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Joshua Wold

Better AirPods recording quality

Apple also announced some changes to the iPad for podcasts. I will try those out, but I’m more interested in the Apple Newsroom announcement for AirPods. I have several podcasts. 99% of the time I record from my home office. But if I could use my AirPods for decent

Thoughts on WWDC 2025

It was fun seeing all these changes come out from Apple. I always enjoy WWDC, and love seeing the hard work of all the people at Apple come through. That doesn’t mean there’s not things that concern me, but today I’m choosing to be an optimist. Apart

Apple changed everything, again

I remember iOS 7. I installed it day 1. My phone suffered all summer from bugs. My battery life dropped faster then a brand new iPhone during a cidada brood. But I loved it. It was a drastic shift—moving away from skeumorphic design into something new. As an illustrator

Freeform in iPadOS 26

It’s Apple Day for all who celebrate. For iPadOS I had a whole wishlist for Freeform. It looks like I’m going to have to wait another year for these items to come true. With the tiniest mention in the keynote I’d hoped to dig up more details.

Filling the empty wells, reducing Apple Watch notifications, helpful meeting notes, designer modes, Freeform wishlist

Despite a crazy week on a personal level, I had a lot of fun with the small moments where I was able to get in writing. First, I want to say thank you to everyone who reads these posts. It means so much, and as always any feedback is welcome;

Freeform wishlist for WWDC 2025

It’s almost WWDC, and time to ask the Cupertino gods for a boon. Though I’m very excited about the rumored diamorphic design, my desires are for something much simpler. Sketching is my life. I can’t imagine a way of working without it. It’s how I think

Lo-fi and hi-fi modes as a designer

It can be hard to stay focused throughout the work day. My brain, long trained by social media and distractions from the shiny blue screens, wants to take every detour available. So I have to wrestle it back into place. And this is coming from someone who works from home,

Running in whole numbers

If I’m headed out on a 3 mile run I can’t stop at 2.81 miles. Even if I’m back home I’ll loop around the neighborhood a bit. Not all runners do this. And it really doesn’t matter. But in my brain I find it

Dark Noise is still the best app for noise cancelling

I love the Dark Noise app. Recently I tried switching away from it. I wanted to try out Apple’s Background Sounds. The quality of the sounds is just as good. I’ve been happy with them, and I can quickly trigger the dark noise to start from the control

Muybridge and Thunderbolts

Two fun design bits of inspiration happened this week while I was decidedly not working. In the evenings I’ve been reading through the excellent Muybridge graphic novel. Earlier this week I also went and watched Thunderbolts in theatres. At the end of the movie the main-on-end credits had stylized