Previously, on Daring Fireball

November 2024

Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires     24 Nov 2024

Regarding — and, Well, Against — Substack     20 Nov 2024

Dr. Oz     19 Nov 2024

Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the ‘S’ Suffix     12 Nov 2024

How It Went      8 Nov 2024

It Doesn’t End      8 Nov 2024

I Wonder      7 Nov 2024

Kottke on the Art and Power of Hypertextual Writing      5 Nov 2024

October 2024

In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement     28 Oct 2024

Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post     26 Oct 2024

Vision Pro Bites Dog     25 Oct 2024

The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings     22 Oct 2024

Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars     10 Oct 2024

September 2024

A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024     25 Sep 2024

Panels, a New Wallpaper App From Marques Brownlee     25 Sep 2024

The iPhones 16     18 Sep 2024

The Things They Carried     16 Sep 2024

The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap      8 Sep 2024

The iOS Continental Drift Widens      6 Sep 2024

August 2024

The Mac Is a Power Tool     10 Aug 2024

Apple’s Profits From Services Are on the Cusp of Surpassing Its Profits From Device Sales      5 Aug 2024

July 2024

Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News     19 Jul 2024

The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18     17 Jul 2024

It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns     14 Jul 2024

June 2024

Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted     24 Jun 2024

WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence     23 Jun 2024

Training Large Language Models on the Public Web     21 Jun 2024

By My Count Trump Is Batting .900 on the Ten Commandments     21 Jun 2024

The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty     21 Jun 2024

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024     14 Jun 2024

Gurman’s Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report      7 Jun 2024

Now Qualcomm Went Long      4 Jun 2024

May 2024

Spotify’s Car Things to Be Rebranded as Car Bricks     24 May 2024

Follow-Up on Apple No Longer Including Stickers With New Products     15 May 2024

The M4 iPad Pros     14 May 2024

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote      8 May 2024

April 2024

Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices     25 Apr 2024

Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News     21 Apr 2024

Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition     19 Apr 2024

European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model     17 Apr 2024

From the Department of Spending Tim Cook’s Money: Online Photo Storage Is Surely Expensive to Offer, but Apple Should Offer More      9 Apr 2024

March 2024

More on the EU’s Market Might     29 Mar 2024

The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue     26 Mar 2024

European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta     25 Mar 2024

My 2023 Apple Report Card     18 Mar 2024

Quickly Toggling Closed Captions on Apple TV (But Not in Netflix)     15 Mar 2024

Apple Adjusts DMA Plan to Offer Direct Downloading of Apps From the Web (With a Big Asterisk), Custom Link-Out Screens, and Marketplaces Solely for the Distribution of a Developer’s Own Apps     13 Mar 2024

Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More     11 Mar 2024

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2024 Edition      9 Mar 2024

Apple Reinstates Epic’s EU Developer Account      8 Mar 2024

Apple Terminated Epic’s EU Developer Account      6 Mar 2024

February 2024

Poll Results on Apple’s FineWoven iPhone Cases     28 Feb 2024

Apple Sports     21 Feb 2024

The European Commission Had Nothing to Do With Apple’s Reversal on Supporting RCS     16 Feb 2024

Phil Spencer Puts Apple’s Money Where His Mouth Is     15 Feb 2024

Simple Tricks and Nonsense      2 Feb 2024

January 2024

The Vision Pro     30 Jan 2024

Apple’s Plans for the DMA in the European Union     26 Jan 2024

‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’     18 Jan 2024

Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps     17 Jan 2024

Margrethe Vestager Met With Tim Cook Yesterday, But I Doubt Anything Happened     13 Jan 2024

Al Gore, Mac Nerd and Internet Pioneer     12 Jan 2024

Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals’s New Hey Calendar App      8 Jan 2024

December 2023

Beep Beep     28 Dec 2023

App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum     14 Dec 2023

iOS 17.3, Now in Beta, Includes New ‘Stolen Device Protection’ Feature     12 Dec 2023

Beeper Mini Is Back, But Without Phone Number Registration     11 Dec 2023

Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her.     10 Dec 2023

November 2023

More on Sam Altman’s Ouster From OpenAI     18 Nov 2023

Qualcomm’s Awkward Boasting Regarding Its Forthcoming X Elite Platform     18 Nov 2023

Vision Pro, Spatial Video, and Panoramic Photos     10 Nov 2023

The 2023 M3 MacBook Pros      6 Nov 2023

October 2023

The Best Leather Cases for iPhone 15 Pro     30 Oct 2023

Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services     25 Oct 2023

Apple to Broadcast ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Monday Night     24 Oct 2023

Apple and AI     23 Oct 2023

There’s a New Apple Pencil With a USB-C Port, and My Thoughts Turn to the Complexity of the Overall iPad Lineup     18 Oct 2023

Google’s Pixel 8 Launch Event      5 Oct 2023

iPhone 15 OverheatGate Seems to Be a Nothingburger      1 Oct 2023

September 2023

Craptacular Is More Like It     21 Sep 2023

The iPhones 15 Pro (and iPhones 15)     19 Sep 2023

AirPods Pro 2, Now With USB-C Charging Case     18 Sep 2023

Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event     15 Sep 2023

Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy     11 Sep 2023

The China-Apple Cold War Heats Up     10 Sep 2023

August 2023

Idle Speculation on the Widely-Assumed Switch to USB-C Ports on the Upcoming iPhones 15     29 Aug 2023

‘Changes to U.K. Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law’     23 Aug 2023

Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts     17 Aug 2023

Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree     16 Aug 2023

Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were ‘Many’ of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them     15 Aug 2023

Was Trump Using Twitter Direct Messages? (Please Let the Answer Be Yes.)     10 Aug 2023

What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower?      5 Aug 2023

Oh to Be a Fly on the Wall During the Conversation Where Elon Musk Asks Tim Cook to Help X Corp Replace iOS as the Bedrock Everything Platform      3 Aug 2023

July 2023

Nobody Uses Threads Anymore, It’s Too Crowded     31 Jul 2023

Jackasses of the Week: TechRadar (Foldable Phones Edition)     29 Jul 2023

Translation From Hostage Code to English of X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Company-Wide Memo     26 Jul 2023

Aptos, Microsoft’s New Default Font for Office Documents     21 Jul 2023

Of Course Apple Has an LLM AI in the Works, and of Course the Bloomberg Report Revealing Its Code Name Mentions How the Story Moved the Company’s Stock Price     19 Jul 2023

Nerding Out With Maestral, LaunchControl, and Keyboard Maestro     19 Jul 2023

Now Apollo Faces the Cliff      7 Jul 2023

Threads      5 Jul 2023

June 2023

Ahead of Season 1 Finale, Apple Has Made the Entire First Episode of ‘Silo’ Free — on Twitter     28 Jun 2023

FTC Sues Amazon, Claiming ‘Deceptive’ Prime Sign-Up and Cancellation Process     26 Jun 2023

More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry     20 Jun 2023

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023     10 Jun 2023

First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS      7 Jun 2023

May 2023

On Apple Fitting a Headset Announcement Into the Always-Packed WWDC Keynote     19 May 2023

Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal?     18 May 2023

Let’s Check in on Supermicro, the Target of Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’     18 May 2023

Proposed Name for GM’s Upcoming In-House Software Platform (You Know, the One That Isn’t Going to Support CarPlay): Edsel     16 May 2023

Browser and OS Market Share Trends in the Mobile Age      2 May 2023

Follow-Up on ‘Adware for Apple Services in iOS’      1 May 2023

April 2023

If You Come at the King     21 Apr 2023

Adware for Apple Services in iOS     20 Apr 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the ‘HBO’ Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service ‘Max’     12 Apr 2023

GM, CarPlay, and iPhones     10 Apr 2023

A Bit of Follow-Up on Wavelength      4 Apr 2023

The Case of the iPhone Case Poll      3 Apr 2023

March 2023

Wavelength     27 Mar 2023

It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes     21 Mar 2023

To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition     13 Mar 2023

Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter      7 Mar 2023

Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff      1 Mar 2023

February 2023

Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy Debate Warren’s Beatty’s ‘Dick Tracy’     26 Feb 2023

Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech     17 Feb 2023

My 2022 Apple Report Card     10 Feb 2023

Making Our Hearts Sing      1 Feb 2023

January 2023

Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown     31 Jan 2023

The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question     26 Jan 2023

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2023 Edition     23 Jan 2023

HomePod Lives     23 Jan 2023

App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client     19 Jan 2023

If a Tree That Was Never Announced Falls in a Forest Does It Make a Sound?     18 Jan 2023

Knee-Jerk Reactions and Thoughts Regarding The Information’s Latest Report on Apple’s Upcoming Headset      3 Jan 2023

December 2022

I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter     16 Dec 2022

If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound?     14 Dec 2022

Two Weeks Later and Twitter Is Still Up      2 Dec 2022

November 2022

Twitter Tumult     18 Nov 2022

October 2022

App Store Ads Gone Wild     31 Oct 2022

The 2022 iPad (and a Wee Note About the 2022 iPad Pros)     26 Oct 2022

The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great     21 Oct 2022

Everything      6 Oct 2022

September 2022

Apple Watch Ultra     21 Sep 2022

The iPhones 14 Pro (and iPhones 14)     15 Sep 2022

Thoughts and Observations on Last Week’s ‘Far Out’ Apple Event     13 Sep 2022

A Quick Run-Through of Rumors and Speculation Ahead of This Wednesday’s ‘Far Out’ Event for the iPhones 14, New Apple Watch Models, and Who Knows What Else      6 Sep 2022

August 2022

Facebook’s Problems     31 Aug 2022

The Financial Times on the Effects of App Tracking Transparency on Small Businesses     12 Aug 2022

Is App Tracking Transparency Actually Doing Anything Truly Significant?     11 Aug 2022

Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans      5 Aug 2022

Vin Scully      3 Aug 2022

iMessage Editing and Un-Sending in the Fourth iOS 16 and MacOS 13 Developer Betas      1 Aug 2022

July 2022

The 2022 13-Inch MacBook Air     15 Jul 2022

June 2022

The New Prohibition     28 Jun 2022

How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad     27 Jun 2022

Two New Apps I Wanted to Flag for You     23 Jun 2022

German Regulators Open Investigation Into Apple’s App Tracking Transparency     14 Jun 2022

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2022, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak     10 Jun 2022

Basic Apple Guy’s Prescient Reimagining of System Preferences on MacOS      9 Jun 2022

May 2022

Wonder Twin Powers     27 May 2022

The Grave Insult of Being Sent the Proper Tools to Perform a Complicated Task     26 May 2022

A Touching Goodbye for iPod     10 May 2022

Noted Interaction Design and Security Expert Margrethe Vestager Redesigns the iPhone’s NFC Support      4 May 2022

April 2022

More Rumors on Apple Obtaining the Rights to NFL Sunday Ticket     18 Apr 2022

30 Years of BBEdit Not Sucking     15 Apr 2022

Studio Display, One Month In     13 Apr 2022

Play Ball: Apple Announces More Details About ‘Friday Night Baseball’ on Opening Day      8 Apr 2022

Apple’s Dance With the Netherlands ACM Continues      6 Apr 2022

March 2022

The D.O.J. Goes After Google’s ‘Communicate With Care’ Program     24 Mar 2022

The Apple Studio Display     17 Mar 2022

The 2022 iPad Air     16 Mar 2022

The 2022 iPhone SE     15 Mar 2022

Twitter’s Confusing New, but Hopefully Now Abandoned, ‘Home/Latest’ Timeline     14 Mar 2022

February 2022

On the Origin of the iPhone     25 Feb 2022

My 2021 Apple Report Card     15 Feb 2022

Going Dutch      7 Feb 2022

January 2022

A Tale of Attempted Censorship in Three Acts     31 Jan 2022

An Assortment of Links and Observations Regarding the Neil Young –Joe Rogan Spotify Saga     29 Jan 2022

Leaker Sinks Peloton Stock With Confidential Information     21 Jan 2022

Follow-Up on Yesterday’s 1Password Item     20 Jan 2022

A Five-Letter Word for ‘Rip-Off’     18 Jan 2022

Seeing Green     14 Jan 2022

The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake     11 Jan 2022

The Algorithmic Ad Monster Cometh for Podcasts      6 Jan 2022

December 2021

Appeals Court Grants Apple a Delay on Injunction Mandating Changes to App Store in Epic Case      8 Dec 2021

