Siri AI at WWDC 2026
Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict "I'll believe it when I see it" policy for everything they ann...
June 8, 2026
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Long day but really good day. Felt like it had a little bit of everything. Still coming down after that Spurs game, really good. Tomorrow need to unpack a little more of what I glossed over during the...
Monitoring my restic backups with Uptime Kuma
I have a couple of restic backup containers running across my servers, all based on the resticker image. It’s a basic part of every server configuration I use. Backups are executed on cron sched...
Small OS27 Details From WWDC
Today’s live stream was a little over an hour long — the shortest presentation since 2005 — but, if this big list of refinements captured by Jonathan Reed, of MacStories, is representative of wh...
by Nick Heer
#Vietnam2026 Ho Chi Minh City wanderings
Today was our first full day in Ho Chi Minh City again on this trip, and the weather almost held out for the whole day! It was humid and sticky, just like I remembered every day in Singapore feeling....
by Ruben Schade
Taking a Few Days Off
I am taking a few days off. No posts here, no newsletter, no notes from the road. Things will be quiet on om.co until I am back. The last few months have been heavy on output. Essays, the newslett...
by Om Malik
Meta Says A.I.-assisted Account Hijackings Began in April
Zack Whittaker, This Week in Security: According to the data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general’s office late on Friday, Meta notified at least 20,225 people that their...
by Nick Heer
Sometimes you write a post and when you're editing it you realize you no longer support what you wrote. This is one of those times.
macOS Golden Gate Adventure
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by BasicAppleGuy
Meta Removes Code It Added to Support Facial Recognition Feature That ‘Does Not Exist’
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, Wired: One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the...
by Nick Heer
An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcementby The Document FoundationThe Document Foundation shares its history to rebuke claims made by Euro-Of...
Fitness challenge underway
A few weeks ago, I was at my brother’s place, watching NBA, and amongst other things, I was teasing him about the fact that he’s putting up weight. Which is just a fact. But he’s also in his...
by [email protected] (Manuel Moreale)
WWDC26 summary — three parts: Overall platform refinements,...
WWDC26 summary — three parts: Overall platform refinements, Trust/Safety, AI. Nice, mostly minor, refinements. Better ScreenTime for kids. New Siri is better. Overall impression: “Meh.” Is all this...
Go Spurs Go! Big game in NY. Found a sports bar to watch a little while in San Jose. Mostly Knicks fans here but a few Spurs fans too. 🏀
A Wake Up Call
When I first met my wife, around seven years ago, she was what I would call a typical internet user. She was glued to Facebook and Pinterest and spent a lot of time curating her feeds and her image. S...
by Brandon
Sisi gelap dan terang beasiswa di Indonesia
Beberapa bulan lalu ramai netizen mendiskusikan terkait dengan penyalahgunaan beasiswa, terkhusus LPDP. Ada yang mempermasalahkan soal jurusan yang mereka ambil. Ada juga yang mempermasalahkan isu bra...
by disil
WWDC 2026 Keynote
Joe Rossignol: Ahead of the WWDC 2026 keynote at 10 a.m. Pacific Time today, Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared a short video in which country singer Lainey Wilson, actress Rhea Seehorn, DJ and producer Z...
by Michael Tsai
OpenAI announces draft S-1 in an oddly direct, brief blog post: We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it. We have not decided on timing yet; it may b...
Catching up from yesterday’s post from John Gruber about SwiftUI: There’s something really wrong with SwiftUI. Amongst the apps I use, the best example is Apple Journal. Basic stuff that’s work...
Designing the AI‑native engineering organization with 1Password, Microsoft and Atlassian
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.Abi Noda is joined live at DX Annual by three engineering leaders shaping AI adoption at scale: Tim Bozarth, Corporate Vice President in Microsoft&#...
Beyond AI tools: Evolving software engineering organizations for the agentic era
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.Jennifer St Pierre is Senior Vice President of Developer Experience and Transformation at Dell Technologies, where she leads the strategy for how De...
Mapping the new SDLC at BNY: Codifying AI into every step of the delivery lifecycle (Jason Valentino)
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.Jason Valentino is Head of Software Engineering Strategy at BNY, where he oversees developer tooling, DevEx, platform workflows, and software delive...
by Justin Reock
The current impact of AI on engineering velocity
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.Recorded live at DX Annual, Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO of DX, joins Brian Houck of Microsoft to share an early look at DX’s new research on...
by Justin Reock
WWDC26: macOS 27 Golden Gate's Default Wallpaper
Every year, the new version of macOS ships with at least one new default wallpaper. macOS 27 Golden Gate continues that tradition. Golden Gate Light Gol...
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So I've been listening to #Spotify most of the day while working. Instead of playing my liked songs, I've just let it play whatever. This is the way! It's been banger after banger...
Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.
WWDC26: Apple Watch Ultra 1 and SE 2 Dropped from watchOS 27
As spotted by MacRumors, the system requirements for watchOS 27 are pretty steep: Apple today confirmed that watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra (first generation)...
WWDC26: Tim Cook's Closing Reflections
Today’s keynote didn’t include a formal handoff between Tim Cook and John Ternus (who wasn’t even in the video), but Cook did offer some closing remarks. As is his style, it was more about Apple than...
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Do you want an all-in-one solution to block ads, trackers, and annoyances across all your Apple devices? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock — the ad blocker designed for you. With Magic Lasso Adblo...
by Nick Heer
WWDC26: A New Kind of Keynote
The WWDC keynote just wrapped up, and it was startlingly different. For years, Apple has gone through each of its operating systems, highlighting features it was bringing to each one. That had broken...
