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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
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. Subtitle: The Sony FE nifty fifty I have been waiting for. The motivation. The usual. Photography as a dis...
by Eric L. Woods
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
Watched: Black Swan (2010) 🍿 Goosebumps — in more ways than one. Great movie!
🖊️ The Mildliner site now has all the Japanese codes for mix pens since my full set turned up today.
by Robb Knight
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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...
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
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
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...
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
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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…...
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
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)
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
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, 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...
2024-era ChatGPT pictures, of which I created many are now like Comic Sans type was in 2010 or so, if you remember.
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 Apple̵...
by Rui Carmo
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...
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
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
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
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
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
I’m in playful mode today. Latest creation: a movie log pulled from my Letterboxd diary. ✏️
The Pilot Airstep branding is so chaotic
by Robb Knight
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...
There are understandable reasons for people to oppose data centers; the only solution that will work is simply paying them off.
by Ben Thompson
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...
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)
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...
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!...
Added last workout to my dynamic now page. The whole thing is more of a fun experiment, but it does the job. ✏️
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...
I generally like the features of the APC BR700G UPS, but it does have some drawbacks.
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)
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
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