Bits

Let me have a word or two on iOS 13, especially the way it was released to the public, and what this means for developers: It's a mess. It was a moving target from WWDC up to release, down to 13.1, and it's still moving.

— Ulysses

I love this honest retrospective.

The Lucas Effect is wild creativity with reckless abandon. It's not knowing how to edit your story, not realizing when you've gone too far — or if you've crammed too many characters and subplots into one story.

— MAEKAN

Everyone needs an editor.

We are all battling these devices which are fine-tuned through unbelievable quantities of big data and all this design thinking to hack into our impulsive systems: quick rewards, quick social validation, pretty candy-colored icons.

— Elemental

All of the trailers for SHANGRI-LA, the Rick Rubin documentary, look great. Can't wait to dig in and see if there are principles worth incorporating in my day-to-day routine. https://www.sho.com/shangri-la

Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once.

— Rob Pike

The internet is edgeless; there's real beauty to that, but there's also great danger. And if you're starting any kind of internet or internet-adjacent project in 2019, you gotta be careful about it.

— Robin Sloan

What goes around.

Yaki in Central London.

Manhattan Beach waves from a few weeks ago.

From last week's departure out of LAX.

From last week's flight departure out of SFO.

Style is to be simple.

— Elsa Peretti

What must you change to realize your life's work?

From the first leg of last night's journey.

From last night's flight to Houston. Saw a lightning storm during landing. 🌩

Riles at a year and a half.

Sea plane docking station. Shot in Vancouver last week.

A delicious dinner in Vancouver from a week ago.

We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

— Salman Rushdie

Last Sunday.