Physical distancing and obsessive sanitation at schools is impossible. Now is the time for schools to prepare robust distance learning, close the technology gap, and meet our families’ basic needs…
— Read on medium.com/@harley.litzelman/we-cannot-return-to-campus-this-fall-1ad91b8a65e0
I suspect what Apple has done with the mouse pointer on iPadOS is going to get ripped off far and wide. It’s too natural, too obviously correct.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/06/panzarino-ipad-trackpad
Copied badly I suspect… No other system has the fluid UI work put into making this kind of thing possible.
Daring Fireball: ‘The Plan Is to Have No Plan’
May 5, 2020
How could anyone expect or hope that thousands of deaths a day, every day, could ever become normal? you might ask, because you are a caring person with a capacity for empathy.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan
Wake me up when Word starts flagging the use of Arial with “Did you mean to use Helvetica?” if you want to give Microsoft any credit at all for doing right by good typography.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/25/word-two-spaces
Daring Fireball: ‘Capitalists or Cronyists?’
April 18, 2020
The thing to remember is that if allowed to fail, the cruise ships won’t sink to the bottom of the ocean. The jobs won’t disappear. The companies will go into bankruptcy, existing shareholder equity will get wiped out, and new ownership will take over. A bailout won’t rescue the industry or the jobs — it will rescue the shareholders.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/18/capitalists-or-cronyists
Daring Fireball: Right-Wing Nuts Turn Against Bill Gates and Anti-Vaxxers Dig In
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/17/anti-gates-nuts
Daring Fireball: COBOL, Programming, and Coding
April 15, 2020
And, lastly, there’s the explosive growth in demand, which has led to many people doing it who aren’t any good at it. Code is merely a means to an end. Programming is an art and code is merely its medium. Pointing a camera at a subject does not make one a proper photographer. There are a lot of self-described coders out there who couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag.
— Read on daringfireball.net/2020/04/cobol_programming_coding
Brutal, but we need to look this square in the eye. A lot of this just seems politically unviable in the U.S. Especially so with a president who — despite spending over an hour on TV every single evening — has not spoken in even vague terms about any actionable plan whatsoever.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/10/klein-normalcy-plans
Google Stadia Now Free To Anyone With a Gmail Address – Slashdot
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/369398
Smells like desperation…
Daring Fireball: 2020 iPad Models Now Feature Hardware Microphone Disconnect:
This is the kind of attention to detail around privacy that defines using Apple hardware, and can only come from the deep integrations and control of design they have.
