Lucas de Groot, Designer of Calibri, on the State Department’s Switch Back to Times New Roman

★ Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

Apple’s Succession Intrigue Isn’t Strange at All

Pondering Middle East Petrostates as American Media Owners

Paris Buttfield-Addison’s Apple Account Is in Kafka Mode

The Infinite Loop of One LLM Talking to Another

Paris Buttfield-Addison’s Apple Account Is in Kafka Mode

U.S. State Department Changes Back to Times New Roman From Calibri

Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorships, End of Year and Q1 2026

Apple at the AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynote

Apple at the AWS re:Invent 2025 Keynote

Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorships, End of Year and Q1 2026

Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorships, End of Year and Q1 2026

Special Dyslexia Fonts Are Based on Voodoo Pseudoscience

★ 2025 App Store Award Winners: Tiimo, Essayist, and Detail

I did not enjoy them as much as Apple did.

★ iMessage’s Delivery Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All iOS Push Notifications

Draw your own conclusions about cellular carriers and enterprise network administrators being similar to authoritarian governments.

iMessage Doesn’t Use APNs for Attachments

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2

★ The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman

Good on Rubio for rescinding a bad decision, and even better for doing so with a fair and informative explanation.

Trump’s Dogshit White House Signage Typography

Trump’s Dogshit White House Signage Typography