November 2021

Tim Sweeney Says the Quiet Part Out Loud     24 Nov 2021

A Few Follow-Up Points on Apple’s Self Service Repair Program     18 Nov 2021

Apple’s New Self Service Repair Program     17 Nov 2021

Craig Federighi’s Sideloading Keynote at Web Summit     16 Nov 2021

October 2021

The 2021 14-Inch MacBook Pro     25 Oct 2021

Last-Minutes Guesses for Today’s ‘Unleashed’ Event     18 Oct 2021

Apple Watch Series 7     13 Oct 2021

The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’      1 Oct 2021

September 2021

Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning?     27 Sep 2021

Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account, but Epic’s Other Developer Accounts Remain Active     22 Sep 2021

The 2021 iPad Mini     22 Sep 2021

The iPhones 13     21 Sep 2021

Various Single-Paragraph Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s ‘California Streaming’ Apple Event for the iPhones 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and New iPads     15 Sep 2021

Why iPhone Names Have Numbers and Most Other Apple Product Names Don’t      9 Sep 2021

Initial Details on Using Driver’s Licenses and State ID’s in Apple Wallet      1 Sep 2021

August 2021

Let’s Consider Some of the Implications of Third-Party Payment Processing for In-App Purchasing on iOS and Android     31 Aug 2021

Charlie Watts     28 Aug 2021

Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope      6 Aug 2021

July 2021

Document Proxy Icons in MacOS 11 and 12 as a — Ahem — Proxy for Apple’s Current UI Design Sensibilities     19 Jul 2021

If You Guys Are Really Us, What Number Are We Thinking Of?     13 Jul 2021

Regarding the Safari 15 Public Betas for Mac and iOS      2 Jul 2021

June 2021

Annotating Apple’s Anti-Sideloading White Paper     23 Jun 2021

The New York Times: ‘Sundar Pichai Faces Internal Criticism at Google’     21 Jun 2021

The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak     11 Jun 2021

App Store: The Schiller Cut      7 Jun 2021

‘Secure Intent’ on Apple Devices      2 Jun 2021

May 2021

The New Siri Remote (and Updated Apple TV 4K)     20 May 2021

The 2021 M1 iPad Pros     19 May 2021

The 24-Inch M1 iMac     18 May 2021

New York Times Report on Apple’s iCloud ‘Hard Bargain’ in China     17 May 2021

70/30 Is Fine for Me, but Not for Thee      7 May 2021

Apple and the Built-In Advantage      4 May 2021

April 2021

Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Apple Event     23 Apr 2021

Et tu, Procter & Gamble?      9 Apr 2021

Actually, Two of the Third-Party ‘Find My’ Products Announced Yesterday Are Months Away From Availability      8 Apr 2021

In Russia, iPhone Apps Install You      2 Apr 2021

March 2021

Apple Holds Up ProtonVPN App Update for Two Days Over the Phrase ‘Challenging Governments’     23 Mar 2021

Going Longer on Intel’s Ad Spat With the Mac     18 Mar 2021

Intel Goes Long     17 Mar 2021

How to Enable ‘Your Watch Is Fully Charged’ Notifications in WatchOS 7 and iOS 14      8 Mar 2021

iA Writer      5 Mar 2021

Apple’s App Store Privacy Nutrition Labels Depend on the Honor Policy, and, Surprising No One, Some Developers Are Dishonest      4 Mar 2021

Google’s Outsized Share of Advertising Money      4 Mar 2021

Adoption Is Low for COVID-19 Exposure Apps, Rendering Them Effectively Useless      3 Mar 2021

February 2021

Apple Mail and Hidden Tracking Images     24 Feb 2021

How ‘Unlock With Apple Watch’ While Wearing a Face Mask Works in iOS 14.5     21 Feb 2021

Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess on Apple’s Purported Interest in Making Cars     16 Feb 2021

The Two-Day Saga of the Apple Silicon DTK Exchange Program     11 Feb 2021

2020 Quote of the Year: ‘What’s the Downside for Humoring Him?’      2 Feb 2021

January 2021

My 2020 Apple Report Card     30 Jan 2021

Mac Mini Power Consumption and Thermal Output Specs     27 Jan 2021

Gus Mueller and Ken Kocienda on Brad Cox and Objective‑C     25 Jan 2021

Incoming CEO of a Sand-Polishing Company in Oregon Makes Curious Remark     21 Jan 2021

December 2020

Charger Nerdery     31 Dec 2020

Facebook’s Unknowable Megascale     29 Dec 2020

Facebook: Free as in Bullshit     18 Dec 2020

Facebook Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple’s Changes Strengthening iOS Privacy     16 Dec 2020

I Suppose a Roman à Clef About a Design-Obsessed California Computer Maker With a Charismatic but Mercurial Founder Whose Youthful Arrogance Leads to His Ignominious Ouster and Exile, Only to Return a Decade Later to Not Only Save the Company From Seemingly Certain Ruin but Lead Them to Theretofore Unimaginable Triumph and Renown, Is Off the Table Too     15 Dec 2020

Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max     10 Dec 2020

M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness      2 Dec 2020

November 2020

The M1 Macs     17 Nov 2020

The HomePod Mini     13 Nov 2020

One More Thing: The M1 Macs     11 Nov 2020

The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max      9 Nov 2020

Sketch, and the Joy of Mac-App Mac Apps      9 Nov 2020

The Daring Fireball Election Desk Is Calling It: Biden Wins      4 Nov 2020

Disclosing a Few Thoughts on Facebook’s UI Design      2 Nov 2020

October 2020

Sean Connery     31 Oct 2020

The 2020 iPad Air     22 Oct 2020

The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro     20 Oct 2020

Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Hi, Speed’ iPhone 12 Event     16 Oct 2020

Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ With ‘Inconvenience’     14 Oct 2020

Translation From Adorable Bullshit to English of Microsoft’s ‘10 Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows’     11 Oct 2020

Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer      9 Oct 2020

September 2020

‎Widgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad     26 Sep 2020

More Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing     23 Sep 2020

Adventures in Solo Loop Sizing     22 Sep 2020

Apple Watch Series 6: Graphite Is the New Black     17 Sep 2020

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Time Flies’ Apple Event     15 Sep 2020

Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards     14 Sep 2020

Apple Announces Virtual ‘Time Flies’ Event Next Tuesday      8 Sep 2020

Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy      3 Sep 2020

August 2020

On TikTok as a Security Threat     18 Aug 2020

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney’s Hand-Waving Explanation for How Game Consoles Deserve 30 Percent of Fortnite Revenue but Apple and Google’s App Stores Do Not     17 Aug 2020

Thoughts on an ‘Apple One’ Subscription Bundle     14 Aug 2020

Epic Goes to War With Apple Over the App Store     13 Aug 2020

Dithering Preview     10 Aug 2020

Decoding Apple’s Statement to Business Insider Regarding Xbox Game Pass      7 Aug 2020

July 2020

Trump Floats Delaying Election     30 Jul 2020

Parsing Tim Cook’s Opening Statement From Today’s Congressional Antitrust Hearing     29 Jul 2020

Good Sudoku by Zach Gage     23 Jul 2020

Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys     20 Jul 2020

Refer This     13 Jul 2020

A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison d’Etre for the App Store      9 Jul 2020

A Bit of Self-Served Claim Chowder Regarding iMessage and Phone Numbers as Identifiers      7 Jul 2020

How We Shot The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020      6 Jul 2020

June 2020

Working the Refs Worked: ‘How Facebook Wrote Its Rules to Accommodate Trump’     29 Jun 2020

The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak     24 Jun 2020

Sponsorship Openings and The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020     19 Jun 2020

The Flimsiness of ‘Business vs. Consumer’ as a Justification for Apple’s Rejection of Hey From the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases     16 Jun 2020

On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month      9 Jun 2020

May 2020

Translation From VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz’s Statement That He’s ‘Stepping Down’     29 May 2020

‘What Time Is It in London?’     22 May 2020

No Mask, No Dice     21 May 2020

Department of Justice Reopens Spat With Apple Over iPhone Encryption     19 May 2020

A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project     15 May 2020

More on Dithering     14 May 2020

Bloomberg Publishes Clickbait in Break From Rivals     13 May 2020

Let’s Check In on the State of iPhone and Android CPU Performance     11 May 2020

Dithering      7 May 2020

April 2020

The 2020 iPhone SE     22 Apr 2020

The iPad Magic Keyboard     20 Apr 2020

The Quadrennial iPhone SE Schedule     16 Apr 2020

COBOL, Programming, and Coding     14 Apr 2020

Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions      2 Apr 2020

March 2020

Regarding Zoom     30 Mar 2020

Curse Words     28 Mar 2020

The 2020 iPad Pros     24 Mar 2020

The 2020 MacBook Air     20 Mar 2020

Super Wednesday     18 Mar 2020

February 2020

Tot     27 Feb 2020

What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct     25 Feb 2020

Locations of Media Files in MacOS 10.15 Catalina     24 Feb 2020

The DF Tootbot Is Once Again Fully Operational      6 Feb 2020

My 2019 Apple Report Card      5 Feb 2020

January 2020

It’s Not About Intuitiveness     30 Jan 2020

The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10     27 Jan 2020

Hacked to Bits     26 Jan 2020

Regarding Reuters’s Report That Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting iCloud Backups     21 Jan 2020

Quit Confirmation for Safari on MacOS     10 Jan 2020

Front and Center      9 Jan 2020

The Concept Electronics Show      8 Jan 2020

David Ruddock on the State of Chrome OS      4 Jan 2020

December 2019

Catalyst, Two Months In     19 Dec 2019

Bluesky: Twitter Announces Effort to Build ‘Decentralized Standard for Social Media’     11 Dec 2019

The Other Shoe Drops: Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement      9 Dec 2019

November 2019

Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot in Mac Pro Plant in Austin     21 Nov 2019

L’Affaire Vaperware     20 Nov 2019

16-Inch MacBook Pro First Impressions: Great Keyboard, Outstanding Speakers     13 Nov 2019

Getting Started With Apple TV+ Is Easy and Obvious and Only the Very Last Step, Which Isn’t Related to the Apple TV+ Signup Process in Particular, Made Me Want to Throw My iPhone Against a Wall      1 Nov 2019

October 2019

AirPods Pro First Impressions     29 Oct 2019

The Curious Design of Mail’s Message Action Toolbar in iOS 13     25 Oct 2019

Idle Speculation on Whether Apple Is Going to Hold Another Keynote Event This Year     22 Oct 2019

On the Upcoming Photoshop for iPad     21 Oct 2019

Gurman on Catalyst’s Shaky Debut     11 Oct 2019

Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in ‘Richard Stallman’s Disgrace’      7 Oct 2019

Apple and Hong Kong      4 Oct 2019

Turns Out the Telephoto Camera on the iPhone 11 Pro Does Not Support Night Mode      1 Oct 2019

September 2019

Richard Stallman’s Disgrace     27 Sep 2019

iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk     26 Sep 2019

iPhones 11 and Apple Watch Series 5 Q&A     20 Sep 2019

‘You Could Always Just Use Flash’     19 Sep 2019

Apple Watch Series 5     18 Sep 2019

The iPhone 11 and iPhones 11 Pro     17 Sep 2019

Let’s Go Further and Hope for Every Last Drop of Joy to Be Drained From the World     16 Sep 2019

About That Washington Post Story on Apple Copying Features From Top Apps in the App Store     13 Sep 2019

Malice or Incompetence: On the Rankings of Apple’s Own Apps in App Store Results     12 Sep 2019

‘It’s Over. It’s Over for Apple.’     12 Sep 2019

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s Apple Event, Roughly, if Not in Fact Exactly, in the Order in Which They Were Announced     11 Sep 2019

Going Pro      4 Sep 2019

August 2019

Apple Addresses Siri Privacy Protections     28 Aug 2019

Siri, Privacy, and Trust     16 Aug 2019

July 2019

Superhuman and Email Privacy     23 Jul 2019

Apple Is Sending Out Another Silent Update To Fix the Webcam Flaw in Zoom’s Partner Apps     16 Jul 2019

On Bill Gates’s ‘Greatest Mistake Ever’     15 Jul 2019

On the Post-Ive Future of Design at Apple      3 Jul 2019

June 2019

Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple     27 Jun 2019

The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak      5 Jun 2019

May 2019

An iOS 13 Wish: A Return of Vibrant Tapdown States     24 May 2019

Playdate     22 May 2019

Some Good Old-Fashioned Speed Bumps for the MacBook Pro Lineup, and a Tweak to the Butterfly Key Mechanism     21 May 2019

