Marco Arment

Developer of the Overcast app on iOS and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast. Powered by coffee and an unreasonable amount of Phish.

Blog: https://marco.org/
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App: Overcast (npub10ex…f560)

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2026-06-27 03:31:41 UTC

May we all strive to live a life more like Om’s, and inspire anything close to this kind of eulogy when we go.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om

2026-05-07 15:56:50 UTC

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Is this going to be an ongoing thing?
I'd love to use it to help keep AI slop from overwhelming Overcast’s search ranking.

2026-04-01 18:04:15 UTC

A letter to John Ternus: https://marco.org/2026/04/01/letter-to-john-ternus

2026-03-29 21:44:19 UTC

RE: https://podcastindex.social/@js/116313570148556049
OMG it’s my entire childhood!
Donatos was the most common pizza served at school and events growing up, but if you really want the best version of this style I had, it’s at Rubino’s in Bexley, which I’m delighted to see is still there: https://maps.app.goo.gl/miY45Jb6BMHhN52H9?g_st=ic
A LAN party of Total Annihilation with my friends and a stack of Rubino’s pepperoni pizzas was a fantastic time.
#note1v5u…zfrr

2026-03-26 21:10:29 UTC

Let's all come together as a community and help @npub1z98…le0l through this difficult time.
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/

2026-03-18 20:23:21 UTC

Transcripts in Overcast!
This was so much work. I can't believe I've finally gotten it into beta.
https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1rxf5br/testflight_build_1151_first_beta_with_transcripts/

2026-03-13 01:54:22 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonkit/116218998603989170
I haven't read it.
Tim Cook doesn't deserve my attention.
#note1369…8jzw

2026-02-24 18:16:13 UTC

"Updating", huh? What a word choice. I wonder in which direction it's updating!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/126/972/002/916/267/original/7698a598f0806022.png

2026-02-23 04:02:37 UTC

I lasted as long as I could without updating my main Mac to Tahoe.
But now that the latest Xcode beta requires it, I'm ceding defeat.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/117/953/129/838/703/original/aea4016e98c10ae2.jpeg

2026-02-20 04:51:54 UTC

Another comically basic bug in Tahoe's TV.app: if you remove a download from this menu, you cannot remove any other downloads from this screen (because the menu item won't appear in their context menus!) until you navigate to a different section, then back to Downloaded.
I really have to wonder if anyone at Apple uses this app…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/101/159/978/035/999/original/03c1858b90555963.png

2026-02-02 21:46:18 UTC

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kevinrenskers/115995694056021778
"I would never buy a Tesla, because I don’t want to drive a car built by a fascist. Many people think like me. Apple is dangerously close to suffering the same fate.”

2026-02-01 23:14:59 UTC

RE: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/115985224639778868
Holy shit. Bravo.
This — ALL of it — is worth your time.
#note1dnu…qz6j

2026-01-27 16:13:51 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@BucciaBuccia/115967227105869337
Of course not.
The Democrats have a strong track record of loudly campaigning against Republican-administration escalations of overzealous law enforcement, privacy invasion, and civil-rights erosion, but then leaving them in place forever.
#note17ur…y8z5

2026-01-27 12:33:01 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420
I would never travel to a country that required this of me unless it was absolutely necessary.
I can’t blame anyone for making the same decision once this comes to pass.
(And it’s inevitable. Even if this particular version doesn’t happen, it’ll happen. We’ve been heading down this road for a while.)
#note187g…wv22

2026-01-25 17:07:06 UTC

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So far, I can't get this app to actually skip any ads in my testing. Can you?

2026-01-06 00:32:54 UTC

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FWIW, I was never able to get Teleport to let me access any of the target network's internal devices, no matter what I did.

2026-01-05 19:00:37 UTC

"Apple [UI design] took on an impossible task… And even if the premise was solid, I still wish I could say: they did the best they could, given the goal. But that’s not true either: they did a poor job consistently applying the metaphors and designing the icons themselves.”
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
Yup. Tahoe's redesign, perfectly summarized: self-inflicted problems, executed poorly, contradicting their own stated principles.
Good riddance to its DRI. Fingers crossed for a better macOS 27.

