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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Back at the Aero for a second night in a row! Know nothing about this movie, Walker, so excited to see it and the Q&A afterwards.

A pre-movie slide up on a large theater screen. The image is an old boat, listing and buried half-way with sand on a beach. Various men are on and around the boat, some of them aiming guns at the sea.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I know it’s very hard to get a photo of a dark, glass screen, but here is my 17 Pro after a full year, no screen protector. I dropped the phone maybe 3 times total. The screen is utterly pristine.

A hand holds a cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro at an angle to the camera. The front glass shows no scratches of any kind.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

My #iPhone18Pro had to wait in a box while I was out of town. Now it is ALIVE! (It’s very hard to capture its color. Shooting on a dark brown surface of course didn’t help much.)

A maroon iPhone 18 Pro nestled in its box.

Two iPhones sit face-down next to each other on a wooden surface: a cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro an a maroon iPhone 18 Pro. This photo is from directly above.

Two iPhones sit face-down next to each other on a wooden surface: a cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro an a maroon iPhone 18 Pro. This photo is at an angle.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Le sigh. This is happening when I use Clean Up in Photos on my Mac. The photo gets the iCloud error icon on the bottom right, so not only is it not syncing, it’s not letting me even re-edit the image, and I have to remove ALL edits. If I use Clean Up on an […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A Mac error in Photos. A yellow warning triangle with an exclamation point inside it, with the Photos icon small overlayed in the bottom right corner. “Cannot Start Editing. Photos cannot load edits for this image.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

These Ars Technica RSS feed headlines proved that perhaps we are, in fact, doooooomed!

Headlines from Ars Technica yesterday:

Al hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chin...

FAA tees up $875M Al tool to help manage air traffic congestion
An Al tool is set to start advising air traffic...

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, JAL, and Qatar The Federal Communications Commissio...

US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
On Wednesday, US government officials…

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I’m not sure whether I should applaud Camera Siri for this brazen fiction, or hate it. (The text it found is actually “R2-D2” in Aurebesh, and the mug is indeed a limited edition by Eric Heerspink.) (Siri sends these photo look-ups to Google, so I suppose it’s Google I should be miffed at.)

A screen capture of Siri in the iOS 27 Camera app. The image is a man with a large mug in front of him sitting on a table. The kid has a distressed look, with Star Wars design elements. Siri did a look-up (it uses Google for image look-up), and its conclusion: “The ‘72-73’ mug features a minimalist, retro design reminiscent of early 1970s aesthetics. This style of ceramic mug is often associated with vintage commemorative items or limited-edition releases from that era.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

At least it can sorta tell me why it can't do it. But, really, this is kinda obvious.

My question to the new Siri: “I want Shortcuts to be able to toggle the Sound Check setting in the Music app, but it syas it can't. Why not?”

Siri’s reply: “The Shortcuts app is currently unable to toggle Sound Check because Apple has not exposed this specific system setting as an actionable shortcut. While Shortcuts can control playback functions like playing music or skipping tracks, deeper system settings-including audio normalization features like Sound Check-remain restricted to manual adjustment in the Settings app.”

Reference: discussion.apple.com

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I refuse* to use Shortcuts until they fix this glaring error. It still won't work in the A.I. age. What is A.I. even GOOD for, then, I ask you? *This is a small lie. I use it to control Philips Hue scenes.

A screen capture of Shortcuts in MacOS 27. The result of asking A.I. to create the shortcuts leads to the response, “Shortcuts can’t toggle Sound Check in Music Settings.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Delta has removed the option to turn off your screen while boarding. Motherfuckers. (The option shows up when the door is closing, it seems.)

A Delta seatback screen. It shows advertisements. This screen is advertising Fresca.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I mean, I only ever see 1% of the things I WANT to see. It’s too magnificent. The entire con defies description. #DragonCon

A screen shot of a Dragon Con schedule entry. Title: “The Magic Puppet Tea Party” then some location information. The description: “Madame Edgewise is your host at this social mixer for puppets who bring their people to Dragon Con. Your puppet will get a chance to mingle with other puppets.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Dragon Con is almost here. We’re going this year, and I’m so excited. This schedule entry has me giddy… it’s #DragonCon in a nutshell!

