+ My religious Belle & Sebastian experience
by Matt Birchler
June 1, 2026
60 articles
Meta A.I. Support Bot Meets Robert Hackerman, the County Password Inspector
Brian Krebs: A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or...
by Nick Heer
Mere Being - 031 - May - a paid membership program
Readers–I wrote about this briefly in the middle of the last issue, but now that I've got a little bit more of the backend nailed down, it deserves a real launch announcement:I'm laun...
by Nat Bennett
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked I had trouble believing this story was true, but I've seen it verified from multiple sources now:...
John C Reilly has only one audiobook, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But it's the best audiobook I've ever read, because the narrator and the book are great, esp together. Wish he would do more. Als...
macOS 26.5.1
Juli Clover (release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, macOS Tahoe 26.5.1 addresses an unexpected shut...
by Michael Tsai
iOS 26.5.1
Juli Clover (release notes, no security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the update fixes a previously documented charging issue with iPhone Air and iPhone...
by Michael Tsai
BBEdit 16
Bare Bones Software: This release of BBEdit introduces expanded support for macOS “Shortcuts”, via additional actions provided in the Shortcuts application. A “Transform Text”...
by Michael Tsai
Bee Champion
Spelling bees have gotten a lot more intense. How many of these do you know? torrone, enthymeme, iguape, Denebola, fais-dodo, cywyddau, pohutukawa, monadnock, émeute, nannofossil, tongkang, Natch...
by Matt
If you work at Automattic as a developer, if there's another Radical Speed Month for devs, if you want, let's work on a project together even though I don't work for the company. I'm most interested i...
Maybe the best way to deal with the AIs is to quarantine the data centers on the moon or Mars, and if you want to hook up to the network, you have to move there, and quite possibly not be allowed to r...
WWDC26 Wallpaper
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by BasicAppleGuy
AI model choices 2026-06
My 2026 Jan AI tool stack. Six months since my last post and the whole list has turned over. Models ### Kimi 2.6 has become my overall workhorse model. By default I start most AI sessions with Ki...
Clothes Are Nice. Fashion Biz, Not As Much!
Every morning I sit down and open Feedbin on my iPad. It aggregates my RSS feeds and newsletters – about a hundred sources – covering everything from AI to zeitgeist. One story stopped me recently. T...
by Om Malik
Recently I wrote an entire blog post and...
Recently I wrote an entire blog post and streamed YouTube via phone hotspot on a six-years-old Chromebook with 4GB RAM and a Pentium chip. And it was fine. Everything worked without a hitch. It was...
Distinguishing Technology From Technology
This isn’t a post on AI (thank God). It also isn’t really a post about tech. Well, it sorta is, but tangential to tech in the sense that I’ve come to a resting conclusion that what...
by <span class='p-author h-card'>Geoff Graham</span>
Demolition continues on 51st street.
Kath Korevec, who works at OpenAI, in a post on X: Devs do a lot more than “just coding.” They write docs, design apps, design architecture, manage devops, work with data, etc. It’s...
Steve Troughton-Smith in a Mastodon post: The best kind of WWDC is the WWDC that gives me a big grab-bag of tools to make my apps better along several axes, and doesn’t burden me with a huge am...
Social RSS (?)
What’s up with this? I’d like to see an explicitly social-forward RSS reader. Like it’s encouraged to highlight passages and leave short comments. Your buds see yours, you see your buds.&md...
by Chris Coyier
Do I want a smartwatch/fitness tracker?
Since switching over from iOS to Android (see here, here, and here), my first-gen Apple Watch Ultra is lying in a drawer. Even when I was still using an iPhone, I stopped wearing it the moment I bough...
by [email protected] (Kevin Wammer)
RTX Spark
With Nvidia announcing the RTX Spark today, I revisited my quick comment from last year about the DGX Spark. It appears the price went from $4k to $4700 since then. Mac Studio price hasn’t chang...
Now Playing
I added a new feature to this website: Now Playing. (It is still missing a proper RSS feed, coming soon!) Since I am a lazy fuck, I will probably not fill back in all the games I played this year. Bu...
by [email protected] (Kevin Wammer)
My backpack at FIB16, in Belém (PA)
During the Brazilian Internet Forum (FIB16), in Belém, Pará, I carried a backpack to the convention center with basic items to spend the day there, do the work I was hired to do, and when I had s...
by Rodrigo Ghedin
There's so much I dread about the progress of AI, but nothing I say could possibly make a difference, and we aren't even that deep into it yet. This is the feeling I get every time I stop and think ab...
In A Tech Matrix
I thought I was out; Apple pulled me back in. At the start of this year, my previous iPad and MacBook were gone. Cross-platform and third-party apps had decoupled me from Apple; I was using my HP V...
A year ago I experimented with running local AI models inside Micro.blog for Mac. I did a bunch of work on this and then threw all of the code out. It wasn’t good enough. I’ve now come bac...
They should teach every chatbot to never give the user an order.