2025-12-10 13:58:58 UTC

I didn't realize that Hetzner had expanded to the US. And their prices are WAAAAYYY cheaper than Linode’s now.
(Turns out that charging 20% higher prices for the same resources over ~5 years in the web-hosting business makes you pretty easy to beat.)
Seriously looking at Hetzner now. Any experiences running medium-scale applications there, like maybe 20 server instances with ~a terabyte of databases?
Long-term reliability?
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/12/09/moving-from-linode-to-hetzner/

2025-11-17 13:28:09 UTC

Stumped by this one. Setting up an iPad with iCloud restore, and none of the apps are downloading automatically. Tapping one brings this up.
I'm on my Wi-Fi network, other connectivity works… and while this iPad does have cellular, no plan has ever been activated on it yet.
Reboots and Reset Network Settings haven't fixed it. iPadOS 26.1. Tapping "Download" immediately downloads the item over Wi-Fi.
Anyone ever see this? Any ideas?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/565/270/421/830/266/original/bcd821a3981d7a99.png

2025-11-07 19:24:42 UTC

After a decade, [@_Davidsmith](https://mastodon.social/@_Davidsmith ) and I have published the final episode of Under The Radar.
We're incredibly proud of our ten-year catalog of 30-minute discussions on development, marketing, monetization, work/life balance, and mental health for app developers.
We've heard from so many of you already (thanks!), and the show also brought incredible value to David and me, for both our businesses and our friendship.
We had a great run! Thanks for listening, everyone.
https://www.relay.fm/radar

2025-11-06 14:32:54 UTC

Thank you for your purchase, we will now email you literally every day, somehow, because there is so much news in the world of our shirts that you need a daily briefing

2025-11-03 13:43:41 UTC

Every few years, I have to sign into AWS to do some minor thing, and there are 40 new levels of complexity to basic tasks, scary new terms and settings on everything that I don't want to touch, it turns out the one thing I needed doesn't exist anymore, and now I need to first create a user management system to set up assignment roles to tag my management assets so I can define an access policy for the one goddamn setting I was looking for

2025-11-02 22:46:26 UTC

9 AM: This is awesome! I feel great! I love this DST change!
5 PM: shit

2025-10-30 23:47:05 UTC

The "Apple's Values" section at the end is striking. (@npub13nt…94ay)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/apple-results-holiday-dunks-and-questions-dodged/
If you think Cook will say whatever he needs to say to please the current administration, but doesn't really believe it himself…

2025-10-09 20:39:24 UTC

LOL, we're asking for tips for phone-case vendors now?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/346/136/127/497/686/original/f8258b43a3fb31fd.png

2025-10-06 19:50:15 UTC

“OpenAI and Ive [are] working on a device roughly the size of a smartphone that users would communicate with through a camera, microphone and speaker. One person suggested it might have multiple cameras.”
So… like… a phone?
“…designed to sit on a desk or table but can also be carried around by the user.”
So… like… a phone?
“…sensors would gather data throughout the day that would help to build its virtual assistant’s ‘memory.’”
So… like… a phone?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/openai-jony-ive-struggle-with-technical-details-on-secretive-new-ai-gadget/

2025-10-05 02:33:30 UTC

“Clarity and structure are sacrificed for the illusion of simplicity offered by a monochromatic haze of an interface.”
God, @npub1erw…50mm can write.
https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-liquid-glass/

2025-10-03 11:46:22 UTC

Glad to see Apple's leaders showing so much courage.
I'm sure their founders, and the historical heroes they love to quote on their homepage on important dates, would've been so proud of the courage and values they practice today.
https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple

2025-09-27 15:12:18 UTC

LOL
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/276/902/132/979/786/original/339c211528db87d5.jpeg

2025-09-22 19:12:35 UTC

Lost all of my Safari tabs in my phone transition.
I guess all of those Instagram-ad shirts and jackets I was thinking about will have to wait until next year.
(Who am I kidding… I'll see them again within 8 hours.)

2025-09-19 17:29:11 UTC

Someday there'll be a heist-movie plot in which the crew takes advantage of the 2-hour window that everyone’s iPhones are busy transferring to new iPhones.

2025-09-09 17:15:40 UTC

Maybe we can all write letters to Tim about how his support for the Trump administration is affecting our lives while we wear our Apple Watches.