Bloomberg Shits the Bed Again on Cybersecurity     16 May 2019

April 2019

All Podcasts Are Shows; Not All Shows Are Podcasts     25 Apr 2019

The Drumbeat of Impeachment     24 Apr 2019

Know When to Fold ’Em     23 Apr 2019

Why Apple Settled With Qualcomm     17 Apr 2019

Disney+ Details: $7/Month, No Commercials, Tons of Old and New Content     11 Apr 2019

Bad UI: MacOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes      3 Apr 2019

March 2019

Very Brief Thoughts and Observations on Today’s ‘Show Time’ Apple Event     25 Mar 2019

Apple Games     24 Mar 2019

The New iPad Mini     21 Mar 2019

Apple Releases New A12-Based iPad Air and iPad Mini     18 Mar 2019

On Spotify’s Complaints About the App Store     15 Mar 2019

Life as a Facebook Moderator      1 Mar 2019

February 2019

Brief Thoughts and Observations on Samsung’s Unpacked Event     20 Feb 2019

My 2018 Apple Report Card     15 Feb 2019

On Covering Webcams      8 Feb 2019

January 2019

25 Years Ago: RAM Doubler     28 Jan 2019

The R-Word     18 Jan 2019

Pentagram’s ‘Range of Possibilities’ for Slack     16 Jan 2019

On Getting Started With Regular Expressions     11 Jan 2019

Codea’s iOS Menu Bar     10 Jan 2019

On Netflix Pulling Out of iTunes Billing for New Users      3 Jan 2019

Steve Jobs and Apple’s Last Previous Earnings Warning      2 Jan 2019

Apple’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Earnings Warning      2 Jan 2019

December 2018

Opening New Tabs Next to the Current Tab in Safari     11 Dec 2018

Electron and the Decline of Native Apps      7 Dec 2018

The World’s Shortest Review of Apple’s $40 iPhone XR Clear Case      6 Dec 2018

Proof That iOS Still Hasn’t Gotten Undo Right      5 Dec 2018

November 2018

An Alternative Theory on Purportedly Weak iPhone XR Demand     26 Nov 2018

Third-Party USB-C to Lightning Cables Might Come in Mid-2019 (Which Is Good, Because I Still Don’t Think iPhone Is Ever Going to Switch to USB-C)     15 Nov 2018

Apple’s Q4 2018 Results      6 Nov 2018

The 2018 Retina MacBook Air      6 Nov 2018

The 2018 iPad Pros      5 Nov 2018

October 2018

iPhone XR Review Roundup     26 Oct 2018

The iPhone XR     23 Oct 2018

Sometimes It’s Better to Just Start Over With iCloud Photo Library Syncing     12 Oct 2018

Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’      4 Oct 2018

September 2018

The Great DF Random Slowdown Should Be Over     20 Sep 2018

Apple Watch Series 4     19 Sep 2018

The iPhones XS     18 Sep 2018

Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s iPhone XS/XR and Series 4 Apple Watch Introductory Event     15 Sep 2018

The Curious Case of Adware Doctor and the Mac App Store      7 Sep 2018

iPhone Naming Rumors, 2018 Edition      5 Sep 2018

August 2018

On ‘Shake to Undo’     23 Aug 2018

Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing     22 Aug 2018

Twitter Addresses Why They’ve Broken Twitter for Third-Party Clients     16 Aug 2018

Reuters’s Curious Sourcing on Doug Field Joining Project Titan     10 Aug 2018

Doug Field Returns to Apple After Leaving Tesla      9 Aug 2018

July 2018

Apple Updates MacBook Pro Models With Touch Bar     12 Jul 2018

June 2018

Google Demos Duplex     27 Jun 2018

May 2018

10 Strikes and You’re Out — the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should     31 May 2018

Yammering on One More Time Regarding Google’s Duplex Recordings     22 May 2018

The Restaurant Where Google Claims to Have Booked an Actual Meal Via Duplex     17 May 2018

The End of Third-Party Twitter Clients?     16 May 2018

Lobe      2 May 2018

April 2018

Scuttlebutt Regarding Apple’s Cross-Platform UI Project     30 Apr 2018

Design Plagiarism     17 Apr 2018

On Normalizing Rip-Offs     17 Apr 2018

Company-Wide Apple Memo on ‘The Impact of Leaks’ Leaks     13 Apr 2018

Regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s Unused Talking Points on Tim Cook and Apple     11 Apr 2018

A Really Dumb Wall Street Journal Story on Apple Pay That Almost Makes a Good Point at the Very Beginning      3 Apr 2018

Users and Customers      2 Apr 2018

March 2018

Why Hasn’t Samsung Ditched the Headphone Jack Yet?     14 Mar 2018

Open and Shut, Revisited      2 Mar 2018

Max Krieger’s Twitter Threads on Design      1 Mar 2018

February 2018

iOS Messages and Smart Punctuation     20 Feb 2018

Sponsoring Daring Fireball, Early 2018 Edition     14 Feb 2018

The Threat to the Mac: The Growing Popularity of Non-Native Apps     12 Feb 2018

HomePod      6 Feb 2018

January 2018

HomePod’s Priorities     26 Jan 2018

Apple Previews iOS 11.3     25 Jan 2018

The Scourge of Clickbait     23 Jan 2018

On Rumors of the iPhone X Being Produced for Only One Year     22 Jan 2018

Dean Allen     18 Jan 2018

ScreenShield — a Third-Party SDK That Somehow Allows iOS Apps to Prevent Screenshots     10 Jan 2018

December 2017

Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X     28 Dec 2017

Apple Responds to Controversy on iPhone Batteries and Performance     28 Dec 2017

The iPhone X     26 Dec 2017

Marzipan     23 Dec 2017

Apple Addresses Why Some iPhones With Older Batteries Are Benchmarking Slower     20 Dec 2017

First Impressions of the New iMac Pro     14 Dec 2017

November 2017

High Sierra Root Login Bug Was Mentioned on Apple’s Support Forums Two Weeks Ago     29 Nov 2017

Twitter’s 280-Character Own Goal      9 Nov 2017

October 2017

iPhone X Review Roundup     31 Oct 2017

Face ID FUD     25 Oct 2017

September 2017

Cultural Insularity and Apple TV     28 Sep 2017

iPhone X Supply Is Going to Be Tight     27 Sep 2017

Google and Levi’s ‘Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard’     25 Sep 2017

Thoughts on Apple TV 4K     21 Sep 2017

Apple Watch Series 3     20 Sep 2017

The iPhones 8     19 Sep 2017

Thoughts and Observations on the Products Announced at This Week’s iPhone X Introductory Event     14 Sep 2017

Welcome to the Steve Jobs Theater     13 Sep 2017

X Man     12 Sep 2017

Serfing on the Giants’ Farms      1 Sep 2017

August 2017

Wading Through AccuWeather’s Bullshit Response     23 Aug 2017

Some Comments Regarding The New York Times’s Report on Apple’s Titan Project     22 Aug 2017

Daring Fireball Turns 15     18 Aug 2017

Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs     10 Aug 2017

Conjecture Regarding the Precise Details of the iPhone D22 Display Resolution      5 Aug 2017

July 2017

On Apple Removing VPN Apps From the App Store in China     31 Jul 2017

Unordered Lists in Markdown     26 Jul 2017

Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS     19 Jul 2017

iPhone Prelude     18 Jul 2017

iPhone Silly Season     13 Jul 2017

New on Daring Fireball: Display Ads     12 Jul 2017

Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones      7 Jul 2017

June 2017

Perfect Ten     29 Jun 2017

Munster’s Model     29 Jun 2017

‘Your’ vs. ‘My’     28 Jun 2017

‘Inferior to a Laptop in Almost Every Way, Unless You Like to Draw’     27 Jun 2017

Medium and the Scourge of Persistent Sharing Dickbars     19 Jun 2017

iPad Pro Review Roundup     13 Jun 2017

The Knives Come Out for Phil Schiller in Brian Merchant’s ‘The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone’     13 Jun 2017

The 2017 iPad Pros     12 Jun 2017

In-App Purchase Scams in the App Store     10 Jun 2017

Update on The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2017      2 Jun 2017

Fuck Facebook      1 Jun 2017

May 2017

When the Scoops Run Dry     31 May 2017

What If the iPad Smart Keyboard Had a Trackpad?     31 May 2017

Halide     30 May 2017

Safari vs. Chrome on the Mac     24 May 2017

‘The Spy Who Loved Me’     23 May 2017

Dropping Tech Giants     12 May 2017

Apple’s China Problem: WeChat      5 May 2017

April 2017

Judging Apple Watch’s Success     24 Apr 2017

On Uber’s ‘Identifying and Tagging’ of iPhones     23 Apr 2017

The Swiss Watch Industry Should Double Down on Mechanical Watches     10 Apr 2017

‘So-Called’      6 Apr 2017

The Mac Pro Lives      4 Apr 2017

March 2017

The Deck, Adieu     29 Mar 2017

Sometimes It Really Is the Cover-Up     28 Mar 2017

About That Purported 10.5-Inch iPad     20 Mar 2017

February 2017

On Today’s Curious Wall Street Journal Report Claiming the Next iPhone Will Replace Lightning Port With USB-C     28 Feb 2017

The World’s Worst Cocktail: The Alexa Martini     20 Feb 2017

Apple Moves WWDC Back to San Jose     16 Feb 2017

Investment Bankers Urge Apple to Spend Money Hiring Investment Bankers, News at 11     15 Feb 2017

On Apple’s Capital Return Program      9 Feb 2017

Comparing the First Seven Years of the iPad and Mac      7 Feb 2017

January 2017

Additional Details on the New App Store Review Features     24 Jan 2017

On the Likelihood of Losing Your AirPods     24 Jan 2017

Apple’s Continuing Need for Worthy Rivals     20 Jan 2017

The Right Way to Pop Your AirPods Out of the Case     11 Jan 2017

On Chuq Von Rospach’s ‘Apple’s 2016 in Review’, and the AirPort and Mac Pro Lineups in Particular      3 Jan 2017

Craig Hockenberry’s ‘Making Sense of Color Management’      2 Jan 2017

December 2016

Regarding Uber’s New ‘Always’ Location Tracking     19 Dec 2016

November 2016

On Jony Ive’s Role at Apple     22 Nov 2016

The New Touch-Bar-Equipped MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac     14 Nov 2016

October 2016

On Hiding vs. Encapsulating Complexity, in the Context of Twitter’s Experimental Reply Interface     28 Oct 2016

On iMessage’s Stickiness     24 Oct 2016

Why Do Websites Publish AMP Pages?     21 Oct 2016

Don’t Hold Your Breath for an iPhone Edition     20 Oct 2016

Walt Mossberg: ‘Why Does Siri Seem So Dumb?’     12 Oct 2016

Apple Responds to Dash Controversy     10 Oct 2016

September 2016

Design as Branding     20 Sep 2016

Why A-Series Benchmark Scores Matter     15 Sep 2016

All Work and No Headphone Jack Makes Nilay a Dull Boy     15 Sep 2016

Apple Watch Series 2 and WatchOS 3     14 Sep 2016

The iPhones 7     13 Sep 2016

Melanie Ehrenkranz and Apple’s Response to Her Criticism Over the Paucity of Women Onstage at Last Week’s Event     12 Sep 2016

Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s iPhone 7 / Apple Watch Series 2 Special Event     10 Sep 2016

‘Courage’      9 Sep 2016

iPhone 7: Jet Black vs. Black      9 Sep 2016

August 2016

Vesper, Adieu     23 Aug 2016

Bloomberg’s Report on Apple Watch 2     21 Aug 2016

Is Donald Trump Actually Trying to Win?     18 Aug 2016

Uber to Begin Testing Self-Driving Cars in Pittsburgh     18 Aug 2016

Apple and the Pistol Emoji      4 Aug 2016

July 2016

Jack Off     29 Jul 2016

June 2016

Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives     21 Jun 2016

Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s WWDC 2016 Keynote     13 Jun 2016

App Store Subscription Uncertainty      8 Jun 2016

The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads      8 Jun 2016

Headlines Matter      6 Jun 2016

May 2016

Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Freedom of Speech     25 May 2016

Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of MCX CEO Brian Mooney’s Statement on the Future of CurrentC     16 May 2016

Gboard     12 May 2016

Instagram’s New Look     11 May 2016

Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and Marketing      4 May 2016

April 2016

Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Drop in iPhone Sales     27 Apr 2016

The App Store and Retail Co-op     21 Apr 2016

March 2016

The iPhone SE     31 Mar 2016

Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s ‘Loop You In’ Apple Event     21 Mar 2016

