Scott Hill
Scott Hill
Scott W. Hill
I believe that one should control one’s writing and photographs, and this site is my home on the web for those things. I frequently post them other places too, but they generally start here. Other platforms are ephemeral—as evidenced by the many broken links here to things I found interesting in the past, but which weren’t cared for by their publisher—so I try not to post elsewhere, except as a copy.
Latest Posts
John Gruber, on the question of why Claude’s Mac app is an “Electron clunker”:Finding out that one guy — who is a senior Electron maintainer — has led the teams for the desktop clients for Slack, Notion, and now Claude is like...
Casey Liss, responding to the recent Decoder episode where Nilay Patel interviewed Rivian CEO Wassym Bensaid, and of course, discussed Rivian’s decision to not offer CarPlay in its vehicles:CarPlay is optional. CarPlay is...
Philip Michaels, writing at Six Colors, on the topic of autoplaying previews in Apple TV apps:Should Apple impose some order on tvOS apps and require some degree of standardization when it comes to autoplay settings? Or should it go one...
Jack Loftus, at McSweeney’s:Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret...
George Thomas, writing at The Atlantic:Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered what conservative originalists have long been rooting for: overturning Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. That 90-year-old decision, which the...
Austin Parsons, writing at Car and Driver:The headlight design is functional and aesthetic, incorporating the low-beams, daytime running lights, side lights, and turn signals into a single unit. If the look is a little too on-the-nose...
The Supreme Court of the United States, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority:Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the...
Paul Kafasis:Past icons weren’t just more expressive. They were also more usable. Having distinct shapes provided a useful way to tell icons apart. Tahoe eliminates that cue by forcing everything into the same squircle, leaving color as...
Rory Mir and Cliff Braun, writing for the Electronic Frontier Foundation:Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has...
As much as I dislike The Hollywood Reporter’s website due to its shocking ad load and visual shitstorm, I enjoyed this post by James Hibberd.Ainsley and I saw Supergirl (★★☆☆☆) at its fan premiere event, and the take given in the article...
I was surprised and saddened to read of Om Malik’s passing. I’ve read his thoughts on technology on his blog, and followed his photography on Glass, where he was an early supporter. I’ll miss reading and seeing his point-of-view.
Good analysis on the reported M6 Pro/Max cancellation from Jason Snell at Six Colors:
John Gruber:But as things stand today, no platform in Apple’s portfolio came out of these price increases looking worse than Apple TV. It’s especially painful to think about people buying one now, at these prices, only to have their...
Jess Weatherbed, writing at The Verge:The Cupertino company will reportedly only release a base model M6 chip “as early as this year,” with the base M7 chip set to launch sometime in the first half of 2027. The M7 Pro and M7 Max are then...
It’s interesting that the just-introduced Apple price increases don’t include iPhones. I suspect that means that price increases for iPhone will be introduced with the new models in the fall.I normally recommend that people who find...