2025-09-08 23:57:35 UTC

George Takei is a national treasure.
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115170126496023478

2025-09-07 14:35:15 UTC

As we head into iPhone-event week, let's celebrate the hard work by all of the people who made these products happen.
And let's not forget the shameless Trump-suckass CEO at the top, who constantly gives the middle finger to everyone in his own company, and the very foundations of our country, that this administration is actively committing violence and waging war against.
https://mastodon.green/@gcluley/115162918845987945

2025-09-01 04:03:47 UTC

Dye’s “consistency” poorly attempts to solve a problem no Mac users had, by radically redesigning the Mac to be utterly unlike itself, carelessly discarding decades of thoughtful design, function, and delight without bothering to understand any of it, and lacking adequate resources to replace it with anywhere near the quality and consideration that it once had.
It’s the sad conclusion of macOS’ takeover, under Tim Cook, by people who seem to kinda hate the Mac.
https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115124814890741413

2025-08-14 15:04:05 UTC

It’s naive to believe Cook can ever satisfy Trump for more than a day. It will never be enough. It never is, for anyone.
There is no lasting peace between Trump and anyone. Once you placate him, the only way to stay in his good grace is to continually ramp it up. You're always one arbitrary bad mood away from him turning on you and ripping your head off, no matter what you've done for him in the past.
It's unwinnable. Tim Cook sold Apple's soul for ten minutes of peace.
https://toot.community/@methodphoto/115026948821298114

2025-08-06 23:30:19 UTC

So what are everyone’s excuses for Tim Cook’s behavior this time?
Wake up. He’s an overt Trump supporter, and has been the entire time.

2025-08-05 21:36:45 UTC

YESSSSS the Select button in Mail is back
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/978/311/422/937/447/original/1eda712786ecc426.jpeg

2025-08-02 15:05:39 UTC

I'm so proud of my kid, even when he has to learn a valuable lesson…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/959/786/647/125/029/original/890052be8fb848ed.jpeg

2025-07-30 13:44:51 UTC

I don't want to seem like I'm nitpicking too much, but the "Hold This Call?” UI needs another pass.
The small "Hold” button is nearly touching the needlessly tiny dismiss (✕) button, which only seems about 24pt wide.
This will be error-prone for lots of people in practice. Opposite actions should not be represented by tiny, immediately neighboring touch targets.
I know it's a small thing, but it's the kind of thing that has me worried that institutional UI talent is drained or marginalized.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/942/481/991/935/385/original/5cb00975c58793ca.png

2025-07-22 18:54:47 UTC

Apple should've held Liquid Glass back until next summer, after much more internal testing and editing.
How are we supposed to design our apps for a constantly moving target?
How are *they*?

2025-07-21 17:33:08 UTC

Great news: Instapaper will replace the (dead) Pocket integration on Kobo e-readers! https://blog.instapaper.com/post/789685899750424576/instapaper-rakuten-kobo-integration

2025-07-10 14:25:14 UTC

Alan Dye doesn’t design UI.
He hides it.
https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/114829148037318202

2025-07-05 15:18:11 UTC

Honestly, this is making Terminal (and Safari) in Tahoe VERY hard for me to use.
Tabs in Tahoe are extremely difficult to distinguish from each other and from the active tab.
I've never switched away from Safari, and I've never investigated third-party terminal apps, but if this ships in the fall, I'll most likely need to do both. And I really, really don't want to.
Please, Apple, fix your design. Computers aren't passive "content" viewers — they're tools.
https://www.manton.org/2025/07/05/minor-nitpick-in-macos-tahoe.html
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/801/291/256/205/290/original/b5487845b14d1304.png

2025-07-01 15:54:02 UTC

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You may ask, “How many people could this possibly affect?”
Well…
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/778/782/967/403/724/original/323fb412ce233f26.jpeg

2025-07-01 15:48:27 UTC

Liquid Glass’ blurred content everywhere is especially cruel to those of us who use reading glasses or progressives.
The reflex to seeing blurry text on our phones is to adjust our sight angle or distance to sharpen it. But, of course, it’s not our fault, doesn’t sharpen, and just causes eyestrain.
Text on my phone should never be blurry.

