Nice update to Menial’s excellent SQLite developer tool for the Mac. Worth the wait.
Cognitive resistance training is the defense against slop and brainrot. “Every hard task you delegate is a rep you didn’t do, a pattern your neurons didn’t carve deeper.”
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Daniel Day-Lewis stopped acting in 2017 after Phantom Thread. He’s unretired to star in a film called Anemone, co-written by Day-Lewis with his son Ronan Day-Lewis, who also directed. Here’s the trailer.
9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/apple-tv-subscription-price-increase/
New video game, just out:
Herdling is a brand new adventure from Okomotive, creators of the atmospheric and acclaimed FAR games, and Panic, publishers of Firewatch.
Looks absolutely beautiful. Painterly. Darth says it’s good.
Available now for Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Epic Games Store. Not (yet?) in the Mac App Store — not because of any hassles regarding the App Store, but because there’s not (yet?) a Mac port of the game, period.
Link: herdling.game/
I love stats like this: LeBron James has played against 35% of all of the players that have ever played in the NBA. I’m curious if there’s an older player who played with James in 2003 and how much of NBA history the two of them collectively span.
daringfireball.net/2025/08/msnbc_ms_now_rebranding#fn1-2025-08-20
Added this footnote just now to yesterday’s piece on MSNBC’s rebranding to “MS NOW”:
Historical pedantry: from 1975–1979, Microsoft spelled its name “Micro-Soft”, with, yes, an uppercase S. But that’s not camel-case, and that hyphenated spelling is as much a footnote to Microsoft’s brand history as the woodcut Isaac-Newton-under-a-tree logo is to Apple. Microsoft’s logo from that era was very disco-’70s and kind of cool — but while “Micro” and “Soft” were broken across two lines, there’s no hyphen in the logotype.
Link: daringfireball.net/2025/08/msnbc_ms_now_rebranding#fn1-2025…
William Maranci took Nine Inch Nails’ Closer and mashed it up with Ray Parker Jr’s theme song to Ghostbusters and it’s maybe a little bit genius and a little bit cursed? Like one commenter says, it’s “the musical equivalent of cats and dogs living together”.
See also Eminem’s Lose Yourself mashed up with ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky.
Tags: Ghostbusters · music · Nine Inch Nails · Ray Parker Jr. · remix · William Maranci
