Said Özcan @s@qoto.org

Ivory by Tapbots is launching today.

This app marks the beginning of a new era for Mastodon clients on Apple platforms. It raises the bar in this category, but there’s still work to be done.

I reviewed Tweetbot 1.0 on MacStories in 2011; 12 years later, here is my review of Ivory 1.0:

Ivory for Mastodon Review: Tapbots Reborn https://www.macstories.net/reviews/ivory-for-mastodon-review-tapbots-reborn/

You know what sucks the most about this whole twitter thing?

Like, even if everything went completely tits up and Elon lost the entire 44B in total, he’d still be one of the richest people in the world, and 7000+ people would have lost their jobs for nothing.

The twitter meltdown is interesting to me from a sociology standpoint because suddenly there is someone doing literally all the things we are told not to do by, say, The Mythical Man Month; and we’re able to see in real-time what the effects really are. There have been many times in my career where I’ve said things like, “you can’t measure productivity by lines of code written” and not believed! I look forward to the time I can point at Twitter and say, “you know who else counted lines of code…”