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Hi! My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make websites and iOS apps, and this is my blog about technology (mostly a Twitter archive, really).

1 February 2017

@stroughtonsmith:

iPad will only be what Apple makes it. If not the future anymore (it was Steve’s), that’s 7 years wasted watching the Mac go nowhere either https://t.co/5UtBSnPblh

# 2017/02/01 - 11:42 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

Looks like Microsoft still hasn’t figured out having several subtly different OSes all named ‘Windows’ is bad

# 2017/02/01 - 13:37 — published on @cedricbozzi

@vinchubang:

The guys at @Iconfactory are introducing “micro UI” things only accessible with pencil. Those mini-sliders are indeed functional https://t.co/ZiOUjFbVPH

# 2017/02/01 - 18:20 — original tweet by @vinchubang

Interesting idea making the Home button area a cousin to the MacBook’s Touch Bar, but not sure about comfort in hand

# 2017/02/01 - 22:46 — published on @cedricbozzi

2 February

Gurman: Apple planning to give the Touch Bar’s ARM processor more work

# 2017/02/02 - 01:04 — published on @cedricbozzi

Can’t imagine it’s worth the trouble just to improve Power Nap, but it’d give Apple a reason to get macOS apps compiled for ARM before announcing ARM Macs.

# 2017/02/02 - 01:04 — published on @cedricbozzi

Figured I’d empty the battery a couple times for calibration. It’s been like this for an hour now #RIP

# 2017/02/02 - 12:37 — published on @cedricbozzi

@Jedd_Ahyoung:

“What is technical debt?” Technical debt is hard to explain, but a picture is worth a thousand words. #programming #softwaredevelopment https://t.co/AG2L3VDuKZ

# 2017/02/02 - 18:07 — original tweet by @Jedd_Ahyoung

Paid expert witnesses ¯\(ツ)_/¯

# 2017/02/02 - 18:18 — published on @cedricbozzi

I’m so tempted to buy a cheap Android phone rather than spending a week and 100€ to get a genuine new battery installed.

# 2017/02/02 - 18:23 — published on @cedricbozzi

I’d miss Tweetbot, Touch ID, and a few other small things, but most of all unlocking my MacBook with my Watch. Death by a thousand cuts.

# 2017/02/02 - 18:23 — published on @cedricbozzi

I love that you can buy $900 brown-leather headphones that are tuned for EDM and lackluster with classical music

# 2017/02/02 - 19:05 — published on @cedricbozzi

3 February

I just updated watchOS and of course “Unlocking with Apple Watch” doesn’t work anymore hahahahahugh

# 2017/02/03 - 12:54 — published on @garoocomplains

This makes sense as a netbook, in which case releasing it would be more a question of giving up on the iPad-as-computer

# 2017/02/03 - 21:01 — published on @cedricbozzi

4 February

Installer FaceApp, passer dix minutes à alterner entre les vues “original” et “hot,” sortir la bouteille de vodka et le Xanax.

# 2017/02/04 - 19:03 — published on @garoo

(La version “smile” est assez bluffante, et drôle.)

# 2017/02/04 - 19:05 — published on @garoo

6 February

@BenedictEvans:

It’s no good saying ‘don’t read the comments’. The comments are running the country.

# 2017/02/06 - 00:15 — original tweet by @BenedictEvans

7 February

“iOS Stiffness: The Neglected Touch Down State”

# 2017/02/07 - 15:04 — published on @cedricbozzi

That doesn’t sound like “paint the back of the fence” so much as simply neurotic

# 2017/02/07 - 20:18 — published on @cedricbozzi

10 February

That’s a new low (“count down one hour and forty-five minutes” works fine, of course)

# 2017/02/10 - 14:30 — published on @garoocomplains

Also it annoys me every single time that the transcript says “countdown” instead of “count down.”

# 2017/02/10 - 14:31 — published on @garoocomplains

I stupidly tapped “Update All” and there are 14 partially filled progress circles right now. Anyone ever heard of staggering the downloads?

# 2017/02/10 - 23:36 — published on @garoocomplains

Because obviously, with all those concurrent updates, my iPad ran out of space and now they’re all stuck forever.

# 2017/02/10 - 23:38 — published on @garoocomplains

I guess Steve Jobs was right, huh. Mobile apps are a bad idea and I should delete them all and use Safari for everything.

# 2017/02/10 - 23:41 — published on @garoocomplains

12 February

Une app Mac qui charge et configure automatiquement les sous-titres de n’importe quel film ou épisode de série

# 2017/02/12 - 12:35 — published on @garoo

@stroughtonsmith:

Every time I spend time with magazines I wish the wider web could be more like they are. Rich design, paginated, non-interactive, permanent

# 2017/02/12 - 22:00 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

14 February

@NathanJLiu:

An awful trailer for a show nobody wants.

Apple Music — Planet of the Apps — New Series, Coming Soon https://t.co/8GDe8D4uMI

# 2017/02/14 - 11:16 — original tweet by @NathanJLiu

“On a un nouveau système informatique” ou comment passer sa journée entière dans une salle d’attente.

# 2017/02/14 - 12:42 — published on @garoo

“Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers”

This is why we can’t have nice things.

# 2017/02/14 - 16:04 — published on @cedricbozzi

15 February

Can you believe there’s something Twitter didn’t think through

# 2017/02/15 - 17:53 — published on @garoocomplains

I feel a little sorry for HTC: betting the farm on VR but, as soon as more SteamVR headsets come out, they’re toast

# 2017/02/15 - 18:42 — published on @cedricbozzi

16 February

When I drag a file it would be so nice if Finder didn’t become unresponsive for the 10-20 seconds it takes my Drobo to wake up but oh well.