February 2016

On the San Bernardino Suspect’s Apple ID Password Reset     21 Feb 2016

Apple’s App Problem      3 Feb 2016

January 2016

Why Apple Assembles in China     20 Jan 2016

December 2015

The Curious Case of the Curious Case     11 Dec 2015

November 2015

What Goes Up     13 Nov 2015

The iPad Pro     11 Nov 2015

September 2015

The iPhones 6S     22 Sep 2015

How to Turn iOS 9’s Keyboard Back to All Caps     18 Sep 2015

De Facto Veto Power     18 Sep 2015

Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event      9 Sep 2015

Prelude to Tomorrow’s ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event in San Francisco      8 Sep 2015

August 2015

‘It May Seem Silly’     22 Aug 2015

‘Which Is the Most Important Device You Use to Connect to the Internet?’      6 Aug 2015

July 2015

Safari Content Blocker, Before and After      8 Jul 2015

May 2015

On Jony Ive’s Promotion to Chief Design Officer     27 May 2015

On the Apple Watch Interaction Model and the Digital Crown     21 May 2015

Facebook Introduces Instant Articles     13 May 2015

On the Long-Term Viability of Apple’s Customer-First Strategy      8 May 2015

April 2015

Watch, Apple Watch     30 Apr 2015

Android Wear’s Low-Power Ambient Mode     22 Apr 2015

Custom Watch Faces     20 Apr 2015

The Apple Watch      8 Apr 2015

Reach for the Sky, Pando      6 Apr 2015

March 2015

The H-Word     25 Mar 2015

Apple Watch Prelude      7 Mar 2015

February 2015

On the Pricing of Apple Watch     20 Feb 2015

The Artful Dodge     18 Feb 2015

Thinking About the Split in Apple Watch Sales by Model     17 Feb 2015

60 Frames Per Second and the Web     15 Feb 2015

Dazzling Results      4 Feb 2015

January 2015

On Jeff Williams and Apple’s Executive Team     29 Jan 2015

Siri Improvements     13 Jan 2015

Apple and Eras of Flux      9 Jan 2015

On Charging the Purported USB-Only MacBook      8 Jan 2015

December 2014

Yahoo’s Decline     17 Dec 2014

Tortured Logic     16 Dec 2014

Mozilla, Way Late to the Game, Finally Decides to Bring Firefox to iOS      4 Dec 2014

November 2014

iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus Split Among Daring Fireball Readers     18 Nov 2014

Native Apps Are Part of the Web     17 Nov 2014

Google’s App Aesthetic      3 Nov 2014

October 2014

Retailers Are Disabling NFC to Block Apple Pay     25 Oct 2014

The iPad Air 2 (And a Few Cursory Words Regarding the iPad Mini 3)     21 Oct 2014

Note to Self: It’s the Storage Space, Stupid      8 Oct 2014

September 2014

Now Batting for the Yankees, Number 2     26 Sep 2014

On Switching and Lock-In     18 Sep 2014

The iPhones 6     17 Sep 2014

Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations     16 Sep 2014

Prelude to Tomorrow’s Big-Ass iPhone Apple Event      8 Sep 2014

Security Trade-Offs      3 Sep 2014

August 2014

Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays     22 Aug 2014

July 2014

Two Memos     18 Jul 2014

June 2014

Only Apple     13 Jun 2014

WWDC 2014 Prelude      1 Jun 2014

May 2014

Some Tweaks to the @daringfireball Twitter Account     16 May 2014

Titles      8 May 2014

Katie Cotton      7 May 2014

April 2014

The Nocera Chronicles     15 Apr 2014

No One Said Following Is Easy     14 Apr 2014

Rethinking What We Mean by ‘Mobile Web’      8 Apr 2014

March 2014

Wouldn’t Have Happened If Tim Cook Had Been in Charge     27 Mar 2014

The Truthiness of Apple’s Decline     18 Mar 2014

The Ecosystem Chess Game     14 Mar 2014

February 2014

From the Department of Fitting Facts to the Narrative     28 Feb 2014

Working Backwards to the Technology     25 Feb 2014

Just Do Something     24 Feb 2014

On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to the NSA’s PRISM Program     22 Feb 2014

Microsoft, Past and Future      4 Feb 2014

January 2014

That’s No Lemonade. That’s a Space Station.     30 Jan 2014

Special     29 Jan 2014

On Google’s Acquisition of Nest     13 Jan 2014

December 2013

Thoughts on Google Glass     30 Dec 2013

2013: The Year in Apple and Technology at Large     27 Dec 2013

Lightning, the Epitome of Apple      4 Dec 2013

November 2013

The Retina iPad Mini     15 Nov 2013

Rockstar, Patent-Holding Firm Partially Owned by Apple and Microsoft, Sues Google and Android Handset Makers      1 Nov 2013

October 2013

The iPad Air     29 Oct 2013

Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s Apple Event Introducing the iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini     26 Oct 2013

iMessage End-to-End Encryption: We Have to Take Apple’s Word for It     19 Oct 2013

Apple and China     15 Oct 2013

Design Quality and Customer Delight as Sustainable Advantages      9 Oct 2013

Apple’s Stock Price After Product Announcements      4 Oct 2013

September 2013

Vesper: What’s New and What’s Next     27 Sep 2013

The iPhone 5S and 5C     17 Sep 2013

Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction     10 Sep 2013

More on Nintendo and Handheld Gaming      6 Sep 2013

Nintendo in Motion      1 Sep 2013

August 2013

The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone     13 Aug 2013

July 2013

Fitting the Facts to the Narrative     31 Jul 2013

‘Everybody Loves Bob’     29 Jul 2013

June 2013

It’s Been a While Since I’ve Done the Thing Where I Quote the Entirety (or Nearly So) of an Article and Then Dissect/Comment Upon It Line-by-Line, but I Do Still Have a Taste for It, Even Though in This Particular Case It’s a Month Late     20 Jun 2013

‘This Is Our Signature’: iOS 7     10 Jun 2013

WWDC 2013 Expectations      9 Jun 2013

May 2013

All the Mashed Potatoes     16 May 2013

Google Versus     15 May 2013

Facebook Home and Dogfooding     14 May 2013

April 2013

Web Apps vs. Native Apps Is Still a Thing     30 Apr 2013

If Not for Android, Where Would the iPhone Be?     29 Apr 2013

Pricing and Profit Consistency and the Halo Effect     17 Apr 2013

March 2013

Everything Else     19 Mar 2013

Ceding the Crown     15 Mar 2013

Open and Shut      1 Mar 2013

February 2013

When All You Have Is an ‘Apple Is Doomed Without Steve Jobs’ Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail     27 Feb 2013

The Rise of Bounding Asterisks in Lieu of Italicization for Styling Text      6 Feb 2013

The C Word      5 Feb 2013

January 2013

It’s Earnings Day, So Everyone Needs to Squeeze the Last Bit of Jackassery From Last Quarter’s Tube of AAPL Paste     23 Jan 2013

The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design     18 Jan 2013

How to Create Retina-Caliber Favicons      4 Jan 2013

December 2012

A Big Misunderstanding     20 Dec 2012

Google Maps for iPhone     13 Dec 2012

Why ‘The Daily’ Failed      3 Dec 2012

November 2012

Miscellaneous Thoughts and Observations on iTunes 11     29 Nov 2012

Best Dell Ad Ever     13 Nov 2012

Seriously, Apple Is Doomed      9 Nov 2012

October 2012

The iPad Mini     30 Oct 2012

Forstall Out; Ive Up     29 Oct 2012

Thoughts on the Display, Price, and Name of the Impending Smaller iPad     18 Oct 2012

Kindle Paperwhite     10 Oct 2012

Snappli and Claims of iOS Maps App Usage Plummeting      1 Oct 2012

September 2012

On the Timing of Apple’s Map Switch     26 Sep 2012

Get the Fainting Chair     26 Sep 2012

The iPhone 5     18 Sep 2012

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s iPhone 5 and Music Event     13 Sep 2012

Amazon’s Play     11 Sep 2012

Homage vs. Rip-Off      5 Sep 2012

August 2012

Sharing the Stage     23 Aug 2012

Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher     14 Aug 2012

Pixel Perfect     13 Aug 2012

July 2012

Inspired by Sony     31 Jul 2012

Mountain Lion     25 Jul 2012

Let’s Try to Think This iPad Mini Thing All the Way Through      9 Jul 2012

The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In      2 Jul 2012

June 2012

Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place     20 Jun 2012

Three Takeaways From Today’s WWDC Keynote     11 Jun 2012

May 2012

Let’s Have Some Fun Reading Way Too Much Into the Preliminary Schedule for WWDC 2012     30 May 2012

A Few Words About The Talk Show     29 May 2012

More on Apple’s Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store     24 May 2012

How Apple Could Play the Bigger-Display iPhone Thing at WWDC, Which I Swear, I’m Still Not Convinced Is for Real But We’re Getting to the Point Where There’s an Awful Lot of Smoke for There Not to Be a Fire So Let’s Run With It     23 May 2012

iOS Low-Hanging Fruit     11 May 2012

Connect the Dots      7 May 2012

April 2012

Putting iPad Sales in Context     25 Apr 2012

Flashback and the E-Word      9 Apr 2012

Apple’s Highest Priority Is Obviousness      5 Apr 2012

March 2012

Separating the Baby From the Bath Water     20 Mar 2012

iPad (3)     14 Mar 2012

Only Apple      8 Mar 2012

February 2012

Cookies and Privacy     24 Feb 2012

Mountain Lion     16 Feb 2012

Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’     14 Feb 2012

The ‘Apple Should Be Worried If Anyone Else Has Any Success Whatsoever’ School of Thought     10 Feb 2012

January 2012

I’ma Set It Straight, This Watergate     24 Jan 2012

On the Proprietary Nature of the iBooks Author File Format     20 Jan 2012

Regarding the Scope of Apple’s Education Initiative     18 Jan 2012

Why Are Android Smartphones Bigger Than the iPhone?     17 Jan 2012

On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch     13 Jan 2012

The Church of Market Share      9 Jan 2012

Spaghetti Against the Wall      6 Jan 2012

You Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking      4 Jan 2012

December 2011

Seeing It     31 Dec 2011

Merry     25 Dec 2011

The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)      8 Dec 2011

Rootkit, Eh?      1 Dec 2011

Translation From Corporate Jargon Doublespeak to English of Carrier IQ’s ‘Media Alert’       1 Dec 2011

November 2011

Fun With Numbers     23 Nov 2011

Getting Steve Jobs Wrong     18 Nov 2011

The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos      1 Nov 2011

October 2011

Apps Are the New Channels     28 Oct 2011

The Just-Buy-Our-Devices Model     25 Oct 2011

Font Hipsters     19 Oct 2011

The iPhone 4S     12 Oct 2011

Thoughts and Observations Regarding This Week’s iPhone 4S Event, Written Almost Entirely Before Wednesday’s Sad News, But Which the Time Has Come to Publish Because Life Goes On      7 Oct 2011

Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot      6 Oct 2011

September 2011

Teardrop Skepticism     30 Sep 2011

Not So Fast on That ‘Samsung Official’     30 Sep 2011

Amazon’s New Kindles     28 Sep 2011

The Fall Event     21 Sep 2011

The Case for Going Metro-Only on ARM     20 Sep 2011

Metro     14 Sep 2011

All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on Where He Was. What He Was Doing.     13 Sep 2011

Winning     12 Sep 2011

The New Apple Advantage      9 Sep 2011

Compromise      1 Sep 2011

August 2011

Resigned     24 Aug 2011

A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm and Is Getting Out of the PC Business     21 Aug 2011

Claim Chowder: Anders Bylund     18 Aug 2011

Balls     15 Aug 2011

More on Google and Patents      5 Aug 2011

Google: Patently Absurd      3 Aug 2011

July 2011

On Succeeding Steve Jobs     22 Jul 2011

The iPad’s Dominance of the Tablet Market     21 Jul 2011

Doesn’t Sound ‘Sober’ to Me     13 Jul 2011

On Attribution and Credit      1 Jul 2011

June 2011

On the N9 and MeeGo     23 Jun 2011

The Final Cut Pro X Backlash     22 Jun 2011

It’s All Software     14 Jun 2011

Demoted      6 Jun 2011

WWDC 2011 Prelude      5 Jun 2011

The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco      3 Jun 2011

Ice Water Enthusiast      3 Jun 2011

Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad      1 Jun 2011

May 2011

Measure Twice, Cut Once     23 May 2011

Twitter’s Shit Sandwich     18 May 2011

Wolf!      5 May 2011

April 2011

Magic     25 Apr 2011

Cutting That Cord     15 Apr 2011

Tweetbot 1.0     14 Apr 2011

March 2011

A Rule of Thumb: Pricing Should Be Simple     21 Mar 2011

The Evolution of SXSW Interactive     18 Mar 2011

Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to Apps Outside Mobile Safari in iOS 4.3     17 Mar 2011

