OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode
OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode OpenAI first teased this in February, but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Busin...
June 5, 2026
49 articles
Sprinter Van Phone Mount + Better CarPlay-Compatible Cable Situation
This is the stock look of my 2021 Sprinter van front console area: If it’s not obvious, there’s no great place for a phone. You’ve got the cup holders. Those are actually...
by Chris Coyier
Insane 4th quarter. Heartbreaking final 10 seconds. 🏀
Almost glad I’m not at the game because too many Knicks fans in San Antonio. Tough series so far. Spurs played better in game 1 but couldn’t get the win. Knicks playing better so far in game 2. One mo...
Sirius Pomodoro
Zac Hall: The third most popular free iPhone app in the U.S. App Store today is a mysterious productivity app that’s only available in Russian. That’s a pretty obvious red flag that somet...
by Michael Tsai
CloudKit Bugs in May 2026
Jaanus Kase (Mastodon): We deployed direct silent CloudKit notifications in Tact in late 2024. They proved to be too unreliable to use in a messaging app like Tact: notifications arrived late or not...
by Michael Tsai
Permissions in the CloudKit Public Database
Guilherme Rambo: When using the public database for content hosting or feature flags, you don’t want any random iCloud user to have the rights to publish or edit content on your behalf or to ch...
by Michael Tsai
When the train becomes a limo
Sometimes Sydney Trains runs a special train, just for me! Or at least, I pretend they do. How luxurious. As an aside, for those of you who live in cities with double deck train carriages, do you sit...
by Ruben Schade
Why I don't use story points
I haven't thrown points since I left Pivotal. I'm not philosophically opposed to them, I just haven't actually been in a situation where I thought they were worth the cost of getting a...
by Nat Bennett
[GR02.05] camellias, several
Taken December 26, 202240mm 1/250 sec f/2.0 ISO 100In the years I lived in Oakland and Berkeley one of my running projects was camellias. They bloom in the winter when I need something that gets me ou...
by Nat Bennett
WCEU
Cześć wszystkim, Kraków… I made the call not to fly to Poland for WordCamp Europe. I’m very sorry for the last-minute notice; I was really hoping to make it. I’m okay, but I want to stay...
by Matt
Quietly getting on with being the greatest ever.
Quietly getting on with being the greatest ever. img{-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;} table, td{mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;} .mceStandardButton, .mceStandardButton td, .mceStanda...
Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they're working on it.
Elon Musk's X
I'm using EMX more than Bluesky, consciously -- realizing it was a mistake to move my social web act over there. There's no discourse to keep me there so I'm giving it less of my bandwidth. I tried a...
Best-o-Masto comes to the web
I love Best-o-Masto, my iPhone app for browsing the most popular posts in your feed, but I'm not always on my phone. That's why today I'm happy to announce Best-o-Masto is available on...
by Matt Birchler
2026.23: Power Shifts
(Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bund...
by Ben Thompson
It's really cool we get another NBA Finals game tonight. I'm rehearsing what it feels like to be a fan of the Eastern Conference Champion NY Knicks. It still hasn't even slightly sunk in yet.
Sanctioned Russian Bank VTB Sneaked an App Into the App Store
Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: But on Friday morning, a random productivity app called Cириус broke into the top three. […] The reality seems to be that the app is a Russian banking app disguised as...
by Nick Heer
I did the Standard.site thing
It seems like everyone is integrating Standard.site on their personal websites (and beyond) at the moment. It’s mainly been encouraged by Bluesky’s recent update to the treatment of sites integrated...
I didn’t expect Google of all companies would need to rent server space from SpaceX. I wonder how they’re preparing to accommodate the new Gemini-powered Siri, too.
I don’t listen to Pivot regularly anymore, because I need a break from politics, but sometimes Scott Galloway captures an idea perfectly: The ultimate luxury item isn’t a home in Aspen or a Gulfstrea...
My tech stack is in flux, trying to...
My tech stack is in flux, trying to settle… Now leaning into local-first computing with a mix of some cloud stuff… Consolidating my files/data at the local folder level… Aiming for simplicity, ubiq...
Anthropic Calls for Pausing Frontier AI Development as It Files for IPO
Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, in a very long article on Anthropic’s website: The technical trends discussed in this piece suggest that AI systems are going to become much more capable in coming years...
Google Joins Anthropic in Leasing Compute from SpaceX/xAI
Sean O’Kane, Techcrunch: SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday. Under the te...
WWDC26 Bingo
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by BasicAppleGuy
The fewest enabled features security model
Calling this a security model is probably a stretch, but the first thing I do when installing any web-facing software is determine which features I can remove, disable, or otherwise make unavailable....
by Ruben Schade
5th June 2026 at 14:15
New pen day! Navalhur Original Plus Azureus Blue w/ Herbin Violette Pensee Retro 51 Dino Smash Tornado 323/751 plus Dino Smash Rickshaw sleeve
by Robb Knight
Save the Date
Akash Wadhwani has put together something really cool — a full history of WWDC invites.
