“I’m a shame-driven developer”
Found listening to this 2-hour episode of The Talk Show podcast with Daniel Jakut very enjoyable, and more thoughtful than just “bitching about Tahoe.”
One particular thing that stood out to me was a discussion of shame and embarrassment and pride that all come with shipping software. And looking to Apple itself for direction that the company is not really providing, as many of their apps are not using the new Liquid Glass interface – or when they do, they use it in ways that are inconsistent or disappointing.
Some other good themes:
- it’s okay not to change something if the alternative is change for the sake of change, a posture Apple’s hardware team feels more comfortable with than Apple’s software team
- internal Apple politics and the story of the Control Strip
- loved this phrase from Gruber about the macOS’s Tahoe release: “they vandalized it.”
Also, this:
A fair criticism of Apple over the years is that sometimes fixing 50 little misaligned text boxes or divider bars… using your time to do that, is time better spent than adding another user feature.