sam henri gold

ran into zohran just now while getting coffee. really nice guy. ironically this was the playlist i was listening to

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

We have another design team opening at Tavus for a Brand & Product Designer! If this strikes a chord, DM here or electronically mail me with a resume/website/portfolio/whatever you have (sam at tavus dot io)

#getfedihired #fedihire #jobs

do you remember that thing before browsers had integrated search/url fields where, if you typed a search query into the URL field, it would redirect to a SERP owned by your ISP? absolutely wild.

you could not write a more 2008 sentence if you were given a year

war today queen?

RE: @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io

With all due respect did the person who wrote “displays real hands” breastfeed on rocks as a baby

app review didn’t like my video or the fact that I said “for iOS” in the subtitle or the fact that I added the opener to Pride and Prejudice in the release notes. this is what 1984 warned us about. probably. i didn’t read it.

i saw this yesterday and the concept of spinning up nano banana to draw a rectangle on a screenshot kinda made me want to scream

Going onto fox news to fear monger about minified JS. “parents, do you know what your children are seeing when they press F12? your kids will start writing !0 instead of true. they’ll write things like `!function(e,t,n){}` — this is not an accident.”

RE: @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io

kinda surprised nobody has noticed the About screen text yet

idk why my WireView video blew up on YouTube (apparently 90% of the views came from the YT home page) but it now has 23k views lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ9XTSt5Hms

(hushed tone) listen if we all use UIDesignRequiresCompatibility they can’t take it away this year

Kinda curious how shitpost-y they’ll let me get in the release notes field

Introducing WireView, a new tool for the iOS developer workflow. It’s primarily for me but you can have it, too. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wireview/id6756973128?mt=12

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor