Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my many Twitter accounts.

17 October

@epaga:

A WWDC slide from a more civilized time in Apple’s history. [i.imgur.com]

# 2019/10/17 - 18:04 — original tweet by @epaga

@bmcnett:

This is bonkers: 4k images carefully contrived to contain each of the 24-bit RGB colors, exactly once. [allrgb.com]

# 2019/10/17 - 10:10 — original tweet by @bmcnett

16 October

Game development sucks.

# 2019/10/16 - 17:58 — published on @commandergaroo

Damn, having to make an Apple TV version is bad enough, I didn’t even realize Apple Arcade would impose so many localizations

# 2019/10/16 - 17:55 — published on @commandergaroo

@ihatejoelkim:

This move should turn straight Pokémon gay. Cowards. [twitter.com]

# 2019/10/16 - 17:51 — original tweet by @ihatejoelkim

@dcseifert:

both Gear VR and Daydream got the axe this year.

I think it’s safe to say that the idea of phone-based VR is dead and gone

[theverge.com]

# 2019/10/16 - 17:49 — original tweet by @dcseifert

Aujourd’hui mon Pinterest s’est découvert une passion pour les activités de développement psychomoteur des enfants en bas-âge 🤨

# 2019/10/16 - 16:44 — published on @garoo

Pourquoi personne ne m’avait dit que ça existait ?

# 2019/10/16 - 16:23 — published on @garoo

Aahhh je n’avais pas vu qu’on pouvait enfin enregistrer ses filtres préférés pour de story Instagram 🙌

# 2019/10/16 - 13:07 — published on @garoo

@g_gosden:

Brilliant

# 2019/10/16 - 10:54 — original tweet by @g_gosden

@Neveth:

# 2019/10/16 - 10:22 — original tweet by @Neveth

I haven’t bought Disco Elysium yet but I absolutely love this idea for a mechanic

# 2019/10/16 - 01:53 — published on @commandergaroo

15 October

@BenKuchera:

Discontinuing Daydream while asking people to believe that Stadia is going to be a long-term thing is a bold play, but let’s see if it works out for ‘em.

# 2019/10/15 - 23:05 — original tweet by @BenKuchera

@zeynep:

NEW piece from me: We’re missing the important question about China. The mystery isn’t why Apple and NBA are quick to cave but why the Chinese government threw a fit over minor things—and why now? That answer isn’t obvious but it’s greatly consequential. [theatlantic.com]

# 2019/10/15 - 23:04 — original tweet by @zeynep

Ooooh Beat Saber has achievements now.

Getting the expert achievements doesn’t give you the lower-difficulty ones 😒

# 2019/10/15 - 22:50 — published on @commandergaroo

@sophiedrx:

La Tribune du Monde intitulée “Jusqu’où laisserons-nous passer la haine des musulmans?” n’étant pr l’instant dispo qu’aux abonnés, je me permet de la partager ici compte tenu de son importance face à la gravité de ce qui se passe dans notre pays.

🔗: [lemonde.fr]

# 2019/10/15 - 19:21 — original tweet by @sophiedrx

@sidneyfussell:

Google’s announcing new phones today, so I hope you’ll take a few moments to read how unwitting, mostly black homeless people became part of the Pixel 4’s development process [theatlantic.com]

# 2019/10/15 - 18:05 — original tweet by @sidneyfussell

@archeometrie:

Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot specialized in prehistoric music demonstrates a Lithophone. 🎵🎶🎵

# 2019/10/15 - 17:40 — original tweet by @archeometrie

@rouxron:

This is how I’m going to reject people from now on [twitter.com]

# 2019/10/15 - 17:40 — original tweet by @rouxron

Are we supposed to believe that the new Nest Mini has better sound than the much bigger Google Home, or should I buy a three-year-old device that is so obsolete they haven’t even bothered to rename it “Nest Something”?

# 2019/10/15 - 17:38 — published on @ff00aa

Every year Google’s keynote makes me kinda want to buy a Pixel just as a dedicated camera, but I don’t have that sort of disposable income and switching to Android is a forever nope.

(Okay, not quite forever if Apple keeps its current trajectory.)

# 2019/10/15 - 17:29 — published on @ff00aa

@davidberreby:

Uber passengers don’t wear seatbelts. Nonsmokers vape. Waze clogs streets not meant for heavy traffic. All examples of tech services eroding hard-won public-safety measures, because for tech there is no public, only individuals. @ibogost explains [theatlantic.com]

# 2019/10/15 - 16:16 — original tweet by @davidberreby

@SanbornVR:

Wow, Outer Worlds is looking REALLY solid. The Fallout game we’ve all been waiting for.

