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January 21, 2024

A new experiment, and an Ink & Switch collab

October 21, 2023

An understanding of time in the OS of the future

August 28, 2023

How semantic zoom supports agency in personal software

July 29, 2023

A gestural environment for the OS of the future

April 22, 2023

Making the OS of the future more helpful

October 2, 2022

Dynamic Island and other ways OSs become ours

The latest iPhone’s new feature, Dynamic Island, follows a long line of ways OSs have allowed system and third-party software to inject new functionality over the decades.

Today’s lab note is about this — one of the most important forms of freedom in personal computing.

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LN 032: System injections »

Alexander Obenauer

Dynamic Island and other ways OSs become ours