You get your takeout in a nice brown paper bag. As you’re folding it up to recycle it later, you see the bold black stamp on the bottom: “ULINE”. You open up a web link you found online to read an interesting article. It’s at Substack.com. You are buying a cool new t-shirt to support a favoured podcaster. The shopping cart opens and you see it’s a Shopify link. You are reading your feeds and di... [Read More]

Today, Ben McCarthy and I are launching Indigo. It’s a full-featured client for both Mastodon and Bluesky, available on iPhone, iPad and macOS. Go get it on the App Store ! At the time we began work on this app in the fall of 2024, there was a consensus opinion that you couldn’t combine these two networks. Two text-based social networks, each with their own distinct characters (both in terms of t... [Read More]

I can’t explain to you how angry I am right now. They’ve taken the thing I love most and perverted it. They’ve perverted everything. The computers. The Internet. The glorious pocket computer. They used to be loaded with possibility. Now they’re a hard-wire, extracting cash from every spare waking moment. And for those of us who build software, we’ve found ourselves increasingly at the mercy of a... [Read More]

I was listening to the latest episode of The Talk Show , where John Gruber and Stephen Hackett were discussing the way Apple treats developers on its platforms. In the final segment of the podcast, they were talking about Fortnite’s return to the App Store, and segued to a larger dicussion of developers’ increasingly fraught relationship with Apple. It was particularly amusing to hear this chat b... [Read More]

I hate to complain, but I hit a breaking point tonight. While working on my app in Xcode, I ran into this super-common error (in case the image above is broken or something, it’s the “The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions” error). Again. And the thing you need to know about this error is that it’s a red... [Read More]

Hey Elon. It’s me, Aaron Vegh. You won’t read this, but I’m going to write it anyway. You are the wealthiest human on the planet. You will appear in history books. I am a modest technologist living a normal life in a mediocre country. I will be forgotten shortly after I die. So this is a silly exercise; the asymmetry between us is colossal. But here’s the thing. You were doing so well! And now,... [Read More]