An entry from the Dragon Con convention schedule. The headline is “Headless Lounge” and has location and times. The description: “Is your costume head, helmet, or mask getting too hot to handle, but you don't want to ruin the illusion by taking it of in the crowd? Rejoice! The Headless Lounge is here for you. Relax under the fans, get a cold drink of water, and cool down before your (refreshed) character returns to the masses.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Here we go. I’m so glad the Village is alive. #TheOdyssey I imagine this will be the best 70mm print I’ve seen in a long time.

A movie screen with a pre-show image from The Odyssey. The image is a scene from the sacking of Troy. At the bottom are logos for Directors Village, American Cinematheque, and 70mm.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I realize the touch OSs default to placing the cursor BEFORE or AFTER the word you want to click in the middle of, which is I suppose convenient sometimes, but it’s 90% INCONVENIENT for me. Holding and dragging is a thing (welcome to iPhone 2GS or whatever). But, I mean… look at THIS nightmare:

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

I’ve been wanting to see Babylon again. So voilà! I’m hoping this 70mm print will be better than the classic movies in 70 that they show. Somiften, those are painful to watch. We saw it in Dolby Cinema in 2023.

The marquee at the Aero theater in Santa Monica. It has classic black, plastic letters that spell out:

IN 70MM
BABYLON WED
STREETS OF FIRE SAT

The pre-show screen graphic:

Ultra Cinematheque
70 in big, drop-shadow font over a field of vertical red, green, yellow, and blue stripes
BABYLON in 70mm

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Why do *I* have to fix this logo myself? Such amateurishness. The old logo is on the right, a PNG. The new logo is in the middle, with a traced eye from the old logo in place. The new logo font is awful compared to the old. On the left, the new, official […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

To avoid problems, no description here, but the post itself pretty much describes what’s going on here.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

These E-mails are so fucking disgusting. I can only assume it's filled with lies. Dind't they close most of the Social Security field offices? Asshats.

A screen shot of a Social Security E-mail. It praises President Trump throughout, and says they've made SS better for old people. It reads like propaganda, not an official government communications.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Oh, wow. Day One on Mac is even worse! There is no Body style at all. Instead, you have to click Clear! I mean, any normal person would think clear would CLEAR AWAY the selected text, right? Especially on the larger formatting menu, which even has an X next to Clear. Fucking miserable.

A text formatting pop-over in Day One for Mac. It has a grid of various formatting options, like B for bold, and H1 for Heading. At the bottom is the word Clear. THAT is how you make selected text simple body style.

A drop-down (drop-up?) menu in Day One for Mac. it is a long list of text formatting options like B and H1, but also a Font menu trigger. The second item in the list is Clear with an X next to it. THIS is what you click to make text simple body style. Ugh.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

I was angry that there was no way to select Body style in Day One... but of course, the option is HIDDEN OFF THE TOP OF THE DROP-DOWN. Awful. See examples! Lists like this should ALWAYS indicate there's more above or below the current view, but Apple's OSs […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

In this text formatting drop-down in Day One for iPad, the list begins with 3 Heading. The is no Body style in sight…

…oh wait, until you scroll! Then invisible options become available.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Holy crap, I didn’t know this existed! CD ordered! (I could not find a place to buy it digitally permanently vs. buy it digitally for however long the companies' contracts last.) #AkiraRemix music.apple.com/us/album/akira-remi…

The album cover for Akira Remix. It has a painting of the front wheel of Kaneda’s red motorcycle. The body is covered with various stickers (SUNSET, EPSON, cargo, and others). The black tire is crackling with green energy around the axle. Large, outlined letters with a green glow around them say. “AKIRA REMIX.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

My Tyler Stout Mondo poster is still most cherished, however. It has pride of place above the movie-watching couch. (This should not imply I have a movie-watching couch, a reading couch, a nookie couch, and a nap couch. Just the one couch. But it's mostly used to watch flicks and shows!)

