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May 18, 2026

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Scenes Seen: Sony A7C II + Viltrox 50mm f/2 Air.

Eric L. Woods · Blog ·

Scenes Seen, A Cool Vehicle, & Nice Folks: Sony A7C II + Viltrox 50mm f/2 Air. Subtitle: The Sony FE nifty fifty I have been waiting for. The motivation. The usual. Photography as a dis...

by Eric L. Woods

Manton Reece · Blog ·

Absolutely incredible game. Spurs win in double OT. That long 3 from Wemby when they were down, the late block, dunk… Can’t believe that was only game 1. 🏀

Scenes Seen, A Cool Vehicle, & Nice Folks: Sony A7C II + Viltrox 50mm f/2 Air.

Eric L. Woods · Blog ·

Scenes Seen, A Cool Vehicle, & Nice Folks: Sony A7C II + Viltrox 50mm f/2 Air. Subtitle: The Sony FE nifty fifty I have been waiting for. The motivation. The usual. Photography as a dis...

by Eric L. Woods

Buy Indonesian. I Am

Indonesia & US Value Investing · Blog ·

Pasar saham Indonesia hari ini sedang kacau balau. Di satu sisi, melemahnya nilai tukar Rupiah, defisit APBN, hingga meningkatnya nilai utang Pemerintah karena program-program populis, membuat prospek...

by Teguh Hidayat

Robert Birming · Blog ·

Watched: Black Swan (2010) 🍿 Goosebumps — in more ways than one. Great movie!

18th May 2026 at 21:59

Robb Knight • Everything • RSS Feed · Blog ·

🖊️ The Mildliner site now has all the Japanese codes for mix pens since my full set turned up today.

by Robb Knight

Something’s Rotten in the State of macOS Icon Design

Jim Nielsen’s Blog · Blog ·

This is an iconic observation: If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design This isn’t, however, just the story of Apple’s...

Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s Claim Against Sam Altman in Unanimous Verdict

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration...

by John Gruber

Apple Gift Card Scheme

Michael Tsai · Blog ·

Todd Bookman (via Roman Loyola): Then, according to Carter, the cards are carefully placed back in their original packaging, and are returned to the store’s shelves, where an unsuspecting custo...

by Michael Tsai

Claude Desktop App

Michael Tsai · Blog ·

John Voorhees: Late yesterday, Anthropic announced messaging support for Claude Code, allowing users to connect to a Claude Code session running on a Mac from a mobile device using Telegram and Disco...

by Michael Tsai

Memory Integrity Enforcement Exploit

Michael Tsai · Blog ·

Khanh: Early this week, we had a meeting at Apple Park in Cupertino. While there, we also shared with Apple our latest vulnerability research report: the first public macOS kernel memory corruption e...

by Michael Tsai

Hardening Firefox With Mythos

Michael Tsai · Blog ·

Bobby Holley: Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser. We wrote previously about our...

by Michael Tsai

‘John Appleseed’

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik: When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s market capitalization was around $350 billion. As of t...

by John Gruber

Replacing my Apple TV with a Bazzite box

overkill.wtf — Everything · Blog ·

My latest project is turning my Bazzite-based living-room PC into a multimedia console. It is currently using a 3D-printed case, but I am planning to switch to a Fractal Design Ridge, add a new PSU, a...

by [email protected] (Kevin Wammer)

Manton Reece · Blog ·

In 2023 I started winding down use of the Twitter API after they moved to a $100/month developer plan. X has now switched to a $0.01/tweet pricing model for posting. I could add the feature back, with...

Define ‘Boom’ Please

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at...

by John Gruber

Ted Turner’s Small Apartment Above the Former CNN Center

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life. (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)  ★ 

by John Gruber

Manton Reece · Blog ·

Debugging a glitch that only happens in WebKit, I briefly considered bundling Chromium into my app just to avoid the issue. But that would take the app from 10 MB to over 100 MB. Too many apps are so...

Existing Stakeholders Have a Say in the Future

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

A follow-up point on my “AI Is Technology, Not a Product” column over the weekend. Here’s a repeat of Steven Levy’s argument that John Ternus must direct Apple towards building “a killer AI product”:...

by John Gruber

The Mind of Claude

Scripting News · Blog ·

I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do. It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and...

Tech Is Not Boring

Initial Charge · Blog ·

I have to respectfully disagree with Lee on this. I wrote about how tech is still cool a couple of years ago and think that stands today. A handful of years ago I found excitement in Apple, iOS apps,...

by Mike Rockwell

‘AI, “Humanity”, and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome’

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

Jim Prosser, back in February: Let me be clear about causation, because the AI parallel only works if we’re honest about it. The communications failures didn’t kill nuclear power. The disasters d...

by John Gruber

Netizen | Derek Sivers

Adactio: Links · Blog ·

1993 shaped how I think of the internet, and I’m keepin’ on in that original spirit. Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what...

The value is in the difficulty - Annotations

Adactio: Links · Blog ·

We’ve seen this arc before, and music is the richest analogy. Like Bruce Sterling always says: Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody. adactio.com/links/22571...

Manton Reece · Blog ·

The original Transformers movie from the 1980s is returning to theaters in remastered 4K. I will probably have to see this again. I’ll never forget the experience in the theater as a kid…...

