Tom 🚢

I don’t understand why Apple uses UPS to ship expensive build to order devices. The most enraging incompetent carrier of them all. I’ve had only bad experiences with international shipping with them in the last 20 years. And once again, it’s been a real pain. Use DHL or FedEx. Anything but UPS.

release notes are the one marketing channel apple can't throttle. "bug fixes and improvements" is a confession that you gave up.

nobody downloads your app because of your roadmap. they download it because one screenshot answered the exact problem they had at 11pm.

i used to think marketing was the gross part. shipping in silence is grosser. nobody ever bought an app out of respect for how quiet the launch was.

My timeline is just SEO guides. X algo really turned to shit eh?

the model picker is the new settings page nobody asked for. just make the default one good and stop making me do homework before i can ask a question.

agents don't fail loudly. they fail politely, in complete sentences, while doing the wrong thing with total confidence. the log reads like a crime scene with good grammar.

every ai subscription quietly lowering limits while raising prices is just cable tv with tokens. we speedran the whole enshittification cycle in 18 months.

consulting pays for the indie apps. the indie apps keep me sane enough to consult. it's not a portfolio, it's a closed ecosystem of spite and invoices.

having a kid while building solo teaches you the real roadmap. everything takes 3x longer, and a 20 minute nap window is your new sprint planning.

every browser wants to be an operating system now. i want mine to open the page, shut up, and use less memory than the page itself.

Arc was such a great browser made by the worse vultures to ever exist in the valley. Good riddance. And whatever the browser company will come up next (like Dia) I swear to never even try. Neither should you. I’ve built my own browser (lookup bosk on GitHub)

the 30% cut wouldn't sting if the store actually sold. paying commission to a mall that hides your shop in the basement is the part nobody defends out loud.

if an app phones home before it shows me my own data, that order of operations tells me who the real customer is.

the most private database is the one that was never built. every server feature i skip is a breach that can't happen.

deleting your account should delete your data. if there's a 90 day retention window and a support ticket involved, you never owned it. you rented it.

i trust a file format i can open in 20 years more than a company i can email today. companies get acquired. text files don't.

The production release version of the new Siri is completely broken and useless. It used to be not working great and a bit dumb but it was fast but now it’s just horrible all over.

Meta Muse made me become such a cuck for the Zuck. This is the ultimate virtual assistant killer. The amount of work it does for me every hour, from ordering groceries to redacting a document based on random notes I give it, generating a flowchart of the 20 last years worth of lastfm listens I have logged, checking if my MacBook has been shipped yet, etc. I stopped my Hermes agent the day I started using Muse.

Ordering a built to order MacBook from Apple is such a hype killer. Buy a new shiny machine and wait a month to get it. That’s horrible! I feel like it’s 2006 and I’m waiting for UPS to deliver my first MacBook all over again.