Feature request: Airpause. Pause your spouse’s AirPods remotely instead of saying the same thing multiple times before realizing they can’t hear you.
Mike Davidson
@mikeindustries.com
Head of Design for Microsoft AI. Designed some other products you have probably used like Twitter (sorry!) and ESPN.com. Showerhead connoisseur and conscientious shoelace objector.
Imagine commissioning a 33-bedroom house and building only one extra bathroom across the entire thing.
The supply of exceedingly tiny violins has also hit an all-time low in New York.
mary childs@marychilds.bsky.social · last wk.““I think it’s unfair to pick on people...I pay condo fees, I pay real estate taxes…I go out & eat, I go to the theater, I go to movies, I spend money everywhere, I buy stuff. I mean, I am a profit center,” she said, estimating she spends around 3mo a year in New York. nypost.com/2026/07/28/u...
Yet another bizarre permutation of the term “out of pocket”. At this point, I am convinced people are just substituting the word “pocket” for any other word that appears after “out of”.
Fun little game. Guess the World Cup winner by different categories. I got Life Expectancy and Happiness right and CO2 emissions very very wrong. www.dataguessr.com/world-cup-20...
Dataguessr World Cup 2026 edition
Pick a metric, guess the champions, and see the knockout phase play out.
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Wrote a little about Om, a guy I will miss. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...
A Loving and Well-Loved Man » Mike Industries
A couple of weeks ago, one of the most unique people in our industry passed away. A quiet man of incredible volume, Om Malik was the person whose voice traveled only a few feet but always filled the r...
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Hooboy, that final sentence slays. Don't cheat. Read the whole thing. lizleatrice.substack.com/p/the-year-i...
Cheddar people: I have crossed the frontier into 5-year extra-aged, and I can confidently report that it is a bridge too far. 4-year is the sweet spot. Beechers if possible.
Words that have never been spoken: “This tastes over-buttered”.
Longest pizza day of the pizza year! Can’t believe I waited this long to experiment with pastrami.
Met my wife 20 years ago today. Started dating her 19 years ago today. Still can’t believe she is willing to associate herself with me but I will take it! 🙌
Honestly, the thing I've learned the most while Claudecoding is the important of "idempotency". A word I had never heard before, still don't know exactly what it is, or how to pronounce it, but am constantly reminded of its importance.
Imagine being a 17-year old kid at a show at the Triple Door, and the musician asks if anyone in the crowd can play any of his songs, and you are the one person to raise your hand, because you can play *1* song, written 5 years before you were even born. And then you go on stage, and you crush it. 🙌
I built an app over the last few weekends that is already my favorite app on my phone. I have about 15 people on the TestFlight but I kind of never want to release it to genpop. Has anyone ever released an app as “friendware”? Not accessible on the AppStore, but by private invitation only.
Can’t believe I haven’t turned on Stage Manager in MacOS until now. Worth it for the clean desktop alone!
Florence… at the past and future home of the Seattle Supersonics. 🙌
I am pretty sure the cute little thing where Claude Code tells you it's "going to be about 4 weeks of work" is a deliberate, time-release humble brag.
“It’s great seeing this design work at low fidelity.” “This is not low fidelity.” 💀
I wonder why Apple even allows apps to spawn app-store review prompts that don't use its built-in logic. It might be too hard to prevent. You could at least prevent it by policy and then ban for non-compliance. daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts
Link to: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ratings-and-reviews#Best-practices
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"This was an entirely unforeseeable usage of the tombstone functionality of Oregon Trail. If anything, our zeal for the social sharing of sensitive medical information was way ahead of its time."
Oregon Trail is Changing So That We Share Less of Your Private Dysentery Information
“If you died of dysentery between 1986 and 1993 while playing Oregon Trail, that information was likely shared with your cousins, neighbors, or other persons...
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Haven’t been much of a Gatorade fan since the days of glass bottles, but this Lower Sugar stuff is really good. Only 50 calories for 28 ounces, nice mild flavor, no gross aftertaste. Could even dilute it down another 25% if you wanted.
"Everything that can be figured out based on disparate clues scattered across different documents *will* be figured out, in the next few years." www.thediff.co/archive/long...
Longreads + Open Thread
Religion, Reading, Bugs, Japan, Science, IPOs, Barbell Portfolios
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New favorite protein bars. 16g protein, 160 calories, 6g sugar and no other sweeteners. Tastes like the biggest marshmallow you ever ate. All flavors good. a.co/d/0bu0jJJY
melō protein bars (6 count, Sampler Pack)- high protein, low sugar, fluffy marshmallow-like center, gluten free snack with no artificial sweeteners
Amazon.com : melō protein bars (6 count, Sampler Pack)- high protein, low sugar, fluffy marshmallow-like center, gluten free snack with no artificial sweeteners : Health & Household
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"What Carter did in his speech was something rare in the annals of democratic government: he confronted the people with the truth—about his own failings, about the reality of the world around them, and most importantly about themselves." (via @anildash.com) www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...
After a Dark Week, Americans Should Turn to Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech
Carter was panned at the time and long after, but has been vindicated.
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