A blue couch in a living room. Above it in the center is a framed Akira poster which was made by artist Tyler Stout for a Mondo Mystery Movie night in Austin, Texas. Surround speakers sit at the top of the wall, and lamps flank the sides.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

A new and very exciting acquisition. I have never seen this poster before… and now I have one! That's two rare first-release posters that I’m going to be too scared to trust to a framer. Framers, be better!

Spread out on a table with the wanna-curl-up edges held down by coasters, Blu-rays, and a book, is a first-release Japanese Akira poster from 1988. The iconic Akira black “bomb” sphere rises from a ruined cityscape, which is mostly in shades of aqua. Debris is sucked into a portal in whirling clouds. At the top of the poster is AKIRA in outlined type, with the dim image of Kaneda’s eyes behind goggles. “Akira” appears again in purple text, with the Japanese name in gold brush strokes overlayed. Text below it roughly translates to, “It has already started, and it can not be stopped.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Now it’s time to finally read my correctly-oriented and re-translated 30th anniversary version of Tekkonkinkreet. I’m on a roll, after all.

A manga book, Tekkonkinkreet, sits on a dark table. The cover has the title in all caps with alternating light-in-dark and dark-over-light type. The author’s name, Taiyo Matsumoto, uses the last T of the title as the first T in his name. The image is a boy in a green T-shirt holding his hands up to his ears. He has a sly smirk on his face, one eye is closed, and has a scar vertically across it. A thick line is painted in black across his face, drooping below each eye. He has short brown hair upon which a set of metal goggles rest. Around his neck is a necklace made of what look like small, orange chili peppers.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

I don’t recall Lego having this giant block of wasted space at the bottom of their website. Once again on the Web, not much room left to actually see what I’m here to see! You can argue the menu bar is not wasted space, but I think it is when it could easily […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The same screen capture of the Lego web page for Minas Tirith, but with the annoying stuff greyed out so you can see just how much of the web page is of use. It looks like about ⅓ of the page is wasted.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Happy 100th Anniversry to the El Capitan Theatre! Seeing a movie here is truly magical: it has Dolby Vision and Atmos; there’s an organist playing a classic Mighty Wurlitzer; the curtain show is delightfully over-the-top. I love when a work event lets me hang […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A view inside the El Capitan Theatre shot from the highest point up in the balcony. Rows of balcony seats curve at the bottom and left. The orchestra section far below is covered with original architecture: opera boxes, a detailed sculptural arch, all lit with colored lights. The stage is empty except for some crew working with a ladder, tables, gear cases, etc. Dolby Atmos speaker truss can be seen suspended over the auditorium.

The pipes and instruments for the Mightly Wurlitzer organ in the El Capitan Theatre. They are all nestled in a nook painted white.

People work in the auditorium of the El Capitan Theatre. The rows of orchestra seats curve from the viewer and off to the top right. The balcony follow this curve above the orchestra section. Plywood slabs acting as desks are placed atop rows of orchestra seats, with laptops and monitors and other gear being use atop those. The projection booth with its windows sits in the center back of the auditorium. Truss with lights and speakers can be seen about the place.

In the basement of the El Capitan Theatre, very large, red-and-white-striped bags of Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn are stacked on low shelves. The stacks are arranged in or of use, with signed behind indicating “Use First,” “Use Second,” “Use Third,” and “Do Not Use.” Signs saying “STOP Do not use” make the bags to hold off on opening. (The El Cap still pops their popcorn fresh!)

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Well... I replaced my physically damaged living room lamps (22 years old, unique and therefore non-replicatable) with some Govee lamps. I love the new lamps... but they do not work with Apple Home except via Matter, and, well, Matter is a whole other […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Two tall floor lamps in an apartment. On the right is a 22-year-old, flat silver lamp with a tilt-able, flat head holding 4 halogen spots, which can each be aimed separately. It looks a bit like a medical lamp! TO the left of that is a sleek, black tree lamp, with 3 separate lamp pods that can be swiveled in many directions. The black lamps can also telescope, to focus the beam from wide to spot. Both lamps are on and shinig toward the ceiling.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

It's getting tiring discovering liquid glass's myriad failings, is it not? (This isn't really even liquid glass... it's the dumbass idea to put Music's control box AT THE FUCKING BOTTOM OF THE WINDOW. Idiots.)

