Ashley Bischoff

ALT Excerpt from Daring Fireball: “At first I found myself reaching out to pinch the icons and buttons I saw in front of me. Like if I wanted to activate Safari I’d rich my hand toward the Safari icon and pinch it. That works fine. But it’s completely unnecessary. You really can just leave your hands on your lap. It works when you try to pinch the actual virtual icon in your field of vision because you are looking at the icon, and your finger and thumb do tap, but your hands can be anywhere. All that matters is what you’re looking at. It started feeling natural within just a minute or two, and could feel myself navigating the interface faster as the demo went on.” There’s an annotation around “rich” that was probably meant to say “reach.”

ALT Graph titled “Slack outages in the last 24 hours.” The right-hand side of the graph, which represents the current time, shows a large spike, indicating that Slack is having significant problems.

ALT Screenshot of Spark, the macOS email client, with the main message list redacted with pixelation and an annotation drawn around the message viewer pane

ALT Ashley’s iPhone 14 Pro Lock Screen showing the top widget slot set to Hello Weather’s temperature widget and the bottom widget slots set to Calendar’s Next Event widget and Weathergraph’s hourly-forecast widget.

ALT alt text: “An illustration of Apple’s logo made out of stars in the nighttime sky. Text below it says: ‘Far out. RSVP to join us in person for a special Apple Event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. September 7, 2022 10:00 a.m. PT’”

ALT The Kinesis Advantage 2, a split ergonomic keyboard featuring two concave wells of keys that are about 9 inches (or 23 cm) apart when measured from middle finger to middle finger. The keyboard also features a cluster of six keys placed under each thumb so that the keys that you use most are assigned to your thumbs, such as space, backspace, and enter.

ALT Photograph of sunset along a rocky coastline. The caption says “sunset at the cost wallpaper for iPhone. “

ALT among a grid a white wooden cubbyholes is a cubby with a single penny which is next to a black-on-white label-maker–style label that says “penny”

ALT Lucille Bluth exclaims, “How many tests could New York need—twenty?”

ALT In a scene from The Simpsons, Homer says to Bart, “This is the HOTTEST sommer of my life. This is the COLDEST summer of the rest of your life.”