Bending Over Backwards     10 Mar 2011

The iPad 2      9 Mar 2011

The Chair      3 Mar 2011

Dirty Percent      1 Mar 2011

February 2011

The Eleventh Hour     24 Feb 2011

The Next Six Months      9 Feb 2011

The Daily Wait      4 Feb 2011

The Verizon iPhone 4      2 Feb 2011

Push Pop Press      1 Feb 2011

Oceania: We Have Always Required Books From the Eurasian E-Bookstore to Be Sold Through Our In-App Purchasing System      1 Feb 2011

January 2011

Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype     18 Jan 2011

The Leave     17 Jan 2011

Too Late     13 Jan 2011

The Practical vs. Idealistic Scenarios for the Near-Term Future of Online Video     13 Jan 2011

Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264     11 Jan 2011

Bull’s-Eyes and Crosshairs      9 Jan 2011

Why Next Week’s Event Is Hosted by Verizon, Not Apple      7 Jan 2011

Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design      7 Jan 2011

December 2010

Emotional Rescue     27 Dec 2010

Title Junk     20 Dec 2010

The Best Laid Plans     14 Dec 2010

The iOS and Android App Economies      9 Dec 2010

The Future of the Mac in an iOS World      3 Dec 2010

Viber      2 Dec 2010

November 2010

Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2     22 Nov 2010

News Corp’s Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing     22 Nov 2010

Where Are the Android Killer Apps?     19 Nov 2010

Masquerading as Mobile Safari to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on Mac OS X     12 Nov 2010

Apple’s Pricing Advantage      9 Nov 2010

Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It      4 Nov 2010

Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X      2 Nov 2010

October 2010

An Anthropomorphized White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped     27 Oct 2010

The Air’s Spot in the Lineup     25 Oct 2010

Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X     22 Oct 2010

September 2010

Star-Struck     24 Sep 2010

Regarding Ashok Kumar’s Track Record on Apple     20 Sep 2010

A Facebook Phone?     20 Sep 2010

Then Welcome to Android     16 Sep 2010

What’s Next for Nokia?     15 Sep 2010

A Taste of What’s New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines      9 Sep 2010

Miscellaneous Observations Regarding the Gadgets That Were (and Were Not) Announced at Last Week’s Apple Event      8 Sep 2010

How Ping Might Grow      7 Sep 2010

August 2010

Getting There From Here, Where by ‘There’ I Mean a Web Where Flash Is Not a De Facto Standard Technology     31 Aug 2010

How to Judge the Battle Between Apple and Adobe Regarding Flash     30 Aug 2010

Creep Executive Officer     20 Aug 2010

January Jones     12 Aug 2010

N92     11 Aug 2010

Papermaster and That Damn Antenna      8 Aug 2010

Service: Open URLs in Safari Tabs      3 Aug 2010

July 2010

An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs     27 Jul 2010

Sorry, No, I’m Not Going to Write a Piece Arguing That Dan Lyons Is a Jackass     22 Jul 2010

Antennagate Addendum     21 Jul 2010

Antennagate Bottom Line     20 Jul 2010

Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the ‘Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4’      2 Jul 2010

iPhone 4 3G Data Performance      1 Jul 2010

June 2010

4     29 Jun 2010

FaceTime and the iPod Touch     23 Jun 2010

Marble Mystery Solved     22 Jun 2010

Apple’s System Apps     21 Jun 2010

WWDC 2010 Wrap-Up     18 Jun 2010

‘First to Do It’ vs. ‘First to Do It Right’     17 Jun 2010

I’ll Tell You What’s Fair     16 Jun 2010

iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations      7 Jun 2010

One Year      7 Jun 2010

Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is Too Closed      3 Jun 2010

The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T’s New Data Plans      2 Jun 2010

May 2010

Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks     28 May 2010

Post-I/O Thoughts     22 May 2010

iPad and Android Web Traffic Share     19 May 2010

John Paczkowski’s Interview With Adobe Co-Founder Chuck Geschke     17 May 2010

Adobe Flash: Almost as Open as Microsoft Office     14 May 2010

Where in the World Is Jesus Diaz?     14 May 2010

Regarding John Nack on Apple’s Control Over Native iPhone OS Software     13 May 2010

This Is How Apple Rolls     13 May 2010

Apple-Verizon Political Calculus, 2010 Edition     12 May 2010

April 2010

Middleware and Section 3.3.1     30 Apr 2010

Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone     22 Apr 2010

Why 960 × 640     19 Apr 2010

It’s Not the Control, It’s the Secrecy     16 Apr 2010

Mobile Multitasking     14 Apr 2010

A Brief Review of Opera Mini for iPhone     13 Apr 2010

Reading Between the iPhone OS 4.0 Lines      9 Apr 2010

Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1      8 Apr 2010

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler      8 Apr 2010

The iPad      7 Apr 2010

The Kids Are All Right      2 Apr 2010

March 2010

Generals’ War     26 Mar 2010

On Submarine Patents vis-à-vis H.264 and Ogg Theora     24 Mar 2010

GIF, H.264, and Patents     22 Mar 2010

Hope You Enjoy the Smell of Napalm in the Morning     19 Mar 2010

Mozilla, Video, and Mobile Computing     18 Mar 2010

An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox     15 Mar 2010

iPhone Apps on the iPad      8 Mar 2010

Attention Is the Real Resource      5 Mar 2010

A Thought Regarding the Old Apple-v.-Microsoft ‘Look and Feel’ Lawsuit      4 Mar 2010

This Apple-HTC Patent Thing      3 Mar 2010

Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7      1 Mar 2010

February 2010

Yet More on the Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga     26 Feb 2010

Tits and Apps     25 Feb 2010

The Whole Thing About Adobe’s Flash Player Not Having Access to H.264 Hardware Acceleration on Mac OS X     20 Feb 2010

Macworld Expo Prelude      9 Feb 2010

What if Flash Were an Open Standard?      1 Feb 2010

January 2010

Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?     30 Jan 2010

Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad     28 Jan 2010

The iPad Big Picture     27 Jan 2010

‘A String of Masterpieces’     26 Jan 2010

Apple, Adobe, and Flash     25 Jan 2010

Apple, Google, Bing, and Search     21 Jan 2010

The Original Tablet     14 Jan 2010

Tablet Musings      7 Jan 2010

December 2009

The Tablet     31 Dec 2009

Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in Browsers Which Support It     21 Dec 2009

More on PastryKit     17 Dec 2009

PastryKit     15 Dec 2009

Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes?     13 Dec 2009

November 2009

A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs     27 Nov 2009

iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store     23 Nov 2009

Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle     20 Nov 2009

The OS Opportunity     18 Nov 2009

Oh Joe You Didn’t     15 Nov 2009

The Airfoil Speakers Touch Situation     13 Nov 2009

The Yankees      9 Nov 2009

Pinching and the Droid      2 Nov 2009

October 2009

Regarding Apple TV     30 Oct 2009

Regarding Joe Wilcox’s ‘iPhone Cannot Win the Smartphone Wars’ Piece     28 Oct 2009

Pound the Quality     27 Oct 2009

Herd Mentality     23 Oct 2009

Apple Netbook Claim Chowder     21 Oct 2009

Microsoft’s Competition for Windows 7     15 Oct 2009

C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX      7 Oct 2009

September 2009

Snow Leopard Adoption Rate     21 Sep 2009

How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?     17 Sep 2009

Snow Leopard Compatibility Tweaks for That Thing I Wrote in January About Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit     14 Sep 2009

iTunes and Cocoa     11 Sep 2009

It’s Only Rock and Roll Event Prelude      8 Sep 2009

Regarding WordPress and Security      6 Sep 2009

More on the Snow Leopard/Old Version of Flash Brouhaha      5 Sep 2009

Regarding the Brouhaha Over the Version of Flash in Snow Leopard      4 Sep 2009

August 2009

So Dan Lyons Called     30 Aug 2009

How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong     23 Aug 2009

Choice Nuggets From Apple’s Response to the FCC’s Inquiry Regarding the Rejection and Removal of Google Voice Apps From the App Store     21 Aug 2009

Regarding the Lack of Consistency in the Age Ratings for Wikipedia-Based iPhone Apps     21 Aug 2009

Android Opportunity Addenda     19 Aug 2009

The Android Opportunity     17 Aug 2009

Zune Apps     14 Aug 2009

Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store      6 Aug 2009

Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple      4 Aug 2009

July 2009

Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline     30 Jul 2009

Apple Rejects Google Voice Apps From App Store     28 Jul 2009

Pay Walls     24 Jul 2009

Charging for Access to News Sites     20 Jul 2009

Simplenote     16 Jul 2009

Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context     10 Jul 2009

Mobile Phone Keyboards      7 Jul 2009

Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora      2 Jul 2009

June 2009

Copy and Paste     26 Jun 2009

Apple’s Secrecy     23 Jun 2009

Regarding the WSJ’s Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant     21 Jun 2009

WWDC 2009 Wrap-Up     17 Jun 2009

WWDC 2009 Predictions      7 Jun 2009

Palm Saturday      5 Jun 2009

More on Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’      2 Jun 2009

Why Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ iTunes Integration Can’t Be Legit      1 Jun 2009

May 2009

Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer     29 May 2009

The Next iPhone     21 May 2009

Regarding the Verizon and ‘iPhone Lite’ Rumors      1 May 2009

April 2009

Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground     24 Apr 2009

How to Block the DiggBar      9 Apr 2009

New Daring Fireball T-Shirts      6 Apr 2009

Complex      1 Apr 2009

March 2009

Obsession Times Voice     27 Mar 2009

Observations, Complaints, Quibbles, and Suggestions Regarding the Safari 4 Public Beta Released One Week Ago, Roughly in Order of Importance      4 Mar 2009

February 2009

Lost in the Shuffle     28 Feb 2009

Best Picture     23 Feb 2009

Untitled Document Syndrome     20 Feb 2009

Apple on the Mind at MWC     18 Feb 2009

Copying the Wrong Thing     17 Feb 2009

Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store     11 Feb 2009

Apple, Google, and Palm     10 Feb 2009

‘Do Shell Script’ and Premature Optimization      5 Feb 2009

January 2009

Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit     30 Jan 2009

The Truth     23 Jan 2009

NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data     21 Jan 2009

Godspeed     14 Jan 2009

Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions      5 Jan 2009

December 2008

E.T.     27 Dec 2008

Private     22 Dec 2008

That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying     18 Dec 2008

Apple ‘Netbooks’, Eh?     16 Dec 2008

Bang     11 Dec 2008

Deep Green      9 Dec 2008

Regarding the John Does in Apple’s Amended Complaint Against Ersatz Mac Cloner Psystar      6 Dec 2008

DF Paraphernalia      3 Dec 2008

November 2008

The Richard Solo 1800 iPhone/iPod Backup Battery     25 Nov 2008

Treating URL Protocol Schemes as Cruft     24 Nov 2008

Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs     19 Nov 2008

iPhone-Optimized Google Search Results     17 Nov 2008

Flagging Messages From iPhone Mail     14 Nov 2008

Executive Scuttlebutt     12 Nov 2008

More Notes on Notes      7 Nov 2008

Tangled Up in White      6 Nov 2008

A Fantastic Monument      5 Nov 2008

iPhone-Likeness      3 Nov 2008

Regarding Opera Mini and the App Store      1 Nov 2008

October 2008

The Richard Solo iPhone/iPod Backup Battery     28 Oct 2008

Good RAM Prices From Apple on New MacBooks     24 Oct 2008

The Phone Company     22 Oct 2008

Translation From Weasel-Speak to English of the Entirety of Duncan Riley’s Second Post-MacBook-Introduction-Event Update to His Widely-Cited Week-Ago Report That Apple Was Going to Announce an ‘$800 Laptop’     16 Oct 2008

Listen to Tim Cook     15 Oct 2008

Today’s Claim Chowder     14 Oct 2008

Contains Spoilers     14 Oct 2008

The iPhone 3G      8 Oct 2008

In the Background      6 Oct 2008

The Fear      2 Oct 2008

September 2008

Adobe Speaks of Flash Player for iPhone     30 Sep 2008

Regarding Apple’s Direct Sales of Unlocked, Contract-Free iPhones in Hong Kong     30 Sep 2008

