Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items(daringfireball.net)

247 points by epaga 4 months ago | 110 comments

James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock(daringfireball.net)

60 points by tosh 1 year ago | 39 comments

Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)(daringfireball.net)

162 points by SoKamil 2 years ago | 134 comments

The MacBook Neo(daringfireball.net)

603 points by etothet 7 months ago | 947 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball piece on Apple's MacBook Neo, tracing how iPhone A-series chip performance foreshadowed it.

Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement(daringfireball.net)

91 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 80 comments

Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts(daringfireball.net)

308 points by robenkleene 1 year ago | 177 comments

Free the Icons(weblog.rogueamoeba.com)

650 points by zdw 4 months ago | 240 comments

Rogue Amoeba blog post by Paul Kafasis arguing Apple should end its prohibition on custom shapes in macOS app icons.

It's hard to justify Tahoe icons(tonsky.me)

2231 points by lylejantzi3rd 9 months ago | 873 comments

Nikita Tonsky's blog post critiquing the menu icons added throughout macOS Tahoe and arguing they are hard to justify from a UI design perspective.

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design(mastodon.social)

684 points by lateforwork 9 months ago | 260 comments

A social media post showing Apple's Pages app icons in reverse chronological order, joking it resembles a designer's improving portfolio, with replies.

No more icons in every menu by default(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

449 points by riffraff 6 days ago | 275 comments

Blog post by Jim Nielsen noting Apple removed default icons from every menu item in macOS Golden Gate and updated its Human Interface Guidelines against the practice.

Tailscale's new macOS home(tailscale.com)

542 points by tosh 6 months ago | 289 comments

Tailscale blog post announcing a new macOS app interface that moves out of the menu bar to avoid being hidden by the MacBook notch.

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence(eclecticlight.co)

376 points by frizlab 10 months ago | 200 comments

A weekly column on The Eclectic Light Company blog by Howard Oakley reflecting on losing confidence in Apple and macOS.