2025-06-24 18:09:46 UTC

True. But that's true of every big fandom.
Google's been doing *wildly* unethical things for years, and most nerds never called them out because they made great tech, it worked well, and we liked the nerdy ethos that the founders had.
Like Apple, that ethos left a long time ago, but it's hard for us to stop believing it. We *want* to believe, because we're fans!
https://urusai.social/@nazokiyoubinbou/114739279452257744

2025-06-24 14:12:35 UTC

This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.
Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?
Oh wait, that’s already what happens.
Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.
They truly have no standards anymore.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386

2025-06-17 18:55:10 UTC

The tab bar is comically unreadable.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/700/222/744/531/816/original/549eae0aa1b4d760.png

2025-06-17 14:06:25 UTC

I already have as many users on iOS 26 as I do on iOS 17.
Developer beta 1.
🤣

2025-06-10 17:13:20 UTC

We've known for decades that translucency in UIs looks really cool, but is extremely difficult to design in a way that works with arbitrary content across versatile situations.
With the glass-redesign rumors, many of us thought, “If anyone can do it, it's Apple! They must've finally solved it."
They haven’t.
It still looks cool in some contexts, and utterly fails in others.

2025-06-09 21:11:30 UTC

First swear word in Apple's official documentation? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/speechtranscriber/transcriptionoption/etiquettereplacements
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/655/460/498/240/943/original/d5cb90a15fa7ff24.png

2025-06-09 18:03:49 UTC

CLIPBOARD HISTORY

2025-06-09 17:46:19 UTC

shit, I'm screwed
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/654/653/634/631/233/original/f5e35766eacfd12d.png

2025-06-09 17:18:57 UTC

This looks awesome as long as you don't need to read any of the text in the glass blobs with stuff behind them

2025-05-08 21:13:53 UTC

Not new (2023), but this exemplifies Apple’s culture of arrogance and entitlement.
By their logic, the local electric company “facilitates” a large portion of my Apple-device use. They should claim that they created the platform that lets Apple devices exist, and demand a third of their revenue.
What about my ISP? Cellular provider? Router manufacturer? The wires in my walls? The pizza place down the street, for fueling my body as I type?
Institutional delusion.
From: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/appfigures-apple-made-over-10b-from-us-app-store-comissions-last-year/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/474/275/872/481/737/original/2c25c1a96e6d1e06.jpeg

2025-04-16 12:20:36 UTC

There is no “safety in numbers” with Apple’s IAP demands — at least not until you're the size of Uber/Meta.
The entire market of podcast apps outside of Apple/Spotify is peanuts to Apple.
They’d crush us all without a second thought if they thought we weren't giving them every cent they *deserve* (in their view) for graciously enabling our businesses to exist (in their view) that provide zero value to their platform beyond fees we pay (in their view).
Tim Cook is great
https://bne.social/@james/114345835921533046

2025-04-05 00:53:37 UTC

Saw the Minecraft movie with the family. If you know the game or have a kid who does…
GO. See it THIS WEEKEND.
It was so, so stupid… and so, so fun.
Everything was loudly cheered by an entire theater of nerdy middle schoolers, occasionally yelling out smart, funny one-liners. It was like this generation’s Rocky Horror.
I’m so glad I got to be a part of it. (Really.) I was laughing so hard — at and with the audience — that I was crying.

2025-03-23 15:53:20 UTC

Holy shit, @npub1g63…ezt9 is committing another 50 MILLION DOLLARS to Guaranteed Minimum Income projects: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not-taken-is-guaranteed-minimum-income/
We need more people in the world like Jeff Atwood and his family.

2025-03-19 22:24:06 UTC

Men with hair loss: let me save you all some trouble.
Rogaine and Propecia work a little, for a while. What works a lot better, and lasts forever, is confidence.
Don't try to hide it or reverse it. You can’t and won’t. Shave it or buzz it short, and just own it. Rock it!
Confidence in yourself is infinitely more attractive than any hairdo.
https://mastodon.online/@jon_alper/114190425264463146

2025-02-11 13:11:48 UTC

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Perhaps nothing encapsulates Apple's decline in user respect more than the transformation of the Settings app on ALL of their platforms into an advertising vehicle.
Which is impressive, considering it's competing with App Store search ads and using notifications for marketing.

