Stephen Hackett first reported this yesterday and it was so wild I almost didn't believe it at first. After some searching online, it seems that this folder was generated by Logi Options+, the software that came with my mouse, the Logitech MX Master 3S. Version 1. | Continue reading
David Pierce for The Verge: Rabbit R1 Hands-On: Early Tests With the $199 AI Gadget Almost immediately, though, I started running into stuff the R1 just can’t do. It can’t send emails or make spreadsheets, though Lyu has been demoing both for months. And: Rabbit’ | Continue reading
Ming-Chi Kuo used to just provide supply chain data and he was remarkably reliable at that. Then he moved into more general punditry, and honestly it feels like things are off the rails enough that I find it hard to take his data seriously without looking into it further. The | Continue reading
Justin Jackson: We Need More Calm Companies A calm company's purpose is to provide exceptional service to customers while simultaneously improving the lives of the people who work there. I love this, and it’s good to be reminded that there are many companies out there that | Continue reading
Today we dive into why LEGO has unexpectedly become my go-to hobby over the past couple years. | Continue reading
I see more people than I’d expect suggesting that enabling digital wallets for payments on the iPhone is massively dangerous and would lead to widespread fraud and I’ve even seen suggestions that these wallets would charge users a service fee to run all transactions. I’ | Continue reading
I looked at how much electricity ChatGPT is supposed to use and compared it to some other items. From that perspective, it doesn't seem that crazy. | Continue reading
The first few emulators hit the App Store this week and while two of them were promptly removed (for different reasons, neither of which were because emulation is wrong), Delta seems to be quite good (I’m still using it for the first time so too early to say | Continue reading
I was recently doing some research on a post that never quite came together in a cohesive thought. However, I did come across this quote from Ben Thompson on how he would define the iPhone’s market: the high-end smartphone market — that is, the iPhone market — is | Continue reading
Ben Thompson on Stratechery: MKBHDs for Everything Surely the responsibility for the Humane AI Pin lies with Humane; the people who benefited from Brownlee’s honesty were his viewers, the only people to whom Brownlee owes anything. To think of this review — or even just the title … | Continue reading
How the world of social media made it so you could reach more people than ever, but that 1,000 true fans concept hasn't really changed. | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: Apple Further Explains Why Game Boy Emulator iGBA Was Removed From App Store While it did not explicitly name GBA4iOS, Apple told us it removed iGBA from the App Store after learning that it was a knockoff app that copied another developer's work and | Continue reading
I have found myself writing about myths and what I find to be unfounded fears about allowing companies to compete with Apple’s apps a lot recently. One of the concerns a few people brought up with my last post about competition was that even if it might make | Continue reading
Francesco on his blog: Wishing for a Better Apple Notes It’s fair to say that Notes has received substantial updates in the last few years. […] The app is almost perfect, I can scan and edit PDFs, write or draw with the Apple Pencil, organise notes with folder | Continue reading
Below is a cleaned up transcript of a talk I recently gave at work to an audience of mostly developers. I used Claude (Opus) to clean up the transcript and have edited out some sections due to discussions of our internal systems. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the very succinctly t … | Continue reading
Alex Abad-Santos for Vox: What if an Animated X-Men Series Is the X-Men’s Best Future? The stuff in between the lightning bolts, telekinesis, and super strength is what matters. It’s hard for me to overstate how good X-Men ’97 really is. This week’s | Continue reading
Jason Koebler for 404 Media: Apple Announces Half Measure to Make iPhones More Repairable Immediately After Law Banned Its Repair Practices What this means, practically, is that Apple will let you swap the screen of one iPhone with the screen of another iPhone, something that was … | Continue reading
Jason Snell for MacWorld: Call Apple Vision Pro a flop at your own risk Today, we are so tech-savvy as a society that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be on the ground floor of a barely feasible product category. And yet, that’s just | Continue reading
In this new series, I’m working out thoughts before I’ve figured out what I really think. Today is about the fundamental issue holding back the Humane Pin (despite the AI silliness). | Continue reading
Forgive the lengthy quotes in this post. These are from a podcast, and people are more verbose when speaking than when writing. I've chosen not to edit them down to make sure you get the full answer. I was listening to The Vergecast this week and a caller | Continue reading
What a day! We’ve got 3 links I’m pushing through as an omnibus post. Benj Edwards for ArsTechnica: Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the imminent rise in AI superintelligence | Continue reading
Today we're diving into how to design an effective modal interface, why button text really matters, and a few cool links with data that might surprise you. | Continue reading
It’s been almost exactly a year since my last wallpaper pack. I’m not really in the wallpaper game anymore, largely because I’m just not as talented a graphical artist as many others out there, and I just find myself using other people’s | Continue reading
Jason Koebler writing for 404Media: Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend In all of these cases except for a blissful few years where Opera was easily better than Chrome, using a Google alternative felt like I was making a personal sacrifice by using an inferior … | Continue reading
