By “desktop-grade” I mean scale and control, not a different engine.
On iPadOS everything uses WebKit, so yes, Beam is Safari/WebKit under the hood.
The difference is tab management. Tabs have explicit states (active, warm, suspended), so inactive tabs are unloaded to save memory while keeping their navigation state. That makes large tab sets usable without killing performance.
You get a persistent sidebar, vertical tabs, spaces, pinned tabs, and complete keyboard shortcuts - things common on desktop browsers but mostly missing on iPad.
If you take Arc for example, the only Arc app on iPad is Arc Search, which is just the iPhone app stretched for iPad. Therefore, it's optimised for quick, on-the-go searches rather than the kind of workflow you would have on a Mac. This works for some kinds of users, sure, but I personally am trying to be able to switch to use my iPad as a laptop when I'm travelling or something, and I really miss having any sort of browser anywhere like what we have on desktop - Zen / Arc / even SigmaOS or any other browser with a sidebar.
That's what I mean by desktop-grade - does that make sense? Sorry if it was confusing!
This reads as AI-written, which is horrible given this could be a genuinely interesting article. But, other than AI tone, skimming shows little actual concrete info or insight.
I love this: I think it may be really insightful in UI design. At the transition from user interface to user experience, the attitude gradually changed to a curated experience: perfect design, a specific way of doing things. We see this a lot with Apple, including how powerful features have disappeared.
I strongly suspect the root cause of their current UI situation on Mac could be tied to the theory in this post.
In other words, being required to follow the local law causes a tantrum -- with all caps no less -- threatening impact on free services and entities unrelated to the issue.
Not a good look.
I don't support this specific block, but the way they're handling it screams neo-corporate "want more power than nation-states" energy.
It’s not clear to me how many of the modules can be added at once. Can you install the infrared remote and a camera and a bright flashlight all at the same time?
I feel this is a slightly cruel comment. It’s a website of creativity, very well executed. Also, if you read the text, it is right.
Some of the presentation (such as the inverted / mirrored square) is pure art. In an admirable sense: art.
While I get the commentary — that bit reminded me of House of Leaves which has been criticized for the same thing — there’s a real human behind this, who obviously cares deeply about the issues they’re communicating about (and has the skill to do so quite incredibly.) Sometimes I wonder, in the ease of critique, what it’s like for the anonymous person on the other end, and I don’t feel good here. I feel like your comment doesn’t quite account for the humanity of someone else, nor of someone doing something with passion.
> Sometimes I wonder, in the ease of critique, what it’s like for the anonymous person on the other end
Here's a better look at how the "anonymous person on the other end" sees things [1]:
> “i’m always polite to chat gpt so it remembers me later ” you are going to die from water-poison-related typhoid in the Great American Megadesert after a particularly nasty heat surge evaporates the rest of the drinkable rations. you will be buried in the sand.
I'd agree if the site covered some history, shared recipes, or even just ranted about the author's favorite movies. But this guy is just trash-talking the entire internet.
"the website has changed. it twists facts to fiction, reality to rubbish, gold into dirt." ... and so on.
If you're going to be cruel, you might get some cruel feedback.
No. I also feel very worried on the 787 (the new fiberglass one.) Since the fiberglass body is entirely new tech, I don't trust that it will remain strong over time and I fear unknown and unexpected structural failures.
They have also made user-hostile choices. The new windows don't have window shades, and are very slow to change from light to dark (it's electricly dimmed.) But what is worse is the captain can, and does in my experience, dim them against your choice: for example, I've been in flights near storms and wanted to see the lightning, and been unable to; I've also wanted to see mountains, and been unable to. It made me feel very claustrophobic: I was not even allowed to look out the window. In all other flights on other aircraft, at night passengers were allowed to open their window shades: there is no light outside that would bother other passengers. This control felt arbitrary and, well, controlling.
I feel if that level of control is exerted I don't know what other decisions they've made that are not with the passenger interests in mind.
I try to avoid Boeing where possible, and look for Airbus flights. Where I can't, I try to avoid the 737 Max (earlier ones are ok) or the newer models.
> "the lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have...,” Trump said
Is this implying cyber attacks on the infrastructure?
I found the chart lower down on tens of thousands of using using Tor fascinating. I didn't know Tor was widely known (I myself have never used it, even though I've heard of it for years) and that seems a massive spike.
This -- the 20% time! -- is truly fascinating. I have wondered what a continually running AI, trying to keep a stream of consciousness, might look like. I think this is similar.
Yes, the whole thing. The only thing in the entire repo I wrote was the CLAUDE.md, which was the only file at the beginning.
I just fire up `claude` and say "Have fun!".
The only other nudge I've given it is once encouraging it to not be afraid to be ambitious, and that if it wanted me to distribute anything I would (and would provide it with user feedback if it remembers to ask me about it).
This uses Safari under the hood, since it's iOS?
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