2025-02-11 13:08:16 UTC

“Image Playground Is Here”
Where? Right there, in that unadorned label in the decontented new Settings app that looks like a rendering bug?
Is that supposed to be a promo? What happens if I click on it? [click]
Oh my god.
Do any UI designers still work at Apple? Can we get some of them assigned to the Mac, please?
OK, how do I get rid of this terrible promo in the sidebar?
i have to open image playground, don't i
what is happening over there
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/985/407/461/142/463/original/d9079ed770d1c1db.png
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2025-01-31 03:15:41 UTC

I don't know if this will be useful to literally any other people, but:
If you're having trouble with audio sync from your Apple TV to an external soundbar or sound system:
Turn on Match Format and Match Dynamic Range in the Apple TV's video settings.
I don't know why this makes a difference on my LG C7 OLED, but it REALLY, REALLY does.

2025-01-26 15:59:41 UTC

“Again, there’s Tim, figuratively clothing himself in the quotes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday. Clothing Apple’s home page in it. Then showing up to Trump’s inauguration like the words of MLK can do the work that he will not.”
https://duck.haus/@joesteel/113890308109057606

2025-01-24 19:50:05 UTC

is Tim C. also a Trump supporter

2025-01-23 15:15:36 UTC

“A rotten Apple: Tim Cook’s betrayal of LGBTQ+ rights”
https://ryanleetaylor.com/blog/a-rotten-apple-tim-cook-betrayal-of-lgbtq-rights
> “If Apple’s leadership is willing to compromise on fundamental human rights, can I, in good conscience, continue to be part of that ecosystem? This question now haunts me, and I suspect I’m not alone.”
You're not. I’m suddenly seeing statements to this effect, public and private, more than ever.
Supporting Apple has never felt morally difficult… until now.
That's entirely on Tim Cook.
It's time for him to go.

2025-01-03 23:51:07 UTC

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Is it that hard to believe?
Why do we think Tim Cook couldn't possibly support Trump, while all of these other billionaires support him for their own billionaire self-interests?
Why do we keep making excuses for him?
Why do we keep making excuses for Apple?

2025-01-03 23:49:20 UTC

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Have you considered the possibility that Tim Cook just… supports Trump?
Like so many other mega-rich CEOs?

2025-01-03 23:48:11 UTC

Watch everyone now bend over backward to justify this as some sort of forced move that Cook HAD to do.
Tim Cook, reluctantly supporting Trump, because it's the savvy move for Apple…
Tim Cook… reluctantly supporting Trump…
Tim Cook… supporting Trump…
Are we getting it yet?
https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/113766618970266062

2024-12-27 03:08:25 UTC

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I'd say podcast tech "moves very slowly", but even that's generous — podcast tech hardly moves at all.
But that's a GOOD THING!
Most efforts to move podcast tech "forward" have failed due to insufficient adoption. But most would’ve meant more potential for platform lock-in and increased ad-tech and tracking possibilities, either by design or as unintended consequences.
Podcasts' technical simplicity is not a problem to be solved — it's a defense from platform vultures and ad-tech assholes.

2024-12-27 03:00:25 UTC

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I've never thought to try it again.
The same benefits and risks would still apply. CBR is INCREDIBLY wasteful for podcasts, but I bet lots of platforms still don't seek properly in long VBR MP3s.
One solution could be adding multi-enclosure-format support to the podcast ecosystem, where we offer modern clients a list of formats and let them pick more advanced ones if they support them.
But I bet ZERO big DAI platforms, and therefore zero popular podcasts, would support it.

2024-12-27 02:52:49 UTC

It was still MP3, but I tried VBR encoding.
In 2016, I wrote: https://marco.org/2016/08/15/vbr-mp3-plea
ATP: https://atp.fm/182
It worked! The following year's Apple OSes (iOS 11+) implemented support for all three VBR-seek-table standards — MLLT, VBRI, and Xing/LAME-tag.
ATP: https://atp.fm/228
But when I later tried releasing ATP in VBR with all three tags, we got so many problem reports from Android users that I went back to CBR after one episode:
https://atp.fm/244
https://ioc.exchange/@whophd/113717975279161741