A screen capture from part of the bottom of the Mac Music app window. A list of tracks run to the right of album art thumbnails. The stupid Music control chicklet, which is now at the bottom of the Music window, FLOATS on top of all the shit. Then, to top it all off, a horizontal scroll bar floats ABOVE the TOP of the music control chicklet, NOT at the bottom of the window, where it belongs.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

This crossword is what representation looks like! 🎉

A screen shot of a crossword puzzle clue. 42 [across]: “Physique between twink and bear, in gay lingo.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

Happy birthday to me! (And what’s with this white cardboard? That threw me completely.)

A giant size box of Lucky Charms, sitting on a kitchen counter, the box top open.

Looking down from the top of a box of Lucky Charms. The box top is open, and instead of the usual brown cardboard, this cardboard is white.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

America is so gross. (Of COURSE they got the ’ in ’76 upside-down.) (Of COURSE there’s an asshole-targeted flavor called Wakin’ the Neighbors.) (Of COURSE Lincoln has a BLOODY BANDAGE on his head! So. Gross.)

Packages of ground coffee on a store shelf, all by the Black Rifle Coffee Company. They all have a prominent (but not huge) American flag on the front bottom.

The coffees are called:

1: Spirit of ‘76, with a probably AI illustration of Washington and Lincoln marching and playing the fife and drum. Lincoln has A BLOODY BANDAGE AROUND HIS HEAD. The American flag is probably AI is not attached to anything. AI???

2: Wakin’ the Neighbors, with a probably AI rooster illustration. The rooster is angry, drinking coffee he’s sloshing because he’s so angry. He is wearing an infrared scope on his head, with FOUR lenses. None of the lenses cover his eyes.

The back of one of these coffee bags: “Black Rifle Coffee Company serves coffee and culture to people who love America. We developed our roasts with. mission focus and commitment to supporting veterans, law enforcement, and first responders.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

This is an amazing post about Parker Brothers’ ’70s–’80s design ethos. I had forgotten about Waterworks entirely! A friend had this game, and, wow, what a kick in the face to be reminded of it. We DID own Bonkers. Pre-pandemic, we played it at a game café […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A picture of the front of a Clue game box from 1972. The word” Clue” at the top is set in Bowen on white in a chonky font (Novel Gothic Extra Bold, I guess), with smaller, black text “Parker Brothers Detective Game” in Kabel Black.

Below this, on the bottom 4/5ths of the box is a staged tableau of the various Clue characters. They are placed around an ornate library room, with shelves of books and a huge fire place with marble mantelpiece. Mrs. Peacock in an older, Ms. Marple-looking woman in a skirt suit thing, holding a cane and sitting on a leather lounge chair behind a side table and plant. Miss Scarlet lounges seductively on a wood and red-upholstered divan. The Asian woman has long hair, a black dress, and is smoking a cigarette held in a long holder.Behind her is Colonel Mustard, with white hair and mutton chops, a monocle, a tan suit. He is leaning against the mantelpiece with a finger placed next to his mouth in, perhaps, curiosity. In front of Miss Scarlett in Mr. Green, sitting in a chair and wearing a grey, pinstriped, double-breasted suit. He has a yellow carnation in his lapel and hold a cigar in his slightly-agape mouth, a surprised look on his face. Mrs. White, the maid, is way in the background, looking scared and hiding partially behind some red curtains. FINally, in the foreground holding a book in his hand and his chin in his fingers, sits. Bemused Prof. Plum. His pipe and spectacles impart wisdom, like he’s above the whole thing.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

You know, It’s Nice That, for a design blog, this ugly, intrusive floater at the bottom of every page is pretty shitty design. I never thought I’d see someone actually think the infuriating bottom controls in the Mac’s Music app was a great idea, but I’ll be […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

400 years of #AppleMaps, and we STILL get this problem: What is the name of the street circled in this image? Yeah, who knows. (I DO know, but only because I live here.)

