Episode 616: A Right Way to Do Things

Daniel talks about his recent updates to Black Ink, for both Mac and iOS. He and Manton compare notes about updating icons for iOS 18 to support Dark and Tinted home screen modes. They talk about application versioning, again!, and the virtue of choosing to do things one way sometimes just because it’s right. They react to recent speculation about the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin, and whether it’s responsible for anybody to make such allegations. Finally, they talk a bit more about AI, what it means for the future of programming, and it’s impact on the world’s approach to manufacturing energy.

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Links:

Furbo.org – Home page of Craig Hockenberry.

Iconfactory – Craig’s app-development and design company.

Retrobatch – Mac-based app for image workflow automation by Flying Meat.

Gus Mueller – Founder/developer of Flying Meat.

You Know It’s There – Steve Jobs quote in a 1985 Playboy interview about craftsmanship in furniture.

Really Satoshi Nakamoto? – Article by CoinMarketCap about the HBO documentary alleging his true identity.

Nostr – Cryptocurrency-heavy social network.

ChatGPT – The well-known large language model AI service.

Claude.ai – https://claude.ai/

Artifacts – A post from Anthropic about Claude.ai’s Artifacts feature.

Canvas – OpenAI’s new feature, similar to Artifacts.

Three Mile Island Will Reopen – NPR article about the reopening of the famous nuclear power plant.

Three Mile Island Accident – US Government breakdown of the 1979 incident at the plant.