# 2017/02/16 - 20:39 — published on @garoocomplains

17 February

Every so often I need this and wonder how come Adobe never saw fit to implement it in 26 years; from the answers, Krita looks promising

# 2017/02/17 - 11:37 — published on @cedricbozzi

Ooh, I need to rethink my site’s failed-login UX

# 2017/02/17 - 14:31 — published on @cedricbozzi

@stroughtonsmith:

The way Apple is marketing iPad use right now is with the vertical touchscreen+keyboard they use as an excuse for keeping the Mac sans touch

# 2017/02/17 - 21:21 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

18 February

Pray for me

# 2017/02/18 - 14:17 — published on @cedricbozzi

Why couldn’t the damn battery be simply screwed in place?

# 2017/02/18 - 15:01 — published on @cedricbozzi

It was a fucking struggle but I made it and it looks like I didn’t break anything

# 2017/02/18 - 15:55 — published on @cedricbozzi

Now feeling paranoid about whether my iPhone always got so hot when charging+syncing (I think so?) and wondering wtf to do with old battery.

# 2017/02/18 - 15:56 — published on @cedricbozzi

19 February

Never thought to check if you could disable Photoshop’s ‘New Document’ atrocity—too busy being baffled it shipped

# 2017/02/19 - 02:16 — published on @cedricbozzi

“How do digital devices know how much energy is left in their batteries?”

# 2017/02/19 - 13:59 — published on @cedricbozzi

After two months with a battery case, using a sleek naked iPhone 6 with 24-hour battery life suddenly feels like THE FUTURE.

# 2017/02/19 - 20:25 — published on @cedricbozzi

21 February

@stroughtonsmith:

I really love that something as basic as copy/paste has been made unreliable and unpredictable thanks to network sync with iOS. 😛

# 2017/02/21 - 11:04 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

@stroughtonsmith:

Will pasting in this field on iPad paste the text I just copied on iPad? Oh no, it’ll take the Mac pasteboard from a minute ago. ಠ_ಠ

# 2017/02/21 - 11:04 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

“The previous owners of used ‘smart’ cars can still control them via the cars’ apps (not just cars!)”

# 2017/02/21 - 17:08 — published on @cedricbozzi

@linuz90:

[theguardian.com] [pic.twitter.com]

# 2017/02/21 - 17:10 — original tweet by @linuz90

Instagram still doesn’t care to remember your social network sharing settings from one post to the next.

# 2017/02/21 - 18:46 — published on @cedricbozzi

22 February

A web-based interactive version of the ML image generation algorithm — with facades, cats, shoes and bags 😲 (via @balbinus)

# 2017/02/22 - 01:09 — published on @cedricbozzi

23 February

“Podcast Settings” popover closes itself every time iTunes is done loading an episode in the background — of any other podcast, too.

# 2017/02/23 - 00:13 — published on @garoocomplains

And the ‘Done’ button doesn’t seem to respond to Enter, giving iTunes that much more time to dismiss the popover while I move the cursor.

# 2017/02/23 - 00:14 — published on @garoocomplains

@SeanMcElwee:

Twitter literally lets white supremacists openly use their service as a recruitment tool but draws the line at saying “fuck you” to the VP. https://t.co/2RT4XYzBaT

# 2017/02/23 - 15:47 — original tweet by @SeanMcElwee

@belbeeno:

[pic.twitter.com]

# 2017/02/23 - 18:06 — original tweet by @belbeeno

I’d been wondering how those tiny camera stabilizers could work with only 3 degrees of freedom; only occurred to me today the other three are handled digitally 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2017/02/23 - 21:06 — published on @cedricbozzi

Swipe one time too many on an Instagram carousel and you’re in your messages pane before you’ve had time to stop. #UX

# 2017/02/23 - 21:38 — published on @garoocomplains

24 February

@taviso:

Cloudflare have been leaking customer HTTPS sessions for months. Uber, 1Password, FitBit, OKCupid, etc. [bugs.chromium.org]

# 2017/02/24 - 12:16 — original tweet by @taviso

“It appears the solution to the gorilla-arm problem wasn’t to eliminate touch, but to move the screen”

# 2017/02/24 - 14:18 — published on @cedricbozzi

You’ll have a hard time convincing me of that

# 2017/02/24 - 14:25 — published on @cedricbozzi

FWIW I did feel like my iPhone handled its aging battery much better following the latest format-and-restore a few weeks ago.

# 2017/02/24 - 14:27 — published on @cedricbozzi

If you need to write a “How do I log out?” page then maybe you’re doing something just a little bit wrong

# 2017/02/24 - 23:17 — published on @garoocomplains

26 February

The jury-rigged virtual camera system used to compose Rogue One’s CGI shots 💜

(Visual spoilers begin at 3:00.)

# 2017/02/26 - 22:47 — published on @cedricbozzi

27 February

@Padraig:

1Password’s marketing is getting gross. We have a gift for you! (The gift is “you can pay us for a subscription and get a few months free”.)

# 2017/02/27 - 00:46 — original tweet by @Padraig

@vladsavov:

Nokia 3310 vs. Nokia 3310. [pic.twitter.com]

# 2017/02/27 - 21:23 — original tweet by @vladsavov

28 February

@stroughtonsmith:

Fun fact: hold down Home+VolUp at cold boot to boot iOS 10.3 into CheckerBoard, a new diagnostics & logs system for Apple Retail stores https://t.co/Ft9eys1Dc3

# 2017/02/28 - 13:00 — original tweet by @stroughtonsmith

I’d wondered why Apple would bother to leak the curved screen to WSJ; guess the lede was buried behind the paywall