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• John Gruber

Thomas Ptacek: ‘My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts’

fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/?ueid=4b93173967d7dc762529a10418e85007

Thomas Ptacek: LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google. They look things up themselves. Most importantly, they do...

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• John Gruber

A Long Lost Never-Published DF Post From 2014

daringfireball.net/linked/2014/06/01/lefsetz

I don’t use the web interface to Movable Type, my moribund-but-works-just-great CMS, very often. But I was using it today and noticed something odd. Next to the small-text metadata that says I’ve written 35,086 entries in total, it said I had one draft. One. I don’t use the ...

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• John Gruber

WorkOS

workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=q12025

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last 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.

New features they launched just last month include:

  • WorkOS Connect — “Sign in with [Your App]”
  • WorkOS Vault — Encryption Key Management (EKM) and Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK)
  • AuthKit Integrations — Native support for several new identity providers including LinkedIn, Slack, GitLab, BitBucket, Intuit, and more.

Future-proof your authentication stack with the identity layer trusted by OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, and Vercel.

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

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• John Gruber

Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74

facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10238073579963378&id=1378467145&_rdr

From his family, on Atkinson’s Facebook page: We regret to write that our beloved husband, father, and stepfather Bill Atkinson passed away on the night of Thursday, June 5th, 2025, due to pancreatic cancer. He was at home in Portola Valley in his bed, surrounded by fami...

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• John Gruber

Turns Out, Since 2023, You Can Use WhatsApp Across Multiple Phones

blog.whatsapp.com/one-whatsapp-account-now-across-multiple-phones

WhatsApp, on their official blog back in April 2023: Last year, we introduced the ability for users globally to message seamlessly across all their devices, while maintaining the same level of privacy and security. Today, we’re improving our multi-device offering furthe...

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• John Gruber

You Can Recharge Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack Without a Lightning Cable

daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-iphone-air-battery-case-or-pack

A brief follow-up to my love letter to Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack this week. I wrote: They’re the only Lightning devices left in my life and they’re so good I’m happy to still keep one Lightning cable in my travel bag to use them. Among its other unique ...

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• Jason Kottke

Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina

I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my favorite sculpture, Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina. A masterpiece. The photos both do and do not do it justice — so grateful to get to see it in person. Tags: art · Bernini · Rome · sculpture · travel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Rodent on the run returns

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Joy in China as Beanbag the Capybara returns after months on the run. The giant rodent's adventures had gripped social media. Also: an ingenious idea making cities greener; and the flatpack furniture world champion.

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Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

The installation of the pipes on the inside of the insulation can be challenging, especially when the neighbor could come home at any minute.

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• John Gruber

Take That CIRP Survey on Apple Customer Device Ownership With a Giant Grain of Salt

daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/06/cirp-survey-ipad-popularity#update

I posted this update a bit ago, but it’s worth making a separate post so you don’t miss it if you read the original post before I added the update:

It goes without saying that any consumer survey is only as good as the surveyor. But CIRP, in particular, has posted some dubious ones, to say the least. Jeff Johnson pointed out on Mastodon that back in 2023, CIRP published a survey that claimed the Mac Pro accounted for 43 percent of all Mac desktop sales, with the Mac Mini and Mac Studio each accounting for only 4 percent each. That’s just bananas. That’s not like maybe wrong, that’s not gotta be a little wrong, that’s how could anyone publish this? wrong. It’s hard to believe anything from CIRP after they published that.

Link: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/06/cirp-survey-ipad…

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• John Gruber

Markdown Support in Windows Notepad

theverge.com/news/677474/microsoft-windows-notepad-bold-italic-text-formatting-markdown-support?ueid=4b93173967d7dc762529a10418e85007

Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: “The experience supports Markdown style input and files for users who prefer to work directly with the lightweight markup language,” explains Dave Grochocki, principal product manager lead for Microsoft’s Windows inbox apps. “You can sw...

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• John Gruber

Gurman’s Mega-Spoiler Report on Monday’s WWDC Keynote

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/apple-wwdc-2025-preview-ios-26-macos-26-new-ai-features-ipados-26-redesigns

I think it’s become tradition for Mark Gurman to run a mega spoiler report on the WWDC keynote the Friday before. Don’t read it if you don’t want to see a lot of genuine spoilers. But here are a few non-spoilers: The AI changes will be surprisingly minor and are unlikely...

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• John Gruber

★ Truth Social Is Just Trump’s Blog

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch, “The Trump-Musk Feud Has Been Great for X, Which Jumped Up the App Store Charts”: The feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump may be bad for the MAGA camp, but it’s proven to be beneficial for X, which has seen engagement soaring over t...

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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event - here's my talks from October 2023 and June 2024. My topic this time was "The last six months in LLMs" - originally planned as the last yea...

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• John Gruber

CIRP Survey Suggests 78 Percent of All Apple Customers Own an iPad

9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/ipad-is-a-much-bigger-hit-than-you-probably-thought/

Ryan Christoffel, writing at 9to5Mac regarding a paywalled survey report from CIRP: CIRP recently performed a survey of Apple customers to get a sense of how the company’s three tentpole products — iPhone, iPad, and Mac — are performing. One focus was on understanding th...

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• WNYC Studios

The Elixir of Life

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Doctor and special correspondent, Avir Mitra takes Lulu on an epic journey live on stage at a little basement club called Caveat, here in New York. Starting with an ingredient in breastmilk that babies can’t digest, a global hunt that takes us from Bangladesh to the Mennonit...

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• John Gruber

Neven Mrgan on Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car

appdocumentary.com/2015/01/08/neven-mrgan-on-why-skeuomorphism-is-like-a-classic-car/

Jake Schumacher, director of the 2017 documentary App: The Human Story, sent me a note that Sebastiaan de With’s post this week, “Physicality: The New Age of UI” (my thoughts here), reminded him of a clip from the movie where Neven Mrgan compared Skeuomorphic design to classic cars from the 1940s and ’50s. So true. If you’ve got two and a half minutes to spare, watch this.

Link: appdocumentary.com/2015/01/08/neven-mrgan-on-why…

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• John Gruber

The Comma That Might Cost Apple Billions in Europe

cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/a-simple-comma-will-cost-apple-billion?r=6gzkf&triedRedirect=true

Jérôme Marin, writing at Cafétech: The disagreement between Apple and Brussels centers on Article 5.4. In its English version, the article states that the gatekeeper — the term used by the Commission for the seven major tech companies subject to the DMA — “shall allow bu...

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• John Gruber

9to5Mac on The Talk Show Livestream Returning to Theater for VisionOS

9to5mac.com/2025/06/05/theater-the-talk-show-live-3d/

Nice write-up from Zac Hall at 9to5Mac: Theater for visionOS premiered a year ago with a clever software launch campaign: exclusively streaming John Gruber’s The Talk Show post-WWDC event live with 3D video. The Apple Vision Pro app has continued to mature since its deb...

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• John Gruber

Theater Announces Immersive Livestream of The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025

sandwich.vision/press/partners/tts-live-2025-press-release.html

Sandwich Vision: Theater, the premier platform for spatial media, cinema and events on Apple Vision Pro, is proud to announce the immersive livestream of The Talk Show Live from WWDC on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. Following last year’s groundbreaking first-ever immersive li...