Daring Fireball

Demi Adejuyigbe with a short lesson on how to democracy.  ★ 

Flow is a professional UI Animation tool that lets you design in Sketch and export your animations to production-ready code (iOS or HTML).…

Nice little interview with Ive by Nicholas Foulkes for The Financial Times:…

John Paczkowski and Joseph Bernstein, reporting for BuzzFeed News:…

Gorgeous photos from Om Malik, all shot on an iPhone XS Max.  ★ 

Presumably to announce all-new iPad Pro models, and, I hope, new MacBooks. (I don’t want to jinx anything by even mentioning new Mac Minis outside a parenthetical.) The event is being held on the east coast, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2,100-seat…

The schedule is mostly open for DF sponsorships through the end of the year. If you’ve got a product or service you want to promote to DF’s savvy audience, get in touch. Weekly sponsorships now include both a sponsored post in the DF RSS feed at the start…

Ethan Baron:…

Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include Apple Watch Series 4 and the notion of third-party watch faces, Google’s Pixel 3 phones and Pixel Slate two-in-one tablet/notebook, and Bloomberg’s disputed “The Big Hack” story.…

Jacob Kastrenakes and Nilay Patel, writing for The Verge:…

Three cameras, a big screen, blah blah blah. What I don’t get is why every single article about Huawei phones doesn’t mention their egregious design rip-offs. Right on their default home screen, they flat out copied the icons for Music and Health from…

I just loved Mat Honan’s Pixel 3 review — it’s half review of this particular phone, and half condemnation of the outsized role phones play in our lives today.  ★ 

Kurt Wagner, writing for Recode:…

The original really is a crummy-looking bagel. I’m an everything bagel man, myself, but I can accept this plain one for the emoji.  ★ 

Brian Merchant, reporting from Magic Leap’s developer conference for Gizmodo:…

Rachel Lerman, reporting for The Seattle Times:…

Morgan Knutson on Twitter:…

Dami Lee, writing for the The Verge:…

Dieter Bohn, writing at The Verge:…

My thanks to Hyper for sponsoring Daring Fireball this week to promote HyperJuice, their airline-safe 27,000 mAh battery pack with dual USB-C ports (100W and 60W) and one 18W USB-A port. All three ports can be used at once, so you can charge a 15-inch MacBook…

If you temporarily turn off iCloud Photo Library and turn it back on, it might be easier to just delete all your photos from your iPhone first.

Greg Parker:…

I watched the Made by Google keynote video, and was in New York yesterday for some hands-on time with their new products. Nicole Nguyen’s summary of the Pixel 3 is the best I’ve seen — really does capture just about everything you should know about it.…

DuckDuckGo, on Twitter:…

Chance Miller, writing for 9to5Google:…

Glenn Fleishman — who knows more about Wi-Fi than anyone I know — explains the whole “Wi-Fi 6” thing:…

David Foster Wallace, back in 2000:…

Hardware security researcher Joe Fitzpatrick was one of the very few named sources in Bloomberg’s blockbuster “The Big Hack” story. He provided only background information on the potential of hardware exploits in general — he claimed no knowledge of…

Geoffrey Fowler, writing for The Washington Post:…

HyperJuice is an airline safe 27,000 mAh battery pack with dual USB-C (100W + 60W) + 18W USB-A ports that can quick-charge a MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and iPhone all at the same time.…