My Photography (117) — Amazing Sunrise over Lisbon, Portugal, 2023

December 7, 2023 · 10:50

Shortly after taking off from Lisbon, where we spent a week recovering from our daily routines, I had planned to go to sleep, but before I did, I glanced out of the window. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this combination of colours in my life.

The photo is unedited, no filters have been applied — it’s straight from the iPhone 15 Pro’s camera. It was however compressed from 2.1 MB down to 130 KB.

Shot with iPhone 15 Pro @ 48 mm: f/1.78, 1/50 s, ISO 100.

Steve Jobs: “This doesn’t do that. I want you to make this, do that.” →

November 18, 2020 · 10:23

John Gruber, on Daring Fireball, has a fantastic story about Steve Jobs:

I’ve told this story on podcasts, but I’m not sure I’ve ever written it, and I think the time is right. Steve Jobs was on medical leave for the first half of 2009. When he returned in early summer, he devoted most of his attention and time to crafting and launching the original iPad, which was unveiled in April 2010. After that, he had meetings scheduled with teams throughout the company. One such meeting was about MacBooks. Big picture agenda. Where does Steve see the future of Mac portables? That sort of thing. My source for the story was someone on that team, in that meeting. The team prepared a veritable binder full of ideas large and small. They were ready to impress. Jobs comes in carrying a then-brand-new iPad and sets it down next to a MacBook the team had ready for demos. “Look at this.” He presses the home button on the iPad: it instantly wakes up. He does it again. The iPad instantly wakes up. Jobs points to the MacBook, “This doesn’t do that. I want you to make this” — he points to the MacBook — “do that” — he points to the iPad. Then he picks up the iPad and walks out of the meeting.

Steve Jobs would have fucking loved these M1 Macs.

Five People Hacked Apple for 3 Months and Here’s What They Found →

October 9, 2020 · 09:43

Sam Curry:

Between the period of July 6th to October 6th myself, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes worked together and hacked on the Apple bug bounty program.

There were a total of 55 vulnerabilities discovered with 11 critical severity, 29 high severity, 13 medium severity, and 2 low severity reports. These severities were assessed by us for summarization purposes and are dependent on a mix of CVSS and our understanding of the business related impact. As of October 6th, 2020, the vast majority of these findings have been fixed and credited. They were typically remediated within 1-2 business days (with some being fixed in as little as 4-6 hours).

I was genuinely surprised Apple reacted so fast. The whole thing is well worth a read.