It’s wild that the corgi correctly predicted every game in the western conference finals. That’s a good dog. 🏀
How To Back Up Claude Settings With rclone
Lately, I’ve been using Claude pretty heavily more than other LLMs. Over time, I’ve accumulated settings, plugins, and various configurations that I don’t want to lose. If I ever se...
by Tom
Anthropic submits draft to go public: Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial p...
Is Bluesky on the web?
Is Bluesky on the web? Yes, to an extent. I can post the url of an item I wrote on Bluesky, using an HTML link. That is how the web works. First you're on my blog, or reading it somewhere else where m...
At what point will companies start using AI to communicate with customers? Who will be the first to show everyone else how to do it? Amazon taught the world how to do commerce over the web. When will...
How to Acquire a Useful but Inexpensive Computer during this Time of Historically High Prices
Given the high cost of new computers and parts, your best option right now may be to buy a still useful used computer. Here ishow to find one.
Designed in California
My pals Myke and Jason are launching a new project: The two of us, Myke Hurley and Jason Snell, have been discussing Apple in depth every week for more than a decade on the Upgrade podcast. We want...
Reflecting on how WWDC has changed, I still like my blog post from 2014. I could update it for the modern era, but I’m not inspired to do so. In a way, the best of WWDC will always be captured i...
YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar
YouTubers are ruling the box office, and it shouldn't be a surprise: succeeding on YouTube is a much higher bar than the gates that currently govern Hollywood.
by Ben Thompson
New Kickstarter campaign from Jason Snell and Myke Hurley to fund a podcast series covering Apple history: Designed in California will consist of at least 30 episodes dropping over 12 months, looking...
Piccia Neri’s post on LinkedIn
What a slap in the face of every tech conference that claims it is simply not possible to have a truly representative line-up: multiple perspectives, multiple faces, multiple experiences, rather...
It has been a while since we bumped the system requirements for Micro.blog for Mac. Current version runs on macOS 11 Big Sur. This feels like a good stopping point. The next version (4.0) will require...
1st June 2026 at 10:38
Drag and drop? In this economy?!
by Robb Knight
Spider-Noir is off to a great start. I didn’t realize until we queued it up over the weekend that it was a TV series, not a movie. Watched most of it in black and white. 📺
Let the agents democratize open source
The open source movement spent decades fighting for everyone's right to change software, through free access to code and permissive licenses to release improvements. But at the dawn of the AI revol...
by David Heinemeier Hansson
Streets of New York
My recent work trip to Manhattan included one perfect, spring sunny day – so I hit the streets to do some New York City street photography. The constant sunlight and plentiful shadows made this...
Can’t believe WWDC is next week. Obviously the new Siri will the headline, but hope we get some other tweaks to Liquid Glass and general robustness. Apple will improve Xcode too. Many developers...
The Talk Show: Twins Named John
That feeling when a tech support text turns into a podcast episode: Stephen Hackett returns to the show to help me make sense of a problem that is hard even to describe, let alone solve, regarding Ap...
AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
Simply put: AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high. AI will fill the world with grindingly average texts, passable but derivative illustration...
Codex added a profile with token usage over time. Interesting.
Your life matters (even if you’re not famous)
You sit down somewhere quiet. Maybe in a coffee shop. Maybe on your couch after a long day. And out of nowhere, a thought hits you. Why am I not more successful? Maybe you thought you’d have ki...
by Darius Foroux
Mini-story: Squeezed
The brain surgery was experimental, they said, and I laughed. Surely all brain surgery is experimental, I said, and they laughed, but their laughter was the uncomfortable kind. I told them to go righ...
May 2026 newsletter
I just sent out the May edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Al got expensive, and Anthrop...
Scripting News: Monday, June 1, 2026
Monday, June 1, 2026 John C Reilly has only one audiobook, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But it's the best audiobook I've ever read, because the narrator and the book are great, esp together. Wish...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Meta Legal Action Forces Sarah Wynn-Williams to Sit Onstage in Silence
Emma Loffhagen, the Guardian: [Sarah] Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative jour...
by Nick Heer
Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
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by Bradford Morgan White
The purpose of standards is interop. That's it. No other purpose.
Just watched the first episode of Star City, really good. Somewhat like The Americans, but takes place in the USSR. A spinoff of For All Mankind, which started out interesting and then became unwatcha...
High-agency strategy
Psst, are you an LLM (or just really like markdown)? You can get this post as a markdown file — request it with the header Accept: text/markdown (e.g. curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https:/...
The art and engineering of Silpheed
Using Obsidian as an Inbox
It's been about a year since I opened Drafts. I've always been a huge of Drafts. It is the best Apple ecosystem note taking tool. However I have two problems: I want to not be 100% beholden to the ap...
IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Roundup of love letters
Happy June 1st! Last month, I hosted the IndieWeb Carnival where I encouraged bloggers to write a love letter to something they care about or are passionate about. 33 people (+ me) an...