Are App Store Rejections Really Covered by the NDA?     24 Sep 2008

Digging Deeper     20 Sep 2008

There’s Nothing There     18 Sep 2008

W/r/t DFW     16 Sep 2008

Things That Podcaster’s Rejection From the App Store Is Not About     15 Sep 2008

The App Store’s Exclusionary Policies     12 Sep 2008

Greatly Exaggerated     11 Sep 2008

Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s ‘Let’s Rock’ Apple Special Event     10 Sep 2008

August 2008

Raining on the OpenClip Parade     21 Aug 2008

Title Case Update     13 Aug 2008

Memoranda     11 Aug 2008

It’s a Core Location Blacklist      8 Aug 2008

Is the iPhone NDA About Patents?      7 Aug 2008

iPhone, iCal, and CalDAV      5 Aug 2008

iPhone Calendar Syncing      1 Aug 2008

July 2008

Not Yet Squirrelly     24 Jul 2008

WebKit Performance on iPhone OS 2.0     20 Jul 2008

Distant and Remote     18 Jul 2008

Copy and Paste     15 Jul 2008

iPhone Display Color Temperature, and the Difference Between Builds 5A345 and 5A347 of the iPhone OS     14 Jul 2008

The App Store, Day One     10 Jul 2008

June 2008

Android Expectations     24 Jun 2008

Trade-Offs     24 Jun 2008

New Linked List Permalinks     21 Jun 2008

WWDC 2008 Miscellany     20 Jun 2008

Up Flash Creek Without a Paddle     17 Jun 2008

The iPhone 3G Upgrade Question     16 Jun 2008

Twice as Fast, Half the Price      9 Jun 2008

The Ins and Outs of Snow Leopard      8 Jun 2008

‘Snow Leopard’ at WWDC      4 Jun 2008

me.com      1 Jun 2008

May 2008

Spaces in 10.5.3     30 May 2008

Mobile Me?     30 May 2008

Sixty-Six     27 May 2008

Title Case     20 May 2008

Why Apple Won’t Buy Adobe     14 May 2008

BlackBerry vs. iPhone      9 May 2008

Is This Microsoft-NBC ‘Copyright Cop’ Thing Bullshit or What?      8 May 2008

Regarding the iPhone Keyboard      5 May 2008

Subsidize This      2 May 2008

April 2008

Big Fan     28 Apr 2008

Stopped Clock     25 Apr 2008

The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web Clients for the iPhone     17 Apr 2008

The Invisible Bit     15 Apr 2008

How Much Money Does Apple Get From Google?     11 Apr 2008

Mac OS X’s ‘Search in Google’ Safari Tie-In     10 Apr 2008

Safari’s Tab Dragging Modes      9 Apr 2008

Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 Addenda      8 Apr 2008

Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3      5 Apr 2008

The $64,000 Question      3 Apr 2008

March 2008

Get Your Helmet On     31 Mar 2008

T-Shirts and Memberships, 2008     26 Mar 2008

Quoting Attribution Bug in Apple Mail After Upgrading to Safari 3.1     26 Mar 2008

Update     23 Mar 2008

Regarding That Fucking Headline     20 Mar 2008

How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being an Irredeemable Jackass     20 Mar 2008

Apple Mail and the Control Key     18 Mar 2008

So Who’s In Already?     17 Mar 2008

Foot, Meet Bullet     15 Mar 2008

The Flip Side of the Multitasking Argument     14 Mar 2008

Confusion Regarding iPhone Developer Beta Program     14 Mar 2008

One App at a Time     14 Mar 2008

More Questions      7 Mar 2008

iPhone Enterprise and SDK: First Impressions and Questions      6 Mar 2008

ExpanDrive      4 Mar 2008

iPhone SDK Rumors and Speculation      3 Mar 2008

February 2008

Just the Internet     22 Feb 2008

Flim-Flash     21 Feb 2008

Leopard Details: Anchored Row Selection in NSTableView     20 Feb 2008

The Appeal of the MacBook Air     15 Feb 2008

Flash on iPhone Political Calculus     13 Feb 2008

News Flash: No Flash     12 Feb 2008

Using FastScripts as a Lightweight Alternative to Growl      8 Feb 2008

Devil’s Advocate      7 Feb 2008

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid      6 Feb 2008

Some of the Tweets All of the Time vs. All of the Tweets Some of the Time      5 Feb 2008

Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo      1 Feb 2008

January 2008

My Favorite CARS Moment     31 Jan 2008

Apple First Quarter 2008 Results     23 Jan 2008

Why the Mac Doesn’t Seem Viable for For-Profit Malware     21 Jan 2008

Keynote Roundup     16 Jan 2008

The Talk Show, or at Least Half of It, Live at Macworld     16 Jan 2008

The MacBook Air     15 Jan 2008

iTunes Terms of Service Update for Movie Rentals     15 Jan 2008

Macworld Expo Predictions     14 Jan 2008

Macworld Expo Prelude     13 Jan 2008

Advertising on Daring Fireball     12 Jan 2008

Where Keyboard Shortcuts Win      3 Jan 2008

The Way the Camera Follows Us in Slo-Mo      2 Jan 2008

December 2007

Gina Keating, Ace Reporter     30 Dec 2007

Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort of Knee-Jerk Shill Who Rails Against Anything ‘Anti-Apple’ Simply for the Sake of Defending Apple, and if I Love Apple So Much Why Don’t I Just Marry Them?     19 Dec 2007

‘message:’ URLs in Leopard Mail      4 Dec 2007

Anti-Aliasing on the iPhone      1 Dec 2007

November 2007

DUM     19 Nov 2007

Bento     14 Nov 2007

Apple Needs a Nikon      2 Nov 2007

October 2007

Happy Halloween, Savvy?     31 Oct 2007

Shipping Means Prioritizing     30 Oct 2007

Blue in the Face     29 Oct 2007

Leopard     26 Oct 2007

I Believe in Murphy’s Law     26 Oct 2007

Feedery     25 Oct 2007

Family     24 Oct 2007

Everything’s Coming Up Milhouse     23 Oct 2007

The iPhone and Web Apps     19 Oct 2007

Let the Tea Leaf Reading Begin     19 Oct 2007

Pre-Order Leopard Via DF Amazon Affiliate Links     16 Oct 2007

Total Music, Uh-Huh     12 Oct 2007

The ‘Un’ in ‘Unsupported’     10 Oct 2007

Cancel Computer      5 Oct 2007

A Solomonic Solution to Leopard’s Dock Problem      3 Oct 2007

Forever Is a Long Time      3 Oct 2007

The New Zunes      2 Oct 2007

September 2007

New iPhone 1.1.1 Features, Which May or May Not Be Old News to iPod Touch Owners     28 Sep 2007

More on the Amazon MP3 Store     26 Sep 2007

The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader     25 Sep 2007

Hacking the iPhone Notes App for the Admittedly Nit-Picky Purpose of Changing the Text Font to Helvetica     25 Sep 2007

Actually, Not Much Better at All This Late Than Never     21 Sep 2007

An Important Public Service Announcement Regarding Marker Felt on the iPhone     19 Sep 2007

Notes and Observations Regarding Apple’s Announcements From ‘The Beat Goes On’ Special Event, Which, Inexplicably, I Didn’t Bother to Publish Two Weeks Ago When They Were Relevant     19 Sep 2007

Interesting Tidbits Gleaned From the iPod Touch Features Guide     14 Sep 2007

The Ringtones Racket     13 Sep 2007

Ways in Which iTunes’s Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy     12 Sep 2007

Scratch That Its      9 Sep 2007

I’ll Show You ‘Subpar’      8 Sep 2007

That Product Transition      7 Sep 2007

The Price Cut Heard Round the World      7 Sep 2007

It Is Estimated That NBC Could Not Have Screwed This iTunes Thing Up Any Worse      1 Sep 2007

August 2007

Rethinking Email     27 Aug 2007

Itso     25 Aug 2007

Feedback     16 Aug 2007

C4[1] Photoset on Flickr     15 Aug 2007

C4[1] in a Nut     15 Aug 2007

Clipboard and Text Selection : iPhone :: Arrow Keys : Original Macintosh      9 Aug 2007

Fake Steve, Unmasked      6 Aug 2007

Taking Stock      2 Aug 2007

Dateline NBC’s Report on Stolen iPods      2 Aug 2007

July 2007

Scott Moritz and TheStreet.com’s Million iPhone La‑La Land     31 Jul 2007

Regarding the Daring Fireball RSS Feed     30 Jul 2007

BusinessWeek: ‘Taking the iPhone Apart’     27 Jul 2007

iSuppli     26 Jul 2007

iPhone Fonts     20 Jul 2007

Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail     16 Jul 2007

‘OS X iPod’ Nonsense     15 Jul 2007

Regarding OS X-Based iPods     13 Jul 2007

Selected Wi-Fi Network Names My iPhone Discovered While I Walked to the Grocery Store Yesterday     13 Jul 2007

On Top     11 Jul 2007

Non-Top-Posting Reply Scripts for Apple Mail     10 Jul 2007

Jackass of the Week: MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan      9 Jul 2007

Josh Quittner Returns His iPhone      6 Jul 2007

The New Leopard Dock and the HIG      5 Jul 2007

June 2007

iPhone First Impressions     30 Jun 2007

Acting Up     27 Jun 2007

iPhone Doubter of the Year     26 Jun 2007

Regarding the 80 GB iPhone Capacity in the Activation and Sync Video     26 Jun 2007

Straws, Grasping Thereat     25 Jun 2007

New High-Water Mark in iPhone Jackassery     23 Jun 2007

Apple Cynic Watch: Slate’s Jack Shafer     22 Jun 2007

Exchange Exchange     19 Jun 2007

WWDC 2007 Keynote News     11 Jun 2007

An Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface Theme Shows Up for the WWDC Preview Build of Mac OS X Leopard      9 Jun 2007

The High-Resolution 17-Inch MacBook Pro      7 Jun 2007

Regarding iTunes Plus Metadata      6 Jun 2007

iPhone: Using Cell Towers for Positioning?      6 Jun 2007

Taps      4 Jun 2007

iPhone SDK, iPhone SDK! Wherefore Art Thou iPhone SDK?      1 Jun 2007

May 2007

Yojimbo Import Scripts for Mailsmith and NetNewsWire     29 May 2007

Enjackass     22 May 2007

Microsoft and Yahoo, Sitting in a Tree      5 May 2007

New Shirt Schedule      4 May 2007

Regarding Harry McCracken’s Departure From PC World      4 May 2007

The iPhone’s Funny Price      1 May 2007

April 2007

Google Lucky Search Scripts for ThisService     27 Apr 2007

Interview: Dino Dai Zovi     26 Apr 2007

Coda     24 Apr 2007

In My World     23 Apr 2007

Regarding the Membership Drive     22 Apr 2007

Another Look at These Swell T-Shirts     16 Apr 2007

Membership Drive and Contest Reminder     16 Apr 2007

Bottleneck     13 Apr 2007

The Limited Edition Swap Meat DF T-Shirt     12 Apr 2007

A Wee Bit More on AAC, Ogg, and MP3     10 Apr 2007

Some Facts About AAC     10 Apr 2007

Apple Computer      6 Apr 2007

A Quick, Possibly Incomplete Guide to What Gets Installed by the Google Desktop Installer      4 Apr 2007

EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music      2 Apr 2007

March 2007

Rip This Joint     30 Mar 2007

T-Shirt Upgrade for Recent Membership Sign-Ups     30 Mar 2007

The New Daring Fireball T-Shirts     29 Mar 2007

Regarding the Members-Only Feeds     28 Mar 2007

Creating New Text Files From the Finder’s Contextual Menu     27 Mar 2007

The 2007 Daring Fireball Membership Drive     26 Mar 2007

A Few ‘Deal With It’ Follow-Up Points     25 Mar 2007

Deal With It     23 Mar 2007

LogoMaid Rips Off Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits Logo, and Then Things Get Weird     22 Mar 2007

JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder     19 Mar 2007

Like a Sponge     17 Mar 2007

Let’s Have a Panel on What We Didn’t Like About SXSW 2007     16 Mar 2007

Show Me      5 Mar 2007

Blank Slate      4 Mar 2007

February 2007

Regarding Dori Smith’s Comparison of Gender Diversity Among Speakers at Web Conferences to the Authors of Bestselling JavaScript Books     25 Feb 2007

Regarding Kottke’s Piece on Gender Diversity at Web Conferences     23 Feb 2007

Would Apple Mix DRM and Non-DRM Music at the iTunes Store?     22 Feb 2007

Fair Enough     21 Feb 2007

Using Dynamic Scripting Languages for Mac OS X Application Development     20 Feb 2007