The First 20 Minutes of The Outer Worlds - IGN First

[youtu.be] via @YouTube

# 2019/10/15 - 13:53 — original tweet by @SanbornVR

Power went out. It never occurred to me before but I went to my laptop’s wifi menu to enable tethering and, oh, that’s a real good test of whether the power’s out in the whole building.

# 2019/10/15 - 12:42 — published on @ff00aa

@MarguerinLDN:

Je suis pédé, anti-fasciste, et plus que jamais solidaire avec les musulman-es, en particulier les femmes voilées, contre cette énième explosion de haine sexiste et islamophobe.

# 2019/10/15 - 12:13 — original tweet by @MarguerinLDN

I fucking hate using power tools.

# 2019/10/15 - 12:11 — published on @garoo

Crow: The Legend has gorgeous visuals, great animation, good voice acting and it’s a sweet story to boot

But there are no graphics settings that I could see and immersion suffered from my 1070 skipping a lot of frames during heavily animated scenes.

# 2019/10/15 - 00:57 — published on @commandergaroo

14 October

It’s actually / originally “petit larceny” 🤯

# 2019/10/14 - 21:42 — published on @garoo

@G_mrcco:

Une consultation chez le médecin ou le dentiste est moins chère qu’une coupe chez le coiffeur. Une infirmière à domicile est rémunérée l’équivalent d’un Happy meal par patient. Une séance de kiné est facturée l’équivalent d’un ticket de cinéma. Continuez de mépriser vos soignants

# 2019/10/14 - 18:46 — original tweet by @G_mrcco

That is rather contrary to what Apple’s own blurb in “Safari & Privacy” says. If the paragraph is obsolete, it would have been a good idea to update it when they added Tencent. Or are they giving themselves leeway to flip a switch later?

# 2019/10/14 - 18:44 — published on @ff00aa

@LeilaBeratto:

En trois jours, on passe easy d’une humiliation par un élu d’extreme droite, d’une instrumentalisation, d’un ministre qui dit “pas souhaitable”, d’un sondage qui dit “oh, tous le monde y est favorable”, à BIM, une proposition de loi.

Quelle honte. [twitter.com]

# 2019/10/14 - 16:54 — original tweet by @LeilaBeratto

@shujaxhaider:

subtweet to writers of tv programs about supernatural phenomena: learn the correct singular and plural forms of the word “phenomena”

# 2019/10/14 - 15:55 — original tweet by @shujaxhaider

@MatthieuBidan:

Donc je résume 🙃🙃🙃

- Des supporters racistes font des cris de singe, on débat du racisme anti blanc.

- Un élu islamophobe humilie une mère de famille, on débat du voile.

L’extrême droite continue d’imposer son agenda.

# 2019/10/14 - 15:32 — original tweet by @MatthieuBidan

@Pinboard:

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

# 2019/10/14 - 12:59 — original tweet by @Pinboard

I saw these screens in two games and figured they were too similar to be a coincidence. So Apple gave boilerplate code to all Arcade developers and not only does it produce the worst sync UI ever made, it doesn’t even work well.

# 2019/10/14 - 02:26 — published on @ff00aa

13 October

Oh for fuck’s sake I’m gonna buy a Surface Laptop

# 2019/10/13 - 23:15 — published on @ff00aa

@MichaelGalanin:

Money can’t buy you happiness

# 2019/10/13 - 22:48 — original tweet by @MichaelGalanin

Inmost is very good (except for the end, where they gave up on making a game) but it’s really fucking dark, making it an odd choice for Apple Arcade, a service many parents will consider as a cheap baby-sitter and on which they’ll give their children free rein.

# 2019/10/13 - 22:44 — published on @commandergaroo

Inmost (iOS) — 8/10

# 2019/10/13 - 22:34

@benedictevans:

When you aim for ‘Gaudi’ but get ‘Cthulhu rising up from the depths to swallow the building as sacrifice to the elder gods’ [twitter.com]

# 2019/10/13 - 20:35 — original tweet by @benedictevans

I enjoy seeing the LED lights of modern sports cars blink in Top Gear’s slow-motion footage almost as much as Top Gear’s cinematographer does, but I can’t help thinking that long-exposure shots looked better when I was young 👴🏻

# 2019/10/13 - 18:07 — published on @ff00aa

In that case let’s hope it was officially touted to Chinese users as a new ever-so-desirable feature, and not foisted upon them without warning (but what are the odds if it was added in a point release?)

# 2019/10/13 - 17:36 — published on @ff00aa

How crazy is it that this went almost completely unnoticed at the time?