Seeing this screenshot on Mastodon from Finn Voorhees, sounds like Apple doesn’t want big companies to use private cloud compute. Which means it probably won’t even work with Mac apps like...
I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of t...
I seem to be microblogging a little more than usual for the keynote, so decided to create a category on my blog for WWDC 2026 posts.
A New, Better Way to Learn
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Where Can I Watch? 1.4.0: Today, and Detail Pages Everywhere
Where Can I Watch? 1.4.0 is out, and it’s one of the bigger releases since launch. Two ideas drove most of the work: making Today its own top-level tab, and giving Episode Detail a consistent h...
by Tom
The first "Quick" app wasn't Quick Reviews
I'd actually forgotten about this, but the first thing I ever made that was in my "Quick" collection wasn't actually Quick Reviews, it was QuickPin! As I wrote in 2016, QuickPin wa...
by Matt Birchler
How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a...
by @edent
9to5Mac confirming what I thought I heard during the keynote: 8 GB devices are out for on-device AI. I think it’s the right call… Apple’s old models were just too small. But it&rsqu...
Expanding Apple Foundation Models to support image inputs and running in private cloud compute is a huge upgrade. The old models really weren’t capable enough for me, which is why I’m expe...
I feel bad saying this for all the Apple employees who dedicated so many hours preparing for WWDC, but I lose interest after an hour. Perfect keynote length would be about 70 minutes, not 100.
Fujifilm X100VI Review: Two Years On
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by Kevin Mullins
Apple didn’t try to take on too much with Siri AI. Only features they could actually ship. It looks good, but long term I still think using apps is the wrong strategy for assistants, because the...
I like in these Siri AI demos that they are doing things “live” (though recorded). It’s not fast, but it seems much more clearly actually working without edits.
WWDC26: As Foretold, macOS 27 Golden Gate Drops Intel Support
Apple had previously announced that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the last release to support Intel-based Macs: macOS Tahoe will be the last release for Intel-based Mac computers. Those systems will contin...
A little surprised Apple is spending so much time in the keynote on safety for kids. It’s good, though! Thinking it helps set the stage for all the age-related laws from states, and we’ll return to sa...
In my apps Inkwell and Micro.blog 4.0, I put a semi-opaque view under the toolbar to improve readability on macOS 26. Maybe won’t be needed in macOS Golden Gate. Expecting we’ll need little tweaks for...
Looks like good refinements to Liquid Glass on Mac. Also, feels almost bold to name this release Golden Gate. Maybe this’ll be a big one.
Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics
Google's deal with SpaceX, and Broadcom's earnings, both seem bullish for Nvidia. Then, what I'm looking for at WWDC.
by Ben Thompson
Which Money Tree Are You? (Quiz)
A friend of mine recently launched a quiz to determine which of the 5 money trees you are, and, so, of course I had to take it because IT’S A QUIZ ABOUT MONEY! Here it is if you’re too exc...
by J. Money
Coffee this morning at Voltaire in San Jose. For a moment, I considered walking back to the hotel with my laptop cracked open to let AI finish what it was working on… That would be too perfectl...
Om Malik with a great blog post exploring Anthropic’s naming for Mythos and Project Glasswing: Project Glasswing is the same move. The name suggests something fragile and transparent, a butterf...
I Love F1
I Love F1by Gordon McLeanGordon has been hooked on F1 for 45 years, from childhood memories of Murray Walker to booking a trip to the Madrid GP. It’s a great look at how much the...
Even though I tell myself I’m getting old and jaded, with more complaints about Apple than hopes, it’s an hour before the keynote and I’m excited. Most of us are developers because w...
#Vietnam2026 Arriving in Ho Chi Minh City
My inlaws and I had so much fun in Vietnam last year that we deciced to come back again, if only for a short week this time owing to available leave and other commitments. The plan this week is to sta...
by Ruben Schade
You Don't Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain
There’s a lot of hype about accessing DuckDuckGo via its “noai” subdomain. It works, but there’s a better way. Instead of using a special domain to access DuckDuckGo, a method...
by Chris Wiegman
Mini-story: The Ministry
In London, only a few minutes’ walk from the Ministry of Defence, Downing Street, and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, there is a building which blends in perfectly with those around it. The sa...
Scenes Seen: A Low Rider Show – Digital Edit
Scenes Seen: A Low Rider Show – Digital Edit. Cesar… View this post on Instagram …sent me the flyer for a Saturday lowrider show nearby. That is always a ye...
by Eric L. Woods
Scripting News: Monday, June 8, 2026
Monday, June 8, 2026 Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.# I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Gamers make me embarrassed to be a gamer
A new God of War game was announced recently, God of War: Laufey, which doesn't star series lead Kratos, it stars his dead wife Laufey, who passed away right before the start of the 2018 game. Of...
by Matt Birchler
A Few Good Things - Vol. 22
C4 Reeses Protein Powder I tend to avoid non-clear protein powder these days. I'm just not interested in the milkshake vibes I get from it. However, I do keep some on hand to make protein ice...
by Brandon
Merelakan Kecewa
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by Budi Rahardjo
Quick Look: Obsidian Notebook Navigator
In my last post on Obsidian I talked about the problem of getting an inbox to obsidian on mobile. What I haven't covered is processing and writing those captures. While the reason to use Drafts.app i...