Hello, I'm Greg,
A designer focused on creating accessible and user-friendly experiences, I make Micro Social. When I'm not designing you'll find me taking photos and spending time with my family.
A designer focused on creating accessible and user-friendly experiences, I make Micro Social. When I'm not designing you'll find me taking photos and spending time with my family.
A selection of my latest photography work
Thoughts on design, photography, and technology
OpenAI reportedly mulls buying Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s AI hardware startup | TechCrunch
OpenAI is said to have discussed acquiring the AI hardware startup that former Apple design lead Jony Ive is building with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Running out of companies to buy and ruin, billionaires are now acquiring themselves….
Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules - BBC News
judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.
This is fantastic news. Now if we can actually get the public interested in this!
European Commission Orders Apple To Improve Third-Party Device Integration
Today’s decisions wrap us in red tape, slowing down Apple’s ability to innovate for users in Europe and forcing us to give away our new features for free to companies who don’t have to play by the same rules.
Apple crying that they have to allow other things work with their devices, other than more of their devices. Yep more proof of it were need they care about the bottom line not users.
Just slap an LLM on the front end—how hard can it be?
You can’t get there just by LLM-ing harder and faster.
The realisation that you can’t just slap an hallucination machine on something and it power you tech is fast approaching.
Imagine hiring someone and they just make stuff up at the level LLMs do. I get it, they’re useful, I use them loads but I don’t want them powering my device, I wouldn’t trust one to even set my alarm.
Nick Heer in An Age Range API Is Coming to iOS Later This Year
it makes complete sense for age verification to be part of a child’s Apple Account information instead of collected individually by third-party apps.
I can’t understand why this is only now a thing. It’s been right in front of everyone the whole time whilst they’ve been pointing in every other direction.
The Dent in ⭐️ Owning your own space and content is important
Your posts will find a niche, if you want them to, and if not you would have still carved out your own little patch of the internet, ripe for growing something special.
Seeing Andy encourage people to blog is not what I expected from 2025. But I love it!