch a little more, you can speed delete through words… I’m also working on another one where you can repair the words if you over-deleted it by accident 😜 (it also has haptic feedback, which makes it really fun)

This is art

Pinching to zoom on text while keeping your reading position.

I'd like to take this moment to apologize to anyone whom I might have said "Icon Composer isn't that bad" to

The Netherlands is one of the most sci-fi places on earth The Dutch deserve a new word: hydropunk Over centuries, they have created & maintained one of the most advanced water management systems on the planet

Am I stupid?

being a fish sucks because you have your usual gallery of underwater predators and then also you have to worry about a demon from another realm appearing to kill you too

Before limited-releasing Claude Mythos Preview, we investigated its internal mechanisms with interpretability techniques. We found it exhibited notably sophisticated (and often unspoken) strategic thinking and situational awareness, at times in service of unwanted actions. (1/14)

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨 Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser... The numbers are hard to believe: > $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built > Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet > Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks. Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning. The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing: A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

I was curious about how design apps differ in their edge / corner / rotate hit areas, so I wrote a script to move my mouse in a 50x50 grid and track what the cursor was.

Fun Fact: if you don't use your Apple Pencil for over a year or so the battery can just die forever :(

A hilarious design concept for a weather app on the Apple Watch by Heramb Shet