Joel Spolzky blogged way back in 2000 that we should never rewrite software from scratch. I’ve always tried to follow that advice. Now, it’s slightly less absolute. Old software gets bloated and slow, and rewrites no longer carry the cost they used to.

We’ve started porting Sunlit to Android. Coming along really well and will be released in the coming weeks. Sunlit on iOS has gone through a number of redesigns, and the current version is in some ways the most lightweight, which is a good place to start across platforms. Open source on GitHub.

When we rebuilt the Micro.blog iOS a couple of years ago, we focused on the iPhone. That changes today with an update for the iPad and Duo. See the full release notes on this help page.

Jim Mitchell has been updating OutPost this week. It’s a Mac app for publishing to Micro.blog and other Micropub-compatible platforms. (iOS version planned…)

John Gruber blogged a comparison with Apple losing Steve Jobs:

I argued, on the day of his resignation, that Apple was likely to continue to thrive post-Jobs, writing, “Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.” He built a great company with a deep bench and a highly distinctive, incredibly strong culture.

Steve Jobs knew he was dying and prepared for it. Until this week, Jensen Huang thought he was going to lead Nvidia for another decade or longer. Getting rid of him so suddenly is going to have aftershocks.

Most companies no longer need massive capital to get started. There are going to be more and more successes where the founder owns the majority of the company, if not all of it. Related, JA Westenberg blogging about one-person unicorns:

…there are things that can’t be automated, and sometimes it’s better to do direct employment to resolve coordination problems. But the tipping point has shifted - quite a lot - and probably in the direction of smaller optimal firm sizes for a very large range of companies.

The end of this post on X from Tim Sweeney feels like a jab at Apple:

A sad day for NVIDIA, developers, America, and all humanity. Jensen founded and ran one of the few companies to reach a massive scale while driving massive continued innovation and ubiquity, while others fell into the trap of ever-increasing extraction.

Wondering how much of Jensen Huang’s pushback on succession was because he didn’t want the board to have an easy way out. I can relate to not wanting anyone else to run your company… Nothing would cause me to give up Micro.blog. But also I think a lot about what will happen when I’m gone.

Dreamed last night that my Mac’s hard drive failed, but in talking with Apple, I was able to pay 💰 to upgrade the internal storage during the repair instead of buying a new Mac. I’m clearly worried about space… The available GBs on my Mac feels like a random number generator some days.

Lex Friedman asks what an app is worth now that we have AI:

The answer, to me, is you pay for an app if the care and attention the developer gives the app is more than you can afford to give. If the few bucks you’ll spend is worth more than the time you’d spend building your own version of the app.

Most people just don’t have time to maintain an app. The value of one-off utility apps will go down, but there will still be a market for many kinds of apps, especially those with an ecosystem or significant infrastructure behind them.