2024-12-18 14:57:06 UTC

I disagree. We on the “broadcast” media often underestimate how many people don’t participate.
I keep stats on the most popular Overcast link-share destination apps. What do you think tops the list?
Not Facebook or X or Instagram or Snapchat.
It’s Messages, by a MILE, then mostly other private-messaging apps! The first public-social-network app is #12 on the list, averaging only 1% as many shares as Messages.
Private messaging is FAR more popular than social media.
https://mastodon.nl/@vmachiel/113674338611670947

2024-12-18 14:31:03 UTC

Love the idea of Mozi, and I sympathize all too much with Ev's rationale in creating it.
https://ev.medium.com/making-social-social-again-0126fa5c6ce8

2024-12-09 22:06:11 UTC

Trump ruined my red hat.
Elon ruined my Tesla.
Enough is enough. I refuse to let this guy ruin my Peak Design Everyday backpack.

2024-11-22 00:35:01 UTC

I celebrated Black Friday by raising my price for the first time in 8 years. THERE ARE NO RULES!
https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/113523761966262192

2024-11-19 17:33:22 UTC

The bar is always fun at 9 PM.
But that bar never stops serving, and more people just keep coming in the door.
Just wait until 4 AM.
https://hachyderm.io/@callin/113510753807513632

2024-11-19 17:31:11 UTC

I've been around this block a few times.
I have NEVER seen any kind of cross-posting work well.
Anyone who thinks it's working for you: it's not.
Cross-posting spews your messages into contexts they're not optimized for and communities that you're not really engaging with.
You get out of a social network what you put into it. If you're not really getting to know each place and tailoring your engagement to it, you're not really there, and it shows.
https://mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/113510638785676923

2024-11-15 15:31:06 UTC

"I deactivated both my personal account and my app's account from Twitter two years ago, which significantly improved productivity and morale, reduced distractions and PR risks, and hasn't had any noticeable effect on my reach or business metrics.”
https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/113487634886845014

2024-11-07 18:40:19 UTC

In perfect unison.
Does anyone still think their buddy Tim Cook is any better than the rest of them?
Fuck them all.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/i_wonder

2024-11-05 14:45:52 UTC

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I like post-sabbatical Stephen

2024-11-05 14:30:33 UTC

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Is this one smoking a firework?!

2024-10-29 13:22:13 UTC

Yesterday I wrote an "if case let" for an enum with an associated value successfully by myself without a web search and it was by far the biggest win of the day

2024-10-11 01:51:01 UTC

For reference, for the people saying I shouldn't raise my price:
Pocket Casts: $40/year
The Podcast App: $37/year
Castbox: $35/year
Castro: $25/year
…
Overcast: $10/year
I have no problem telling everyone this now: I'm raising my price in the near future.
I've only waited this long because I wanted to give you some new stuff at the same time!

2024-10-10 23:58:08 UTC

Upgrading to Sequoia, for some reason, finally broke my old, pre-subscription use of Fantastical.
(It's not that I don't like the app… I'm just perfectly happy with the functionality of the old version and don't need any of the newer features.)
In completely unrelated news, I am not charging enough for my subscription.

2024-10-10 12:28:47 UTC

OMG I'm having so much fun watching/listening to each track
https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/113278499575002925

2024-09-30 01:44:05 UTC

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Yes

2024-09-29 16:22:48 UTC

I wrote an entire XML generator with result-builders just so I could do this
https://gist.github.com/marcoarment/85600b7fdc73fada7c666b82dd81be2b
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/221/760/746/335/148/original/b168d53f5673271b.png

2024-09-21 14:51:56 UTC

I have LOTS of thoughts already about the Camera Control, how third-party vs. Apple cases handle it, the new Photo Styles, and the Watch Series 10.
These are not boring releases at all.
Saving it all for @npub1f30…d2kp on Monday night.

2024-09-19 23:54:53 UTC

Tried a new dog groomer and I thought the blueberry scrub was ridiculous but now my dog is happy and smells like blueberries and it's delightful

2024-08-30 14:37:37 UTC

Damn, AnandTech is stopping publication:
“Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again. So, the time has come for AnandTech to wrap up its work, and let the next generation of tech journalists take their place within the zeitgeist.”
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell

2024-08-24 13:14:12 UTC

Thread.
Trust me.
https://www.threads.net/@chriswelch/post/C-8LF4BOSAP