The Alaska Permanent Fund as Loose Precedent for AI Data Center ‘UBI’ Payments

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

Wikipedia: The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (...

by John Gruber

Some notes on AI

overkill.wtf — Everything · Blog ·

I am very skeptical of AI. I also use it heavily on a near-daily basis. Currently, I have three paid accounts running: Claude Code through my work, ChatGPT Business through overkill1, and Gemini Pro,...

by [email protected] (Kevin Wammer)

AI Data Centers Are Deeply Unpopular, Across the Political Spectrum

Daring Fireball · Blog ·

Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup: Seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half, 48%, who are strongly opposed. Barely a qu...

by John Gruber

Your blog needs more photos

Robert Birming · Blog ·

There's one thing I miss on just about every blog I visit: images. Real photos. Not so much for blog posts, unless it's related to the text. But for your about page, for example. Or the next time you...

by robert

Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose

Simon Willison's Weblog · Blog ·

Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelica...

Scripting News · Blog ·

2024-era ChatGPT pictures, of which I created many are now like Comic Sans type was in 2010 or so, if you remember.

Apple Papercuts

The Tao of Mac · Blog ·

I know this blog has strayed a fair distance from its Mac-centric origins, but I’ve been keeping a mental list of all the things that are broken, missing or inexplicably neglected in Apple&#821...

by Rui Carmo

Manton Reece · Blog ·

After all the drama, the jury decides that Elon Musk loses the OpenAI case because of the statute of limitations. Not quite as satisfying as a clear yes or no on merits, but I think it would’ve been t...

The courage to live on your own terms

Darius Foroux · Blog ·

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche had been on my reading list for years. I finally got to it recently. While I didn’t really like the book, there was one chapter that really got to me, called “O...

by Darius Foroux

Quick Reads is officially in the Obsidian marketplace

Birchtree · Blog ·

I'm happy to say that after a lengthy review process, the Quick Reads plugin is available on the official Obsidian marketplace. It may take a few days/hours for it to show up in the in-app market...

by Matt Birchler

Now Playing Notify 1.2.0: Less to Notice

Tom McFarlin · Blog ·

The first version of Now Playing Notify was primarily focus on notifications for the currently playing track. The second release was about being able to do something with them such as being able to c...

by Tom

Chapterize 1.5: Multi-document editing is here!

Birchtree · Blog ·

A new version of Chapterize is out now that includes multi-document editing across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This is a free update for existing users and you can get it now.There's really not much...

by Matt Birchler

Weeknote #2001

Robb Knight • Everything • RSS Feed · Blog ·

I haven't done a weeknote in a while and this one is packed with links because I've got very behind on all the things including my saved later list. What do you mean you don't have custom artwork for...

by Robb Knight

Robert Birming · Blog ·

I’m in playful mode today. Latest creation: a movie log pulled from my Letterboxd diary. ✏️

18th May 2026 at 12:28

Robb Knight • Everything • RSS Feed · Blog ·

The Pilot Airstep branding is so chaotic

by Robb Knight

Manton Reece · Blog ·

Alexa+ can now generate audio conversations about any topic: Alexa will pull together the relevant information, give you an overview of what it plans to cover, and let you adjust the length and direc...

Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the Problem

Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Blog ·

There are understandable reasons for people to oppose data centers; the only solution that will work is simply paying them off.

by Ben Thompson

Manton Reece · Blog ·

Listening to the latest The Talk Show with Adam Lisagor. Really fun conversation about using AI. But also a little painful whenever I hear how much someone is paying Anthropic… This is why the...

A phone battery experiment

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed · Blog ·

I’ve done all sorts of experiments over the years when it comes to my phone usage. From cutting down my screen time as low as possible, to not using the phone at all, to running it in black-a...

by [email protected] (Manuel Moreale)

Manton Reece · Blog ·

Ben Thompson makes the case in today’s article that AI data centers should pay local residents, a sort of corporate-run UBI: I do get how ridiculous this sounds, but ridiculous is how we do thi...

Manton Reece · Blog ·

At the beginning of the NBA season, this was my guess to @cheesemaker about the standings. I thought Spurs at 3 might be a stretch. And here they are tonight at the west finals… Let’s go!...

Robert Birming · Blog ·

Added last workout to my dynamic now page. The whole thing is more of a fun experiment, but it does the job. ✏️

Mini-story: Inhabited

Matt Gemmell · Blog ·

The evening sky was as purple as the heather that stretched out before me, but it had bands of red and gold too. I’d hiked almost ten miles that day, in a long loop that would eventually bring me bac...

A Brief Review of the APC BACK-UPS PRO 700 UPS (Model BR700G)

Cheapskates Guide RSS Feed · Blog ·

I generally like the features of the APC BR700G UPS, but it does have some drawbacks.

Scripting News: Monday, May 18, 2026

Scripting News for email · Blog ·

Monday, May 18, 2026 The Mind of Claude# I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do.# It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with...

by [email protected] (Dave Winer)

Freezing Your Cake

taylor.town · Blog ·

My grandma archives food. Her pantry contains foods which literally expired last millenium. She fills her freezer chests with unlabeled takeout containers, desserts from Trader Joe's, and half-full...

by Taylor Troesh

Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring

Notes on software development · Blog ·

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