# 2019/10/13 - 17:26 — published on @ff00aa

It’s probably just for users in China, but it doesn’t cost much to disable Fraudulent Website Warning anyway out of principle.

# 2019/10/13 - 17:15 — published on @ff00aa

@matthew_d_green:

Also, can we assume that only users configured in the Mainland China region are having their data sent to Tencent? That warning is pretty damn broad.

# 2019/10/13 - 17:09 — original tweet by @matthew_d_green

@matthew_d_green:

Wait, Apple is sending URLs to Tencent?! [reclaimthenet.org]

# 2019/10/13 - 17:09 — original tweet by @matthew_d_green

I remember when I discovered Fusion 360 and fell in love with its promise. Two years later, they haven’t improved on any of the UI’s pain points and I hate it. But I need it, because it’s the only 3D modeling workflow I can wrap my head around, and I can’t afford Rhino.

# 2019/10/13 - 15:14 — published on @commandergaroo

Hier je me suis préparé un filtre photo noir et blanc pour les tristes mois d’hiver. Aujourd’hui il fait 25° 🤨︎

# 2019/10/13 - 13:39 — published on @garoo

L’article est sur le 11 ouais :) (Le Pro c’est pareil avec le zoom en plus)

# 2019/10/13 - 11:52 — published on @ff00aa

12 October

Art Plunge is worth it just for Mona Lisa

Seeing her up-close in VR — and very well recreated — might be the first time I’ve understood the fascination with her eyes and smile. (I’m incapable of “entering” a painting by my own means.)

# 2019/10/12 - 23:20 — published on @commandergaroo

@stroughtonsmith:

A must-read for prospective Catalyst developers; look at how much thought went into redesigning LookUp for Mac Catalyst, which as a result is one of the nicest Mac-like apps of the launch lineup [medium.com]

# 2019/10/12 - 23:08 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

Mais qu’est-ce que je fais de ma vie, moi. On monte une SSII ?

# 2019/10/12 - 22:48 — published on @garoo

Astrologaster (iOS) — 9/10

# 2019/10/12 - 20:46

It took me a bit too long to understand what I was doing, but I loved everything else about Astrologaster

The writing, sharp, funny, acerbic and sometimes delightfully vulgar; the visuals; the voice acting; the songs; the songs! the songs are incredible.

# 2019/10/12 - 20:44 — published on @commandergaroo

Nope not in a mood for a giant spider fuck this.

# 2019/10/12 - 19:26 — published on @commandergaroo

I’m enjoying Inmost, but of course I hate playing it on a touchscreen

I could pair a gamepad to my iPad, but then the 11” screen would be much farther away from me than I like. Yet it’d be weird buying on Steam a game I got ‘for free’ with Apple Arcade.

# 2019/10/12 - 16:39 — published on @commandergaroo

@JuddApatow:

Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China- hey and don’t mention that Turkey is bad. We sell a lot of watches there. And don’t mention Saudi Arabia murdering journalists- they love the iMac and don’t mention Russia—big iPad market. [buzzfeednews.com]

# 2019/10/12 - 16:33 — original tweet by @JuddApatow

Digital Photography Review: “iPhone 11’s Portrait Mode sets a high bar for the Pixel 4”

As much as I’ve hated the very idea of portrait mode, I must admit that these test shots all look really good.

# 2019/10/12 - 15:18 — published on @ff00aa

The Good Place 4x03 — 9/10

# 2019/10/12 - 15:09

@atlasobscura:

In Japan, the practice of folding chopstick wrappers into figurines is particularly widespread. So much so that six years ago, Yuki Tatsumi began collecting the little origami sculptures left behind, and now has around 15,000. [trib.al]

# 2019/10/12 - 10:36 — original tweet by @atlasobscura

@random_walker:

My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why “enterprise software” sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking about… baby clothes!

# 2019/10/12 - 01:14 — original tweet by @random_walker

Everyone complained about Reminders but no one mentioned that upgrading my phone to iOS 13 would make Shortcuts unavailable on my old device suck on iOS 12. Goddammit, Apple.

# 2019/10/12 - 00:50 — published on @garoocomplains

11 October

@SamuelHayat:

Le suprémacisme blanc tue, encore et encore. Ce n’est pas la seule idéologie à provoquer des attentats meurtriers ces dernières années. Mais c’est la seule à se voir accorder la possibilité de développer son discours sur toutes les plateformes, y compris la télévision, sans souci

# 2019/10/11 - 14:38 — original tweet by @SamuelHayat

10 October

The fun continues…

# 2019/10/10 - 23:16 — published on @ff00aa

I just love that Apple Pay now fails half the time on my iPhone because Apple didn’t bother to test on non-Face ID phones beyond “yup it runs.”

