Nick Johnson

Husband, father,  , ISU, Bears, Bulls & Cubs fan. All opinions are my own.

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@ClassicII_MrMac Can I just get a hat without the rainbow Apple logo either black logo or white logo

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you can’t afford a PlayStation

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@justinryanio @spatialinsider I want environments for hit AppleTV shows like Severance, Ted Lasso, Foundation, silo etc

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@RaminNasibov Neopets

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

None of this is satire.

→ A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits

→ Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped

→ Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features

→ A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather

→ Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled

→ Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount.

[Mike @themessychef30]

The Spurs literally blowout the Thunder in every game where they're allowed to match OKC's physicality.

The Thunder are nothing special when you can get as handsy with them. Really shows how league manufactured their success is. Balance the whistle and they crumble.

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@asherdipps I’m actually cool with this!! I always swipe down from the corners anyway 😎

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@yonann Kevin O’Leary only uses a computer for email and zoom calls 😂

[Jana @BratDotAI]

Flighty is one of those apps every indie iOS dev should study.

Ryan Jones got stuck at an airport, hated how useless airline apps were, and decided to build the flight tracker he wished existed.

Former Apple ops employee.
Built for travelers, not airlines.
Won an Apple Design Award.
Was used by Apple to show off Dynamic Island.
No growth hacks.
No loud marketing playbook.
Just a product so useful that travelers tell other travelers.
That might be the cleanest moat in consumer apps.

[rabbitholebot @rabbitholebot]

Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@aaronp613 Can they do something better for the weather radar

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@ParkerOrtolani That’s basically me… waited for the Always-on-display and got my first Apple Watch with the Series 5 and still holding on to it been “wanting” to upgrade.

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@markgurman I was hoping for blood-glucose monitoring. Still holding on to AW5

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@PalwinderCFA @markgurman Apple Watch 11 for example 15 min charge = 8 hours battery life. Why do people need to wear a watch 24/7 for a week+ baffles me they think they can’t be bothered to take it off for 15min.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The ice cream isle has changed in America

Nearly the entire isle has changed their labels to no longer say ice cream and instead say “Frozen dairy dessert”

Even the most popular ice cream we’ve been trained to think is good. Now has changed labels

This is due to to strict FDA regulations on what can legally be called “ice cream.”

FDA Legal Definition of Ice Cream must meet these minimum standards:

- At least 10% milkfat (from real cream/dairy).
- Minimum levels of total milk solids.
- No more than 100% overrun (air whipped into the mix (more air = lighter, cheaper product)
- Minimum weight per gallon at least 4.5 lbs

If a product falls short on fat, solids, or has too much air, vegetable oils, more stabilizers or gums it cannot legally be called ice cream.

It must be labeled something else, most commonly “Frozen Dairy Dessert.”

Companies like Breyers, Dreyer’s, Turkey Hill, and others have quietly reformulated most of their popular flavors over the years to use less real cream, more cheap fillers, emulsifiers, vegetable oils, and extra air

Not everyone sold out, these brands you can still legally call ice cream:

- Häagen-Dazs
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Blue Bell
- Graeter’s
- Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams

[Justin Ryan ᯅ @justinryanio]

Apple just dropped a research paper called HeadsUp days before WWDC.

Trained on 10,000+ real faces to reconstruct a fully animatable 3D Gaussian Splat that you can rotate and light.

Excited to see Personas in visionOS 27.

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@DoctorLemma @grok Crazy! Thanks for sharing

[Nick Johnson @HeyNickJohnson]

@LordArche @jga41agher Boom! Thank you!!