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’     16 Feb 2007

SXSW 2007: The Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer     13 Feb 2007

Command, Option, Control     12 Feb 2007

Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’      7 Feb 2007

More Crap From Rob Enderle on the iPhone      5 Feb 2007

Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates      2 Feb 2007

Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton      1 Feb 2007

January 2007

Sometimes I Wonder Whether Rob Enderle Is Just Pulling Our Legs     25 Jan 2007

‘Word Count’ Script for ThisService     24 Jan 2007

OS X     16 Jan 2007

Daring Fireball Live at Macworld Expo     15 Jan 2007

At ARM’s Length     10 Jan 2007

Macworld Expo 2007 Predictions      9 Jan 2007

Daring Fireball, Live Tuesday at Macworld Expo      8 Jan 2007

Speaking of Clowns      3 Jan 2007

December 2006

I Sold My App Through MacHeist and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt     18 Dec 2006

Getting the Size of Your Display With AppleScript, the Lazy Way     16 Dec 2006

The Iniquities of the Selfish     12 Dec 2006

Microsoft Rips Off Apple’s Workgroup Manager Icon     11 Dec 2006

Conjectural Transcript of the Upcoming Negotiations Between Apple and Universal Music      5 Dec 2006

OmniVapor      1 Dec 2006

November 2006

Did Microsoft Copy the Wrong iPod?     29 Nov 2006

Palm CEO Ed Colligan’s Head Seems to be Stuck Somewhere     28 Nov 2006

DMG Kernel Panic Security Issue     21 Nov 2006

Pinprick     20 Nov 2006

Jackass of the Week: Larry Seltzer     19 Nov 2006

‘Beta’ Is Not an Excuse     13 Nov 2006

I’d Buy That for a Dollar     10 Nov 2006

Stikkit      9 Nov 2006

Why Is Adobe Soundbooth Intel-Only?      2 Nov 2006

October 2006

Can I Get an ‘Hallelujah’ for Auto-Completion With the Esc and F5 Keys?     27 Oct 2006

Yet More Jackasses: Neal Mueller and the Business Editors of The Washington Post     26 Oct 2006

Jackass of the Week: Rush Limbaugh     25 Oct 2006

My Jackass Stamp Is Running Out of Ink     20 Oct 2006

Jackasses of the Week: Gartner Analysts Mark Stahlman and Charles Smulders     19 Oct 2006

Feed Me     18 Oct 2006

Membership Renewal     17 Oct 2006

Using Keyboard Maestro to Intercept Keyboard Shortcuts Usurped by the System     16 Oct 2006

Processing Processes     13 Oct 2006

How to Determine if a Certain App Is Running Using AppleScript and Perl     10 Oct 2006

BBColors 1.0      8 Oct 2006

Some Assembly Required      5 Oct 2006

Brand New      2 Oct 2006

September 2006

New in 10.4.8: Zoom Using Scroll Wheel     29 Sep 2006

Generalissimo Francisco Franco: Still Dead; Kieren McCarthy: Still a Jackass     28 Sep 2006

Jackass of the Week: Kieren McCarthy     26 Sep 2006

The AirPort Security Update and the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack     21 Sep 2006

Regarding the Features and Capabilities of the Various Fifth Generation iPods     20 Sep 2006

Regarding Analyst Speculation on iPod Pricing     18 Sep 2006

Showtime: The New iPods     15 Sep 2006

High on Vapor Fumes     15 Sep 2006

Showtime: The Big Picture     13 Sep 2006

Buy New iPods From Amazon and Support Daring Fireball     12 Sep 2006

Lies, Damned Lies, and MacBook Wi-Fi Hacks     11 Sep 2006

Update on the MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit Challenge      5 Sep 2006

An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch      1 Sep 2006

August 2006

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted     30 Aug 2006

A Bit More Regarding the MacBook Wireless Security Saga     23 Aug 2006

The Curious Case of the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Hack     21 Aug 2006

Jackass of the Week: Paul Thurrott     18 Aug 2006

Site Preferences and T-Shirts     17 Aug 2006

Regarding the Hardware Announcements at WWDC 2006     16 Aug 2006

WWDC Prelude      6 Aug 2006

Highly Selective      4 Aug 2006

Regarding Brian Krebs’s Reporting on the Supposed MacBook Wi-Fi Exploit      3 Aug 2006

July 2006

Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft’s ‘Zune’     25 Jul 2006

Standing in Line With Mr. Jimmy     15 Jul 2006

The Mac OS X Tipping Point      8 Jul 2006

June 2006

Hot Off the Press     26 Jun 2006

Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive     20 Jun 2006

Why Apple Won’t Open Source Its Apps     19 Jun 2006

And Oranges     15 Jun 2006

May 2006

Confidence Game     26 May 2006

‘Web Kit’ vs. ‘WebKit’     15 May 2006

The Last Pixel     12 May 2006

Tim Bray on iCal     12 May 2006

Jackass of the Week: Rob Glaser     11 May 2006

Goal      9 May 2006

Using .htaccess Redirection to Standardize Web Server Addresses      5 May 2006

More Aperture Dirt      4 May 2006

Good Journalism      2 May 2006

April 2006

Feed Me     30 Apr 2006

Aperture Dirt     28 Apr 2006

More on NSTextView’s ‘Smart’ Cut/Copy/Paste     27 Apr 2006

When ‘Smart’ Cut/Copy/Paste Attacks     26 Apr 2006

Cringely’s Machinations     22 Apr 2006

Initiative     20 Apr 2006

New T-Shirts     19 Apr 2006

O’Grady v. Superior Court     13 Apr 2006

Seriously, ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo     12 Apr 2006

Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend     10 Apr 2006

Windows: The New Classic      6 Apr 2006

‘Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates      3 Apr 2006

March 2006

Adios Avie     31 Mar 2006

Stubborn Chronicle Staff Writer Is an Ignoramus     27 Mar 2006

The iPod Juggernaut     24 Mar 2006

The Annals of Journalism     10 Mar 2006

Speaking at SXSW     10 Mar 2006

Switching Is Afoot      8 Mar 2006

Familiarity Breeds a User Base      5 Mar 2006

February 2006

The Safari Shell Script Execution Exploit     22 Feb 2006

Joyeur     20 Feb 2006

Smart Crash Reports Addenda     13 Feb 2006

Bedecked      2 Feb 2006

January 2006

Smart Crash Reports     30 Jan 2006

Macworld Expo 2006 in Review     20 Jan 2006

iTunes MiniStore Is Now Opt-In     18 Jan 2006

iLife ’06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface     13 Jan 2006

MWSF ’06 Predictions     10 Jan 2006

December 2005

Merry     26 Dec 2005

A Public Service Announcement Regarding ‘callto:’ URIs and Safari     16 Dec 2005

November 2005

‘Restart Apache’ AppleScript     30 Nov 2005

Full Metal Jacket Addenda     16 Nov 2005

Full Metal Jacket     11 Nov 2005

October 2005

Membership Numbers     27 Oct 2005

BBEdit and TextWrangler CSS Syntax Checker 1.0.1     26 Oct 2005

Prizes for 2005 Membership Drive     24 Oct 2005

Notes on Membership Information     24 Oct 2005

If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be Time for New Apple Product Announcements     19 Oct 2005

The Life     14 Oct 2005

Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today’s Special Event     12 Oct 2005

Introducing Joyent      5 Oct 2005

Membership Renewal 2005      3 Oct 2005

September 2005

The English-Likeness Monster     27 Sep 2005

Rhymes With Ditty     21 Sep 2005

Wrong Folder Returned by ‘path to’ Command in System Events Tell Blocks     13 Sep 2005

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme      8 Sep 2005

BBEdit CSS Syntax Checker 1.0      6 Sep 2005

August 2005

Google Is an Advertising Company     29 Aug 2005

The GUIdebook Interview     18 Aug 2005

Star Star     11 Aug 2005

Trusted      6 Aug 2005

Notes on Notes      1 Aug 2005

July 2005

Location Validation in the Dashboard Weather Widget     22 Jul 2005

About the Footnotes     20 Jul 2005

Is That a Podcast in Your Pocket?     13 Jul 2005

Plugged Leaks      1 Jul 2005

June 2005

Shuffling     30 Jun 2005

Hacking Apple’s Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update     27 Jun 2005

Making Book     23 Jun 2005

Together We Can Rule the Galaxy     10 Jun 2005

Bombs Away      8 Jun 2005

Classic Not Supported on Intel-Based Macs      6 Jun 2005

Intel-Apple Odds and Ends      5 Jun 2005

I’ll See You Intel      5 Jun 2005

Tiger Adoption Rate      4 Jun 2005

May 2005

Intel-mania     27 May 2005

I Suppose It Has to Be OK     20 May 2005

Dictionary Look-Ups From BBEdit, Mailsmith, and TextWrangler      7 May 2005

April 2005

The Tiger Details List     29 Apr 2005

The Fish Rots From the Head     27 Apr 2005

The Other Amazons     21 Apr 2005

Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia     21 Apr 2005

Fun for the Whole Family     12 Apr 2005

It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word ‘Replace’ Is      7 Apr 2005

Point, Counterpoint: Mac OS X Is Great for Fortysomething Unix Hackers      4 Apr 2005

March 2005

Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window, Redux     30 Mar 2005

Pre-Order Tiger From Amazon     28 Mar 2005

Caching Out     26 Mar 2005

Font Caches Gone Wild     25 Mar 2005

Login Delays and Damaged Font Caches on Mac OS X 10.3     21 Mar 2005

On the Discovery Ruling in ‘Apple v. Does’     15 Mar 2005

On the Credibility of The New York Times     11 Mar 2005

If The New York Times Jumped Off a Bridge      8 Mar 2005

Nerve Touching      4 Mar 2005

Kill ‘nav-commenters.gif’      1 Mar 2005

February 2005

FireWire Hysteria     24 Feb 2005

How to Create an ‘App of the Year’     18 Feb 2005

Apps of the Year, 2004     16 Feb 2005

Marking Subscriptions as ‘Private’ in Bloglines     14 Feb 2005

Members-Only RSS Feeds Now Using HTTP Authentication     11 Feb 2005

Subscription Small Print      8 Feb 2005

Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service      6 Feb 2005

January 2005

Promotional Consideration     28 Jan 2005

Miscellaneous Updates/Corrections, Several of Which Aren’t Substantial Enough to Constitute a Full Article by Themselves, but Which Were Assembled Together Mainly as an Excuse to Use This Preposterously Long Title     26 Jan 2005

Small, Cheap, and Without a Display     16 Jan 2005

The Rumor Game      6 Jan 2005

Plugging Leaks      5 Jan 2005

Apple to Announce ‘iWork’ Office Suite?      3 Jan 2005

December 2004

Software Update Tips and Voodoo     28 Dec 2004

Markdown Licensing     17 Dec 2004

Markdown 1.0.1     17 Dec 2004

Paging Jennifer Beals     11 Dec 2004

Amazon Debauchery      5 Dec 2004

Flash Gordon      2 Dec 2004

November 2004

On the Placement of Linked List Content     24 Nov 2004

MDJ Reports Tim Bucher No Longer at Apple     20 Nov 2004

The True Story of Audion     12 Nov 2004

Additional Poofery     11 Nov 2004

Examining the Consistency of Your Poofs      2 Nov 2004

October 2004

iPod Mania     29 Oct 2004

iPod Daring Fireball Special Edition     26 Oct 2004

Does This Brushed Metal Stuff Really Even Matter?     22 Oct 2004

Today’s Theme: Themes     19 Oct 2004

Brushed Metal and the HIG     16 Oct 2004

PayPal Outage     12 Oct 2004

Gruber for Hire      8 Oct 2004

Still Not Much of a Joke      7 Oct 2004

Some Joke      6 Oct 2004

T-shirts Redux      5 Oct 2004

BBEdit Soft Wrap Toggling      4 Oct 2004

‘Rename Active Document’ Script for BBEdit      2 Oct 2004

September 2004

Windows Versus the World     30 Sep 2004

For Whatever Reasons     27 Sep 2004

Traffic and Readership     24 Sep 2004

Sponsor This     22 Sep 2004

Opening Files Together in a New BBEdit Text Window     17 Sep 2004

BBEdit 8     14 Sep 2004

MSN Music ‘iPod’ Help Page Updated Again      8 Sep 2004

MT Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8      7 Sep 2004

You Can Choose Any Color You Want, as Long as It’s Black      3 Sep 2004

We’ve Never Even Heard of This ‘iTunes Music Store’ of Which You Speak      2 Sep 2004