# 2019/10/10 - 21:41 — published on @garoocomplains

@sannewman:

Remember: A billionaire is just a billion dollars that has taken possession of a human body and is using it for purposes of murder.

# 2019/10/10 - 20:47 — original tweet by @sannewman

@roseveleth:

It’s wild to me that there aren’t more non-local reporters working on the PGE story — this is a perfect example of the future. Climate change + privatization & capitalism = millions of people without power, likely leading to serious danger to the most marginalized folks.

# 2019/10/10 - 20:45 — original tweet by @roseveleth

This is very cool and I’m sorry for any hypothetical user of Uniconsole who might be disappointed that I’ll never implement such a UI

# 2019/10/10 - 20:41 — published on @ff00aa

@jasonimms:

Ummmm Untitled Goose Game model on Thingiverse, with a magnet in the beak HELLO

[thingiverse.com]

# 2019/10/10 - 19:57 — original tweet by @jasonimms

The Great C (PC) — 6/10

The random jump cuts in Comfort mode are really distracting — but even the beautiful slow pans in Cinematic mode are a really bad use of VR. If you want to make a movie, make a movie.

# 2019/10/10 - 17:39

Funny, I’d never realized the obvious parallel between dynamic compression in pop music of the last thirty years and the more recent obsession for local contrast enhancement in photography (the pseudo-HDR effect, of which I suspect Deep Fusion is guilty)

# 2019/10/10 - 16:24 — published on @ff00aa

@danielpunkass:

Apple could have engineered their way out of this conundrum, the same way they engineered their way out of being liable for sharing private user data. Embracing some kind of user-facing side-loading solution would diminish the impact of Apple’s own authoritative power over users. [twitter.com]

# 2019/10/10 - 14:35 — original tweet by @danielpunkass

Mon pote le pigeon passe tellement de temps depuis quinze jours à me mater de la rembarde qu’il n’a même pas bougé quand j’ai ouvert la fenêtre

# 2019/10/10 - 14:32 — published on @garoo

@YseultCeirw:

• Is the cause of the mass extinction event we’re currently experiencing, and that 95% of people are completely unaware of or outright deny.

# 2019/10/10 - 14:19 — original tweet by @YseultCeirw

@YseultCeirw:

• naturally occurring, yet has a scent incomparable to any other natural substance

• pitch black liquid

• kills anything it touches

• using it to make anything kills everything it DOESN’T touch, but very slowly

• inexplicably addictive to the money-poisoned

# 2019/10/10 - 14:19 — original tweet by @YseultCeirw

@YseultCeirw:

Fairly certain that crude oil is a genuine eldritch horror.

• lied in wait in the Earth’s crust for literally millions of years

• made from the dead bodies of creatures nobody in recorded history has ever seen alive

• almost immediately granted us advanced technology

# 2019/10/10 - 14:19 — original tweet by @YseultCeirw

ThE fReE mArkEt wIlL sOrT iT aLL oUt 🤪︎

# 2019/10/10 - 09:28 — published on @garoo

@BuffTuffKRuff:

Like, to such a degree that when I was in school for writing they would give us a guide list of things that were and weren’t allowed in movies in China so we could write treatments that could be saleable there and therefore allow us to survive financially as movie writers

# 2019/10/10 - 02:20 — original tweet by @BuffTuffKRuff

@SanbornVR:

Woooo #VR

# 2019/10/10 - 02:19 — original tweet by @SanbornVR

9 October

“The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI”

The good side of Google’s obsession with usage metrics: a bunch of useful stats you can whip out at your next UI design meeting.

# 2019/10/09 - 22:28 — published on @ff00aa

There hasn’t been much buzz about the single-player campaign of Red Dead Redemption 2. Should I just wait until it’s finally half-price in a 2022 Steam sale if I don’t intend to spend much time in the online mode?

# 2019/10/09 - 21:04 — published on @commandergaroo

@deanputney:

Huge news. I found a new subreddit: [reddit.com]

# 2019/10/09 - 16:57 — original tweet by @deanputney

@ff00aa:

I just happened upon a Half-Life 2 screenshot and suddenly realized why playing with an iPhone 11’s ultra-wide camera in the store felt so trippy: with the fisheye distortion magicked away in post-processing, the phone turns reality into a first-person game.

# 2019/10/09 - 11:18 — original tweet by @ff00aa

I just happened upon a Half-Life 2 screenshot and suddenly realized why playing with an iPhone 11’s ultra-wide camera in the store felt so trippy: with the fisheye distortion magicked away in post-processing, the phone turns reality into a first-person game.

# 2019/10/09 - 11:17 — published on @ff00aa