I was reading the most recent Club MacSrories and this paragraph got me thinking… The reasons why Apple is so hesitant to compete more directly with a broader segment of the videogame industry are as much a mystery today as ever. However, the rise of handheld gaming | Continue reading
Apple updated their App Store guidelines this week to allow game emulators for “retro games”. Great news! Right? Samuel Axon of ArsTechnica isn’t so sure: It's a little fuzzy how this will play out, but it may not allow the kind of emulators you | Continue reading
Samantha Nelson writing for Polygon: America Made Godzilla a Superhero. In Japan, He’s Still a Monster. Godzilla has evolved considerably from his 1954 Japanese debut to the latest franchise installment, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And in his most recent incarnations, clear … | Continue reading
I've said before that wearing a headset is fundamentally annoying, and headsets need to deliver experiences that are so compelling that they make that annoyance worth it. Playing Half Life Alyx was absolutely, unquestionably the most compelling experience I've ever had with a hea … | Continue reading
Home With The Armadillo: Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion Essentially, the “follow” feature allows Substack to hold writers (and readers) hostage on their platform, forcing them to operate in a closed-content ecosystem that predominantly benefits Subst … | Continue reading
What do I use chatbots to actually do day to day? People are always so vague about this stuff, so let's go into my real search history and find out what I find them useful for. | Continue reading
Warner Bros has announced they’re making a fifth Matrix film, not with either of the Wachowskis, but with Drew Goddard writing and directing. He’s best known for writing The Martian’s adaptation and writing/directing Cabin in the Woods. Here’s my top 4 | Continue reading
Meta rolled out federation to users in the US, Canada, and Japan recently, and it's opt in, which I think is the right way to do it, even if it means it's going to take a while for most accounts to enable it. I have tried | Continue reading
No intro, let’s just get into it! More icons It’s not the most important thing in the world, but I’d love to see iOS 18 bring with it the ability to create a tighter grid of icons on my iPhone’s home screen. | Continue reading
You probably got to this post because you Googled some question about what exactly “the fediverse” is, what “ActivityPub” actually means, or what would happen if you turned on federation on your Threads account today. I’m not going to get into the technical weeds | Continue reading
They say you don't know what you have until it's gone, and I gotta be honest, that's how I'm feeling about the iPad right now. I sold my iPad Pro to help pay for my Vision Pro. Part of my rationale was | Continue reading
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s Immersive Video Problem Now, having seen the video, I have a few more observations. The first is that I don’t think the new video is very good. Oh, sure, the individual shots can be impressive. […] The problem is that, | Continue reading
Benj Edwards writing for ArsTechnica: “The King Is Dead”—Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the First Time On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena | Continue reading
Jeanna Kadlec on Threads Substack is completely gutting their business right now. Every writer I know is seeing our subscriptions plummet as our “follower” count rises. The whole value proposition of Substack is that it’s a newsletter and writer hub. This latest intervention is i … | Continue reading
Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in Real Life The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your face, as others have noted. But using it is also cognitively more complex than just watching TV while doing some work on a phone or laptop. I spent a | Continue reading
A short story of a broken furnace, a wealth of information, and the need for experts to save the day. Oh, and the most badass portfolio site I've ever seen. | Continue reading
404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most common request we’ve gotten from our subscribers is for an RSS feed that contains the full text of all of our articles. We are proud and excited to | Continue reading
Joe Rosensteel: It’s Time for a New AirPort networking underpins everything that Apple does care about. Every Mac, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro, and most importantly every iPhone. The iPhone is a cellular device, but when you’re at home, you’re on your Wi-Fi | Continue reading
Well, it seems like transaction info is something people are more interested in than I expected, so I wanted to tackle one more thing. So often in App Store discussions, we talk about Apple’s 30% cut of each in-app purchase on iPhones and how that’s so | Continue reading
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works. | Continue reading
I’m no lawyer, and I’m not going to pretend I’m one, so don’t expect me to make any confident legal clams here. That said, I did read the 88-page suit (PDF) against Apple and I have some thoughts. Oh, I also haven& | Continue reading
Some thoughts about my side projects and (if you'll forgive me) how much joy they currently spark. | Continue reading
This (shockingly low res) view went up yesterday and shows what the user experience will be like for Threads users when they want to opt into the fediverse. There are so many interesting details here, and honestly I think Meta is doing a fantastic job with how this is being | Continue reading
I think Claude is an underrated contender in the chatbot wars we're currently living through, but they don't have an iOS app. That's not the end of the world as you can save it as a web app to your home screen and get | Continue reading