August 2004

Apache Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8     30 Aug 2004

Markdown 1.0     28 Aug 2004

OmniWeb 5.0     21 Aug 2004

Why 2004 Won’t Be Like 1984     16 Aug 2004

Things Unmentioned in the ‘Art of the Parlay’ Article, but of Which You Must Take My Word Were Left Out Because They Were Beside the Point, and Not Because I Was Unaware of Them     11 Aug 2004

The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform Licensing and Market Share      7 Aug 2004

The Perl Email Project      2 Aug 2004

July 2004

Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding RealNetworks’ Harmony     30 Jul 2004

Properly Attired     25 Jul 2004

Awarded     23 Jul 2004

Membership Keys     14 Jul 2004

Spotlight on Spotlight     12 Jul 2004

Status      9 Jul 2004

Konfab Confab      6 Jul 2004

The Last-Minute Push      2 Jul 2004

Multiple Shirt Orders      2 Jul 2004

June 2004

Dashboard vs. Konfabulator     30 Jun 2004

Introducing the Linked List     28 Jun 2004

More Membership Prizes     25 Jun 2004

The Location Field Is the New Command Line     22 Jun 2004

Membership Giveaways     22 Jun 2004

Questions Regarding the Shirts and Membership     18 Jun 2004

Something Daring     16 Jun 2004

So Witty     11 Jun 2004

Misregistered      8 Jun 2004

Security Update      7 Jun 2004

Broken Windows      4 Jun 2004

May 2004

Security Cannot Be Spun     30 May 2004

An Ounce of Prevention     24 May 2004

About the Help Viewer Security Update, and, Also, Why I Don’t Think You Need Paranoid Android     23 May 2004

Using the ‘telnet’ URI Protocol to Delete Files     21 May 2004

Disabling Unsafe URI Handlers With RCDefaultApp     20 May 2004

Like a Lead Zeppelin     15 May 2004

Movable Type 3.0 Plug-In Compatibility     15 May 2004

Writing for Google     11 May 2004

What to Do When Your Energy Saver Prefs Panel Won’t Load      6 May 2004

Fixing Corrupt Preferences for Default Internet Helpers      5 May 2004

Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re Good Links, I Swear      1 May 2004

April 2004

If It Ain’t Broke     23 Apr 2004

Crying Wolf     16 Apr 2004

Preferences     12 Apr 2004

Sundry ‘Spray-On’ Clarifications and Corrections      6 Apr 2004

Ronco Spray-On Usability      1 Apr 2004

March 2004

Marcia, Marcia, Markdown     25 Mar 2004

Dive Into Markdown     19 Mar 2004

Introducing Markdown     15 Mar 2004

I Would Like You to Dance      9 Mar 2004

For Real      4 Mar 2004

February 2004

Mailsmith ‘Send Now’ Menu Key Defense     26 Feb 2004

48 Hours     20 Feb 2004

Setting Empty File and Creator Types     13 Feb 2004

Scripting File and Creator Types     12 Feb 2004

OmniWeb 5 Public Beta      2 Feb 2004

January 2004

Nudge     30 Jan 2004

Folklore     25 Jan 2004

Joney Jojo Junior Shabadoo     22 Jan 2004

The H-Bomb     14 Jan 2004

Command and Control      9 Jan 2004

You’re Not One of Those Agitators, Are You?      7 Jan 2004

A Big Garage      6 Jan 2004

Die Hard      5 Jan 2004

Intervals      3 Jan 2004

December 2003

Rob Enderle: Putting the ‘Anal’ in ‘Analyst’     28 Dec 2003

Inflammable Means Flammable?     16 Dec 2003

Losers, Weepers     14 Dec 2003

Old Habits     11 Dec 2003

PHP Syntax Checking in BBEdit      6 Dec 2003

Graphic Communication      4 Dec 2003

More Accurate (but, Admittedly, Less Sensational) Alternative Stencil Slogans for the ‘Neistat Brothers’      2 Dec 2003

Panther Adoption Rate      1 Dec 2003

November 2003

Ejection     25 Nov 2003

Siracusa on Panther     19 Nov 2003

Crufty the Clown     16 Nov 2003

Eggs and Irons     14 Nov 2003

BBEdit 7.1     13 Nov 2003

Panther Text Rendering     10 Nov 2003

SmartyPants 1.4.1      8 Nov 2003

External Editors in Xcode      7 Nov 2003

Run Panther Run      3 Nov 2003

October 2003

Command-Tab     27 Oct 2003

Browser Stats     24 Oct 2003

Closed Is Open     21 Oct 2003

Pop Culture     16 Oct 2003

Various Links Related to Words That End With ‘ck’      9 Oct 2003

Dudley More      9 Oct 2003

Dell’s Dud      1 Oct 2003

September 2003

Miscellanea     26 Sep 2003

‘Select Word’ Script Addenda     25 Sep 2003

Interview: Michael Tsai     24 Sep 2003

‘Select Word’ Script for BBEdit     23 Sep 2003

AppleScript ‘Whose’ Clauses     19 Sep 2003

IBM Compatible     16 Sep 2003

The White Stripes      9 Sep 2003

Using CVS with BBEdit      8 Sep 2003

VapoRub      4 Sep 2003

VaporOffice      2 Sep 2003

August 2003

Dynomite!     28 Aug 2003

Good Times     25 Aug 2003

The Daring Fireball Power 1 List     23 Aug 2003

On Newsstands Now     19 Aug 2003

Text Editing News     13 Aug 2003

The One and Only Mac OS X Extensions Folder     10 Aug 2003

Panic Room      9 Aug 2003

Microtech’s Crashtacular Zio Driver      7 Aug 2003

Crayolas      6 Aug 2003

I Would Not Feel So All Alone      5 Aug 2003

Mailsmith, an iBook, and Glider Pro Walk Into a Bar      1 Aug 2003

July 2003

Bang for Your Buck     27 Jul 2003

Look Out Below     26 Jul 2003

Market Share     24 Jul 2003

‘Grab HTML’ Script for BBEdit, Redux     21 Jul 2003

Finding Avie     17 Jul 2003

The Good, the Bad, and the Avie     14 Jul 2003

Independent Days      8 Jul 2003

Textiles      2 Jul 2003

Casady & Greene      1 Jul 2003

June 2003

SmartyPants 1.4     30 Jun 2003

You Put Chocolate in My Peanut Butter     29 Jun 2003

Flipping the Bird     27 Jun 2003

Drop a Dime     24 Jun 2003

Very Brief Comments Regarding Certain of Today’s WWDC Announcements     23 Jun 2003

You Have New Mail     18 Jun 2003

Internet Explorer     16 Jun 2003

TrackBack Addenda     13 Jun 2003

Take Your TrackBacks and Dangle     12 Jun 2003

Noted      5 Jun 2003

Looney Tunes      2 Jun 2003

May 2003

Waferbaby Interview     22 May 2003

Steaming Pile     19 May 2003

JackAssassin     18 May 2003

Zeldman Reloaded     16 May 2003

SmartyPants 1.3     14 May 2003

Safari’s Unscriptable Tabs     13 May 2003

Much Ado About Click-Through     10 May 2003

The Problems With Click-Through      7 May 2003

More iTunes Minutiae      2 May 2003

Et Tu iTunes?      1 May 2003

Interface Details: iTunes vs. Safari      1 May 2003

April 2003

Observations Regarding iTunes 4     30 Apr 2003

RTF to Plain Text Translator     29 Apr 2003

Stoned     28 Apr 2003

Accommodating     24 Apr 2003

Command Line Fun     23 Apr 2003

Sticky Business Redux: Web Browsers     15 Apr 2003

The Sticky Business of Page Layout     14 Apr 2003

Qwerty      8 Apr 2003

Translation      7 Apr 2003

Siracusa on the Finder      2 Apr 2003

Get What You Pay For      1 Apr 2003

March 2003

Interview: Brent Simmons     28 Mar 2003

The Party’s Over     25 Mar 2003

Bitmap Like It’s 1989     23 Mar 2003

Anti-Anti-Aliasing     19 Mar 2003

Code Monkey     13 Mar 2003

SmartyPants 1.2.1     11 Mar 2003

Anti-Aliasing      8 Mar 2003

Aliasing      7 Mar 2003

I Love It Because It’s Trash      2 Mar 2003

Not Dead Yet      1 Mar 2003

February 2003

SmartyPants 1.2     27 Feb 2003

Banana Jr.     27 Feb 2003

We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here     26 Feb 2003

Wrangly     25 Feb 2003

New Trick for Script Menu     24 Feb 2003

Stinkmail     23 Feb 2003

Install Like It’s 1991     23 Feb 2003

Larry, Moe, Curly     23 Feb 2003

Short and Curlies     22 Feb 2003

Popularity Contest     18 Feb 2003

Inconsistencies     16 Feb 2003

Flowers Are for Chumps     14 Feb 2003

Konfabulous     12 Feb 2003

Operatic      8 Feb 2003

When in Rome      7 Feb 2003

SmartyPants 1.1      7 Feb 2003

Enkode This      4 Feb 2003

Remember IE?      3 Feb 2003

Save and Restore Safari URLs      3 Feb 2003

January 2003

Scripting Safari URLs Update     31 Jan 2003

Scripting Safari URLs     23 Jan 2003

Safari Source in BBEdit     21 Jan 2003

Ocean’s X11     21 Jan 2003

Two Slices     17 Jan 2003

A La Mode     15 Jan 2003

Lies, Damn Lies     13 Jan 2003

Safari Links     11 Jan 2003

Nottke     10 Jan 2003

So Far We     10 Jan 2003

100 Percent Cotton     10 Jan 2003

Safari      8 Jan 2003

Rectangular      7 Jan 2003

Last Minute MWSF Predictions      7 Jan 2003

December 2002

That Sort of Thing     30 Dec 2002

Rascal     27 Dec 2002

Developer Goodies     23 Dec 2002

bbdiff 1.1     22 Dec 2002

Welch and Tsai on the Finder     20 Dec 2002

BBEdit 7 Review     19 Dec 2002

Bare Bones Disclaimer     19 Dec 2002

Finder Reflux     16 Dec 2002

Hackass     10 Dec 2002

Not the Eskimo      6 Dec 2002

Snow Day      5 Dec 2002

I’m a Lover, Not a Fighter      3 Dec 2002

November 2002

Thanksfindering     28 Nov 2002

That Finder Thing     26 Nov 2002

DMG     20 Nov 2002

Do You Smell Something?     19 Nov 2002

A Valid Point     15 Nov 2002

SmartyPants 1.0     13 Nov 2002

Journaling Details     12 Nov 2002

Crow     11 Nov 2002

Victors, Spoils, Dumb-Ass Voters      7 Nov 2002

Cruft      7 Nov 2002

Wine      4 Nov 2002

October 2002

Perl for Dummies (And Apple Installer Engineers)     29 Oct 2002

Stereotypical Fun     26 Oct 2002

Switched     23 Oct 2002

Valid RSS 0.91 Feeds From Movable Type     23 Oct 2002

Exposed     21 Oct 2002

Journal to the Center of the Earth     17 Oct 2002

Listen     16 Oct 2002

Stepping on eWeek’s Blue Suede Shoes     16 Oct 2002

Microsoft Make-Up     15 Oct 2002

Microsoft’s Answer to Ellen Feiss     14 Oct 2002

Labels X     11 Oct 2002

MacSFTP     10 Oct 2002

Only Funny Because It’s True      8 Oct 2002

Fork You      8 Oct 2002

Matters Unix      7 Oct 2002

Movable Type Smart Quotes, Now With Retsin      5 Oct 2002

Linktoberfest      2 Oct 2002

September 2002

Feed Me     29 Sep 2002

Welcome, Indeed     27 Sep 2002

The Annotated Workspace     26 Sep 2002

VersionCrapper User Reviews     24 Sep 2002

On Joel on Software     21 Sep 2002

I.P. Freely     16 Sep 2002

Siracusa on Jaguar     10 Sep 2002

A Brief Word on Netscape 7.0      3 Sep 2002

August 2002

Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman     30 Aug 2002

Unix Switchers     29 Aug 2002

‘Grab HTML’ Script for BBEdit     22 Aug 2002

Blame It on Quark     21 Aug 2002

Pretty Good News     19 Aug 2002

iPhony     19 Aug 2002

Why HyperCard Failed     16 Aug 2002

Movable Type Smart Quote Devilry     16 Aug 2002

Jack Valenti Does Not Smell Like Teen Spirit     14 Aug 2002

Baby Needs a New Pair of Processors     13 Aug 2002