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.
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Just about 10 minutes until the launch window opens, so now’s the time to tune in to the live feed.
This is the 50th anniversary of Apple Computer, and the sites you’d expect are publishing their love letters to Apple’s early products, including the Apple ][.As I was reading these articles and listening to a related podcast yesterday,...
Seen: Somehow this manages to be both nerdy in that only-in-San Francisco manner, and also thoroughly tasteless.
Sorry for so many links to Daring Fireball, but Gruber is on a roll this weekend.I sort of agree that Apple should have required apps to use the system player, but it would really have had to be customizable in a way that Apple doesn’t...
John Gruber, writing at Daring Fireball:But more and more it’s becoming clear that while Apple’s devotion to protecting user privacy remains as high as ever, their devotion to delivering the best possible user experience does not. Here’s...
★★★☆☆As I mentioned in my last post, we’ve been watching A Man on the Inside. The first season was very good: touching and well crafted, ★★★★☆. The second season is not nearly as charming, and already feels like it’s cruising and...
I just told my wife about the latest Netflix price increase and the Apple TV app thing, and she agreed to cancel! We’re currently watching A Man on the Inside, and we agreed that we’ll finish it off and then I get to make the...
Honestly, between the ever-increasing monthly prices and their complete refusal to be a good citizen on Apple platforms, let alone actively making their apps worse, Netflix makes me want to cancel so badly. It’s the very definition of...
Flighty was already a great app, but their new Airport Intelligence features are very timely. I love the dashboards on their website, complete with a “TV Mode” for putting a dashboard up in an easy-to-read format on a TV.
Xcode 26.4 is out. There’s a long list of fixed issues and improvements, but my favorite fixes the issue with Codex I posted the workaround for earlier.Fixed: When using external development tools that connect to Xcode, you may see...
The Punisher: One Last Kill is going to be released as a “Special Presentation” on May 12 on Disney+, right after the end of the second season of Daredevil: Born Again (which starts tonight).