Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy

Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh

Arc, the latest software inaccessible at launch    (2023.06.02)

After 35 years (and true of basically everything in which I take an interest), how I tire of repeating myself. Another rich software startup is about to blow it vis-à-vis accessibility. This time it’s Arc (some kind of browser), and if they do anything about accessibility it will involve not hiring me

Contempt    (2022.06.29)

Ben Sandofsky of Halide: Homophobe and blackmailer

Apple already is a repressive régime    (2021.09.06)

It was particularly risible to read that Apple’s surveillance mechanisms might be reused by some kind of authoritarian or repressive régime. Apple already is one of those. Its authoritarianism merely pleases the political biases of the far-left Apple press

Simpletons and slow children now have their own E‑mail software    (2021.07.21)

The great Jason Fried of Basecamp, author of so many bestsellers on usability and the futility of meetings at the office, charges you a hundred bucks for the worst E‑mail software in three decades. Hey.com is the IBM PCjr of electronic mail

Meet your Antifa Fitness+ trainers    (2020.09.29)

Stringy, scrawny, emaciated; every one of them halfway to an eating disorder; self-abnegating “fitness” obsession produces bodies they can do nothing with that they actually enjoy; harridans and drill-sergeants manqué(e)s who couldn’t squat one plate for five reps; anti-racism is always more important than getting you stronger

Don’t buy Apple or Macintosh RAM from Newegg or Nexim    (2020.04.13)

Nexim and Newegg are scammers. You heard it here first

Apple Store accessibility lawsuit (Robert Shaw vs. Apple)    (2020.02.20)

Robert Shaw, a wheelchair user, is suing Apple Canada in Ontario for an inaccessible work environment. I have these court documents and you don’t. I went and got them and you didn’t. I did research and published this article based on that research, and you did neither

iPhone type sizes in points    (2019.02.06)

I measured actual point sizes of type on an iPhone X

Folk UI    (2019.01.13)

User-interface conventions that individuals invented from scratch that went on to become actual norms.