Evan Deaubl

But it usually throws at least one additional tap into **anything** that isn't directly viewing/manipulating content. You realize just how much routine interaction was not just "looking at the content on the screen," because you're digging into glassy controls trying to do it now.

I think the main thing that's the problem is that it's a model that says, "The content is the most important thing to look at, surface that as much as possible," pushing the control layer far out of the way until its needed.

I don't think this is a matter of "ugh, new thing bad," because I have pretty much adapted to it (or resigned to it, like Stockholm Syndrome), or the significant number of bugs. The interaction model is just fundamentally flawed, and the only way to fix it is to just... not do it.

Fired up the Pixel to see how the other side is living these days, and it became instantly obvious how bad of a misstep Liquid Glass is. I realized just how much of a persistent cognitive burden it is to use, which was not there with Android.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Not great, but also not my problem for a couple days either. That’s for future me to fix now.

Hide the Pain Harold meme. An older man holding a cup of coffee looks at a laptop screen, then looks up the viewer with a smile that looks like it is hiding emotional pain.

TFW you had a set of changes to test on a branch, and you see the email saying someone else merged the branch into main.

Yikes. To the headline, and the clothes. I thought it was a denim onesie for a second.

"That's fine," he tells himself unconvincingly.

Brilliant 4-dimensional chess move.

Saw that I had a mid-cycle update to iOS, and they appear to have fixed the issue. But geez, if this set up is going to make it this easy to ship usability-destroying bugs…

Xcode, or as I like to call it, the "Copying shared cache symbols" app.

Twitter screenshot of @SNeurotypicals: Neurodivergent screening tests will be like "do you struggle with wearing socks" and ND people will be like "nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System" and folks that is what the question is getting at

Aha, found it

I can't find it due to search engines no longer working, but there's an old tumblr screenshot about ADHD evaluations where a person is asked whether they tend to lose socks.

And they go "Ah, no, I used to lose my socks all the time but I have Devised a System, allow me to explain it"

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

I’m becoming genuinely concerned we’re going to end up with something that combines the worst elements of skeuomorphism with the worst elements of flat design.

A screenshot of the bottom button and button bar in iOS 26 beta 4, with button icons essentially invisible.

New iOS beta has apparently renamed Liquid Glass to Looks Like Ass. These are buttons. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Yay, that's good news too!

That is a face of pure joy.

A story about Stephen Colbert I’ve never shared before. Years ago I was hospitalized for a month. One of toughest things I ever had to
do. Confined, monitored, my health a mystery with no solution, cycling through roommates & their families who needed miracles, or would go off to surgery & vanish…

We know that there will be elections because Trump’s folks are demanding state voter roll information.They are working to gerrymander Texas even more. They are relaxing the IRS rule to allow churches to endorse candidates.

There will be elections or else they wouldn’t be doing all these things.

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive.

We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

🎶 A little bit of me, WHO YOU LEFT OUT 🎶
RRRAH!

A very uncomfortable percentage of them were already there.

Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' — what to know Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new "visa integrity fee" to visit, but questions remain as to how and when it will be implemented. Here's what we know so far.

This will make for a great slogan for visiting America. Come for the exorbitant visa fees, stay for the chance to get renditioned by ICE/DHS.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

Honestly, a full-on Reconstruction + Constitutional Convention to essentially re-forge of the sword that has been broken is the minimally-acceptable course correction.

Absolute post-Nuremburg-style "De-MAGAfication" of the entire apparatus.

The rot must be fully excised & scrubbed clean.
It's the only way to be sure.

I prefer the original German for this word: Geschlechtsverkehrungeheuer.

American president, 1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner"

American president, 2025: