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John Gruber

‘40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History’

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Alissa Falcone, in a good piece looking back at (my alma mater) Drexel University’s groundbreaking deal with Apple 40 years ago to provide deeply discounted Macintoshes to all students, and integrate them throughout the campus and curriculums: Drexel was prepared to buy ...

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I started sorting out my blog posting workflow again. Ever since the Git-based CMSes stopped working, I posted considerably less. I’m using Jekyll to build this site; and creating a file, adding all the frontmatter, making a Git commit and pushing the repo is just too much overhead for me.

So now I have started to automate all those above steps. For now, this works on iOS/iPadOS for my Notes. I currently start writing in the Drafts app; then I can trigger one Shortcut which handles everything else for me via the Working Copy app. And Gitlab CI builds the page as usual.

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Jason Kottke

If you’re mad as hell, one thing you can do is run...

If you’re mad as hell, one thing you can do is run for elected office. Run For Something recruits & supports “young, diverse progressives to run for down-ballot races in order to build sustainable power for Democrats in all 50 states”.

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John Gruber

My 2015 Interview With ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ Authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

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Ten years ago I played two small roles in the release of the aforelinked Becoming Steve Jobs. First, I got to announce the book here at Daring Fireball, after having been sent an advance copy a few weeks earlier. My praise for the book then was glowing, but in hindsight, I t...

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John Gruber

The Original ‘Something’s Rotten in Cupertino’ — Brent Schlender’s 1997 Story for Fortune

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During Friday’s episode of Dithering — a free listen — Ben Thompson reminded me that my headline reference last week, alluding to the well-known line from Hamlet, had been used, to great effect, once before. Brent Schlender wrote a crackerjack piece for Fortune in March 1997...

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Jason Kottke

A really important point from Masha Gessen about the Trumpist attacks on...

A really important point from Masha Gessen about the Trumpist attacks on (and “denationalization” of) trans people: “The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others.” 🎯🎯🎯

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Jason Kottke

A good, long piece from Thomas Zimmer about how we “underestimated the...

A good, long piece from Thomas Zimmer about how we “underestimated the Trumpist threat and overestimated how resilient both the political system as well as American civil society would be…that is something we all need to grapple with in earnest.”

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Jason Kottke

Timothy Snyder on the terrifying deportations being undertaken by the Trump regime....

Timothy Snyder on the terrifying deportations being undertaken by the Trump regime. This is a prelude to any American being stripped of citizenship and expelled from the country for any reason (protesting, faving the wrong photo, using pronouns).

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Jason Kottke

The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse. John Green,...

The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse. John Green, author of Everything Is Tuberculosis, warns that the Trump regime’s gutting of international aid and scientific funding will result in more death & suffering from tuberculosis.

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Jason Kottke

Canada is so furious at the US right now. “Everything Trump has...

Canada is so furious at the US right now. “Everything Trump has said and done has led to a level of rage and defiance that I think very few Americans fully appreciate.” And rightly so!

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I know having so many base pairs makes rebasing complicated, but you're in Bilateria, so shouldn't you at LEAST be better at using git head?

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John Gruber

Dithering: ‘Being Real Points’

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The March 2025 cover art for Dithering, showing a man, high atop a cityscape, precariously crossing a high wire.

A new feature in our membership CMS (Passport — check it out) lets us make individual episodes of Dithering free for everyone to listen to (on the web). I can’t think of a better way to first use this new capability than to open up Friday’s episode, recapping my “Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino” article, and the resonance with which it hit. Even the cover art — selected weeks ago — captures how I’ve felt this week.

Give it a listen. Subscribe if you enjoy it.

Link: dithering.passport.online/member/episode/being-real-points

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Jason Kottke

Beginning April 20, Pride & Prejudice (w/ Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen)...

Beginning April 20, Pride & Prejudice (w/ Keira Knightley & Matthew Macfadyen) is heading back to US theaters to mark the 20th anniversary of its release.

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Jason Kottke

Something new from Radiohead on the horizon? Radiohead Members Form New LLP,...

Something new from Radiohead on the horizon? Radiohead Members Form New LLP, Historically a Telltale Sign of New Activity. New album? Reissue? Tour?

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Jason Kottke

Ross Andersen writes thoughtfully about LeBron James’ protectiveness of his son Bronny...

Ross Andersen writes thoughtfully about LeBron James’ protectiveness of his son Bronny James and accusations of nepotism. “The emotions of parenthood are gigantic. They can knock anyone off their game, even the great LeBron James.”

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John Gruber

★ A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting

My post Friday commenting (read: wise-cracking) on Mark Gurman’s explosive report on an all-hands Siri team meeting at Apple was begging for a bit of meta commentary on the reporting itself. But I’ve been doing so much of that regarding Gurman lately that I thought it best t...

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#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace

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Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Hindi, Russian (and soon other languages). Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided (for the main episode video on YouTube) in English, Hindi, Russian, and the original mi...

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John Gruber

WorkOS: Scalable, Secure Authentication

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My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this week at DF. Modern authentication should be seamless and secure. WorkOS makes it easy to integrate features like MFA, SSO, and RBAC.

Whether you’re replacing passwords, stopping fraud, or adding enterprise auth, WorkOS can help you build frictionless auth that scales. Future-proof your authentication stack with the identity layer trusted by OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, and Vercel. Upgrade your auth today.

Link: workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS&utm…

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John Gruber

How to Generate a Report of Apple Intelligence Requests Sent to Private Cloud Compute

support.apple.com/guide/iphone/apple-intelligence-and-privacy-iphe3f499e0e/ios

From Apple’s support documentation: You can generate a report of requests your iPhone has sent to Private Cloud Compute. Go to Settings, then tap Privacy & Security. Tap Apple Intelligence Report, then choose a report duration for the last 15 minutes (default) or ...

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John Gruber

New RCS Spec From GSM Association Adds E2EE; Both Apple and Google to Support It

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Jess Weatherbed, reporting for The Verge: iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE ba...