A still from Apple Maps. A street running diagonally top left to bottom right is circled with a red oval. The street runs for about 01 blocks. Maps does not label the street, so there is no way to know its name.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

Hey, now, lookie there! Guess what DOES appear once you EXPAND THE CUSTOMIZATION UI! Ha ha ha. Silly me not knowing I could do that. Far be it for me to suggest there be at least a thin dotted line to indicate a flex space is there when the UI is TOO FUCKING NARROW.

The same tool customization interface as before, only now the window has been expanded, and the flexible spaces appear.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

Here is that the tool bar looks like in use. The flex spaces are working, but the only way to know is exiting the customization interface! 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 2/2

The actual tool bar after leaving the customization interface. Now, the flex spaces are visible, with massive amounts of FLEXIBLE SPACE in the places that were not visible in the customization screen!

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

Flexible Spaces are broken in the Creators Studio apps, thanks to the stupid v26 title bar/not title bar situation. Well, look what happens when you add Flexible Space into the Pixelmator tool bar! The UI does not indicate that you have done so, or that […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Even better, NBC Sports Apple TV app! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️‼️

A picture of anTV screen showing the NBC Sports Apple TV app loading screen. There are menu items at the top, but I. The center of the screen is an unending loading animation of three dots.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Good job, NBC Sports iPad app! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️❗️

A “carousel” of icons on the NBC Sports app. It looks like two of the horizontal rows of scrollable elements are overlapping, with text, thumbnails, and icons on top of each other. The top-most layer are thumbnails, which are too short and are cutting off the image.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

It is important to emphasize that no one should be starting any fires during this difficult time.

On a wall in a stairwell are an elaborate series of large pipes. Attached to the pipes are round, red handles; gauges with needles showing pressure; dangling labels say “TEST & DRAIN” or “CONTROL VALVE.” In front of this mess is a black sign on a stand: “OUT OF SERVICE. Thank you for your understanding.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Saw this in Cash App Taxes. Just when you think you know everything that's going on, you see this shit. 🙄 I can only assume this is an attempt to avoid inheritance taxes.

An option in Cash App Taxes (and, I assume, all tax apps this year):

"Open a Trump Account

"You want to open a Trump account for an eligible child, and request a $1,000 Pilot Program Contribution for an eligible child. A Trump account is a type of IRA that can be opened for a child's future benefit. Opening the account will enable your children to receive any funds they may be eligible for in the future.”

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

What color is typically the deafult for highlighter markers? What color do people generally reach for for easy-to-notice highlighting? What color was a default in the digital realm for highlighting digital text? What color is no longer a highlight option in Apple Notes? #EverythingIsBroken

The highlight color options in Apple Notes. This particular color selector was screen-captured on the iPad.

The colors are listed with a sample of the color to the left of each option:
Purple
Pink
Orange
Mink
Blue

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

I’m in the first ever Apple Store so that I may replace an AirPod. It’s amazing the history I have here. (It’s actually Apple Store #2, but it opened first.)

A picture taken from the back of Apple Store Glendale Galleria. The usual light wood tables are lined up in the store, flanked by shelves and displays. The overhead lights form an irregular grid above it all.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

The new normal for most of my Mac App Store updates: The never-closing circle of progress. #EverythingIsBroken

A blue circle that is not quite completed. This is an app update circle on the Mac App Store.

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Steve Lekowicz 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @lekowicz.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

I guess the good thing about the new Final Cut Pro icon is it will supplant this absolutely miserable current icon, created for MacOS 26. No one who has ever even seen a picture of a clapper/slate would have designed this top-heavy monstrosity.

The Mac OS 26 icon for Final Cut Pro. It has the comically rounded corners indicative of Liquid Glass. The icon depicts a slate (or clapperboard) used in moviemaking, which includes a hinged stick at the top which is brought down to make a "clap" sound. The top clapper part of the slate icon is ridiculously large, looking more like the icon is wearing a hat.

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