Articles by robenkleene
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Laying out the 404 Media zine (tedium.co)

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Wine Cooler (feedbinusercontent.com)

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Reaching 10M App Store users (lapcatsoftware.com)

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (infrequently.org)

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Needy Programs (tonsky.me)

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Kensington's new trackball comes packed with scroll wheels (theverge.com)

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Thoughts, Observations, and Links Regarding ChatGPT Atlas (daringfireball.net)

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Creative neglect: What about the apps in Apple? (sixcolors.com)

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Why Linux and Why Now (brooksreview.net)

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Getting syntax highlighting wrong (tonsky.me)

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Audacity 4: a glimpse of a new, more modern UI for the free audio editor (cdm.link)

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Tahoe Electron Detector (furbo.org)

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Akai MPC Live III: expressive pads come to the MPC grid (cdm.link)

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Adobe Premiere Now Delivers Fast, Pro-Quality Video Editing on Mobile (adobe.com)

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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here (microsoft.com)

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The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard [2023] (lapcatsoftware.com)

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State of the software engineering job market in 2025 (feedbinusercontent.com)

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Apple's Assault on Standards (infrequently.org)

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Sales Engineer Was Laid Off and Was Forced to Take an Entry-Level Job (businessinsider.com)

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Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost (cdm.link)

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A new ZSA product: The Navigator (feedbinusercontent.com)

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First Contact – New in Little Snitch Mini 1.8 (obdev.at)

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Infinite Mac (infinitemac.org)

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Cursor makes developers less effective? (feedbinusercontent.com)

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Liquid Glass (ia.net)

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Jeff Williams, 62, Is Retiring as Apple's COO (daringfireball.net)

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Jeff Williams to be replaced as Apple COO (sixcolors.com)

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Liquid glass, now with frosted tips (birchtree.me)

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Omarchy Is Out (world.hey.com)

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Stepping Back (jesseduffield.com)

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Finding My Spark Again (steipete.me)

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Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts (daringfireball.net)

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Physicality: The New Age of UI (lux.camera)

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The Automation Gap (mjtsai.com)

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Embedding Godot games in iOS apps is easy now (christianselig.com)

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Design Tools Survey 2024 Results (uxtools.co)

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GenAI's Adoption Puzzle (ben-evans.com)

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Notepad.exe – The Swift Playground You Wanted (notepadexe.com)

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The Upheaval Coming for the Internet Economy (stratechery.com)

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The Dystopian Dream Team (lmnt.me)

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Sublime Text Build 4200 and Future Plugin Changes (sublimetext.com)

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Hey Is Finally for Sale on the iPhone (world.hey.com)

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Austin book club has been reading the same book for 12 years (texasstandard.org)

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Emacs: My New Doric Themes (protesilaos.com)

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Emacs Lisp Elements (protesilaos.com)

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For-Profit (Creative) Software [video] (youtube.com)

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Matching drop shadows across CSS, Android, iOS, Figma, and Sketch (bjango.com)

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The Seneca (norbauer.co)

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Writing Modern Command-Line Applications in Rust (shark.fish)

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The Web on Mobile (adactio.com)

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Menu Needs to Die (birchtree.me)

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1M Lazygit downloads, one embarrassment at a time (jesseduffield.com)

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Shakeup in the App Store Top Downloads List (daringfireball.net)

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'Nvidia Drops 17 Percent as China's AI Model DeepSeek Sparks Tech Sell-Off' (daringfireball.net)

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My approach to running a link blog (simonwillison.net)

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Adobe Raises Monthly Photography Plan Prices (mjtsai.com)

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Ghostty: Reflecting on Reaching 1.0 (mitchellh.com)

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Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev (feedbinusercontent.com)

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Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program (rfleury.com)

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Sublime Text 4 Build 4189 (sublimetext.com)

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Ghostty Is Native–So What? (gpanders.com)

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How to install iTunes in Linux (and why you shouldn't) (dedoimedo.com)

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Acorn 8 (shapeof.com)

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Emacs: Two New Standard Themes (protesilaos.com)

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The Developers Who Came in from the Cold (rogueamoeba.com)

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Notion: Going Native on iOS and Android (feedbinusercontent.com)

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The new Vim project – What has changed after Bram [video] (youtube.com)

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Andy Grove Was Right (daringfireball.net)

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Tech site The Verge is adding a paywall (talkingbiznews.com)

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Welcome to Aperture [2010] (apple.com)

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Switching to Android? (morrick.me)

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The End of the Twitter Era (sandofsky.com)

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Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud (daringfireball.net)

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Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires (daringfireball.net)

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MindNode Is Becoming MindNode Classic (mindnode.com)

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Pinwheel: Color Conversions and Design Sysytems (bjango.com)

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Once again, the only way forward is the Mac (macworld.com)

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Zig-Jag (spyglass.org)

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OP–XY (teenage.engineering)

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Line Editing (wizardzines.com)

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The Developer of Acorn on Apple's Pixelmator Acquisition (shapeof.com)

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Max 9: new coding and livecoding, new visuals, and Ableton's sound tools (cdm.link)

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Why Zellij? The story of Zellij and its creation (poor.dev)

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Meta's AI Abundance (stratechery.com)

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Nothing left to solve (lmnt.me)

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20 years ago today, I published the first stories to Create Digital Music (cdm.link)

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Technology Radar Volume 31 (thoughtworks.com)

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State of the software engineering job market in 2024 (feedbinusercontent.com)

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NUIO – Flow Keyboard (hellonuio.com)

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Former Apple Design Exec Debuts New Company NUIO (9to5mac.com)

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Rogue Legacy Source Code (github.com/flibitijibibo)

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Moom 4 Is Excellent, but Not Available in the Mac App Store (daringfireball.net)

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Why do these YouTubers keep talking about video editing? (birchtree.me)

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Shipping Tumblr and WordPress (automattic.com)

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Linus Torvalds: Speaks on the Rust vs. C Linux Divide [video] (youtube.com)

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Raw sockets behave differently in macOS and Linux (swagnik.netlify.app)

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CodeEditApp/CodeEdit: CodeEdit App for macOS – open-source, free forever (github.com/codeeditapp)

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Reasons I still love the fish shell (jvns.ca)

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Reeder: A New Approach to Following Feeds (macstories.net)

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Comments on Founder Mode (kocienda.micro.blog)