But were you trying to learn CSS in the first place?

it may not be meaningful for you (the user), but usually has benefits for the provider, from binding arbitration clauses in the ToS to deeper commercial suveillance.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbit...

> Remember, an app is just a website skinned in the right kind of IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it

the museum is small but excellent; it has a wall covered just in Dire Wolf skulls found there

Interesting collection but mostly focused on western world and mixing different eras so feels incoherent, like a low-effort ‘content creation’

Can someone come up with a conversion factor for context window sizes to glacier depletion?

> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge (the original iPhone only sold around 7M units while iPods were selling around 50M/year at the same time).

This is almost certainly true once they decided that iOS was going to be based on MacOS. Those software design choices had to have been based on a very aggressive hardware roadmap

The acquisition of PA Semi was announced in April 2008, so it is possible discussions were already in progress by the time of the first iPhone launch

Sure, but Apple had gone public with the iPhone announcement over a year before the PA Semi acquisition.

I think it's safe to say that they had already selected an off the shelf Samsung CPU before they did the public demo of the device.

> The third AR thing I saw was the loading screen of Super Fruit Ninja, which allows you to throw a strawberry at a pig that’s running around on your floor. This seems slightly less historic.

That seemed to me the most historic if true!

embedded systems/firmware where the same code may need to be built for multiple HW platforms/cpu architectures.

Gruber had a fun take on this

https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x