Barry Hess
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Barry Hess, whose blog can be found at bjhess.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsle...
by [email protected] (Manuel Moreale)
My new 40 mega pixel test camera, the Fujifilm X-E5
My new 40 mega pixel test camera, the Fujifilm X-E5 Today I received my new 40 mega pixel test camera, the Fujifilm, X-E5 with Fujinon XF 23mm f2.8 R WR. I am looking forward testing this beautifu...
by Malte
How and Why I Shoot Documentary Family Sessions
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by Kevin Mullins
Anthropic self-improvement, pause
This article about recursive self-improvement from Anthropic is fascinating. Lots of good info in it. But I’m not sure I can take this part seriously: We believe it would be good for the world...
Quoting Andreas Kling
We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...] A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds....
Ia Hanya Mempersembahkan Kotoran kepada Dunia
Grenouille muda adalah kutu seperti itu. Dia hidup dengan menggelung rapat-rapat dirinya dan menunggu saat-saat yang lebih baik. Dia tidak memberikan apa-apa kepada dunia selain kotorannya—tidak seny...
by sekar
Great point by JA Westenberg about AI indecision. I’ve noticed this too: But ask again, and keep asking, and it’ll offer a balance and then immediately surface the conditions under which the re...
The Fitbit Air's Sleep Tracking is Trying to Keep Me Up at Night
I’ve worn an Apple Watch for sleep tracking for ages, using our very own Sleep++. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve also been wearing a Fitbit Air, slowly taking notes for a full review. So far, the...
The Giant's Cup
I recently completed my first long trail race, set in the Southern Drakensberg mountains with Emma, my siblings and their partners. It spanned 2 days with 30km on the first, and 15km on the second, wi...
by herman
Attribution in the Browser: Who Really Benefits from Google and Meta’s New Privacy Standard
Google, Meta and the unlikely addition of Mozilla are teaming up to work on a browser W3 specification that would add browser user agent features to track impression, click data and ‘conversion...
by James O'Claire
Silicon Valley’s Biggest Payday. Yet!
The SpaceX cap table, what it is worth, and what happens next. On June 12, a great many people become extraordinarily wealthy. Not one of them can sell a share until December — with one except...
by Om Malik
Documents Show Social Media Companies Specifically Marketed to Schoolchildren
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, New York Times: Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ men...
by Nick Heer
Do We Need Billionaires?
A significant portion of the population in the USA still thinks of Reaganomics as certified fact rather than a largely discredited theory. By this mindset the engine of our economy requires people...
Peta Kompetensi Akademik Indonesia: Apa yang Sesungguhnya Terjadi?
Beberapa hari yang lalu Kemendikdasmen mengumumkan hasil TKA untuk SD dan SMP, sebelumnya akhir tahun lalu hasil TKA SMA juga sudah diumumkan. Perhatian publik biasanya langsung tertuju pada siapa ya...
by hasanuddinali
Scripting News: Friday, June 5, 2026
Friday, June 5, 2026 Google could do a mixture of AI and search. I want to search my blog for a place where I discuss the idea of hate is betrayed love even if I don't use the actual words. I bet they...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Not-Yet-Enabled Code Added to Meta A.I. App for Glasses-Based Facial Recognition Feature
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, Wired: Meta has quietly embedded face-recognition technology for its smart glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones, according to a WIRED analysis of t...
by Nick Heer
Scenes Seen/Photo Dump: GFX + ROKKOR 58mm f/1.2.
Scenes Seen/Photo Dump: GFX + ROKKOR 58mm f/1.2. Some Father & Son Gallivanting, A Trip To Chorus Rehearsal, A STtp By The Continental Club to meet with friends, and Other Locals. The motiv...
by Eric L. Woods
Scenes Seen Photo Dump: FUJIFILM X100VI.
Scenes Seen Photo Dump: FUJIFILM X100VI. <Invoke cut and paste from a prior post.> Subtitle: Gimmicks, hype, supply issue driven price gouging, and instathreadface darling pixie dust set...
by Eric L. Woods
Scenes Seen/Robert Carl Swann Photo Session BTS Day 2: GFX + Minolta ROKKOR 58mm f/1.2.
Scenes Seen/Robert Carl Swann Photo Session Day 1: GFX + Minolta ROKKOR 58mm f/1.2. @anacostian @stitchphotographic @biebiebelt venue @r3becca_bird.@fujifilmx_us #fujifilmgfx50r&nb...
by Eric L. Woods
The Intent Debt
Technical debt lives in your code. Cognitive debt lives in your head. Intent debt lives in the artifacts you may have never wrote: the goals, constraints, and rationale for why the system is the way i...
Signals #003: Courtesy, Character, and the Collapse of Distinction
Introduction There’s a pattern emerging across disparate domains: the collapse of meaningful distinction. Swiss watches stopped being precision instruments and became billboards. AI-generated...
by Christopher Butler