By John Gruber
Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars 10 Oct 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
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
Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News 19 Jul 2024
It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns 14 Jul 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Google’s Pixel 8 Launch Event 5 Oct 2023
iPhone 15 OverheatGate Seems to Be a Nothingburger 1 Oct 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
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
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
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
Nerding Out With Maestral, LaunchControl, and Keyboard Maestro 19 Jul 2023
Now Apollo Faces the Cliff 7 Jul 2023
Threads 5 Jul 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
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
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
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
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
Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff 1 Mar 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
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
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
Twitter Tumult 18 Nov 2022
App Store Ads Gone Wild 31 Oct 2022
The 2022 iPad (and a Wee Note About the 2022 iPad Pros) 26 Oct 2022
Everything 6 Oct 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
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
The 2022 13-Inch MacBook Air 15 Jul 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
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
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
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
On the Origin of the iPhone 25 Feb 2022
My 2021 Apple Report Card 15 Feb 2022
Going Dutch 7 Feb 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
Appeals Court Grants Apple a Delay on Injunction Mandating Changes to App Store in Epic Case 8 Dec 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
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
Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning? 27 Sep 2021
The 2021 iPad Mini 22 Sep 2021
The iPhones 13 21 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
Charlie Watts 28 Aug 2021
Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope 6 Aug 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
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
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
Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Apple Event 23 Apr 2021
Et tu, Procter & Gamble? 9 Apr 2021
In Russia, iPhone Apps Install You 2 Apr 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
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
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
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
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
Heavy Is the Head That Wears the AirPods Max 10 Dec 2020
M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness 2 Dec 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
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
Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer 9 Oct 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
On TikTok as a Security Threat 18 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
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
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
On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month 9 Jun 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Going Pro 4 Sep 2019
Apple Addresses Siri Privacy Protections 28 Aug 2019
Siri, Privacy, and Trust 16 Aug 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
Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple 27 Jun 2019
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak 5 Jun 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
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
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
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
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
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
An Alternative Theory on Purportedly Weak iPhone XR Demand 26 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
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
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
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
Apple Updates MacBook Pro Models With Touch Bar 12 Jul 2018
Google Demos Duplex 27 Jun 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
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
Users and Customers 2 Apr 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
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
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
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
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
iPhone X Review Roundup 31 Oct 2017
Face ID FUD 25 Oct 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Regarding Uber’s New ‘Always’ Location Tracking 19 Dec 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
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
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
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
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
Jack Off 29 Jul 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
Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Freedom of Speech 25 May 2016
Gboard 12 May 2016
Instagram’s New Look 11 May 2016
Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and Marketing 4 May 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
The iPhone SE 31 Mar 2016
Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today’s ‘Loop You In’ Apple Event 21 Mar 2016
On the San Bernardino Suspect’s Apple ID Password Reset 21 Feb 2016
Apple’s App Problem 3 Feb 2016
Why Apple Assembles in China 20 Jan 2016
The Curious Case of the Curious Case 11 Dec 2015
What Goes Up 13 Nov 2015
The iPad Pro 11 Nov 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
‘It May Seem Silly’ 22 Aug 2015
‘Which Is the Most Important Device You Use to Connect to the Internet?’ 6 Aug 2015
Safari Content Blocker, Before and After 8 Jul 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
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
The H-Word 25 Mar 2015
Apple Watch Prelude 7 Mar 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
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
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
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
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
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
Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays 22 Aug 2014
Two Memos 18 Jul 2014
Only Apple 13 Jun 2014
WWDC 2014 Prelude 1 Jun 2014
Some Tweaks to the @daringfireball Twitter Account 16 May 2014
Titles 8 May 2014
Katie Cotton 7 May 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
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
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
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
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
The Retina iPad Mini 15 Nov 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
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
The Case for a New Lower-Cost iPhone 13 Aug 2013
Fitting the Facts to the Narrative 31 Jul 2013
‘Everybody Loves Bob’ 29 Jul 2013
‘This Is Our Signature’: iOS 7 10 Jun 2013
WWDC 2013 Expectations 9 Jun 2013
All the Mashed Potatoes 16 May 2013
Google Versus 15 May 2013
Facebook Home and Dogfooding 14 May 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
Everything Else 19 Mar 2013
Ceding the Crown 15 Mar 2013
Open and Shut 1 Mar 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
The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design 18 Jan 2013
How to Create Retina-Caliber Favicons 4 Jan 2013
A Big Misunderstanding 20 Dec 2012
Google Maps for iPhone 13 Dec 2012
Why ‘The Daily’ Failed 3 Dec 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
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
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
Sharing the Stage 23 Aug 2012
Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher 14 Aug 2012
Pixel Perfect 13 Aug 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
Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place 20 Jun 2012
Three Takeaways From Today’s WWDC Keynote 11 Jun 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
iOS Low-Hanging Fruit 11 May 2012
Connect the Dots 7 May 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
Separating the Baby From the Bath Water 20 Mar 2012
iPad (3) 14 Mar 2012
Only Apple 8 Mar 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
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
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
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
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
Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot 6 Oct 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
Winning 12 Sep 2011
The New Apple Advantage 9 Sep 2011
Compromise 1 Sep 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
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
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
Measure Twice, Cut Once 23 May 2011
Twitter’s Shit Sandwich 18 May 2011
Wolf! 5 May 2011
Magic 25 Apr 2011
Cutting That Cord 15 Apr 2011
Tweetbot 1.0 14 Apr 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How Ping Might Grow 7 Sep 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
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
iPhone 4 3G Data Performance 1 Jul 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Snow Leopard Adoption Rate 21 Sep 2009
How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? 17 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
So Dan Lyons Called 30 Aug 2009
How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong 23 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
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
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
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
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
Obsession Times Voice 27 Mar 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gina Keating, Ace Reporter 30 Dec 2007
‘message:’ URLs in Leopard Mail 4 Dec 2007
Anti-Aliasing on the iPhone 1 Dec 2007
DUM 19 Nov 2007
Bento 14 Nov 2007
Apple Needs a Nikon 2 Nov 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Safari Shell Script Execution Exploit 22 Feb 2006
Joyeur 20 Feb 2006
Smart Crash Reports Addenda 13 Feb 2006
Bedecked 2 Feb 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
Merry 26 Dec 2005
A Public Service Announcement Regarding ‘callto:’ URIs and Safari 16 Dec 2005
‘Restart Apache’ AppleScript 30 Nov 2005
Full Metal Jacket Addenda 16 Nov 2005
Full Metal Jacket 11 Nov 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
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
BBEdit CSS Syntax Checker 1.0 6 Sep 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
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
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
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
The Tiger Details List 29 Apr 2005
The Fish Rots From the Head 27 Apr 2005
The Other Amazons 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
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
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
Promotional Consideration 28 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Panther Adoption Rate 1 Dec 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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