Ballot Guessr: “GeoGuessr for politics. See a Google Street View image, guess how the county voted in the 2024 presidential election.” (633/1000 on my first try…but I borked one of the guesses bc I forgot there was a time limit. 🙃)
AI Is Rewiring How the World’s Best Go Players Think. “Players now train to replicate AI’s moves as closely as they can rather than inventing their own, even when the machine’s thinking remains mysterious to them.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Marcin Wichary:
There are fun things you can do in software when it is aware of the dimensions and features of its hardware. [...]
The rule here would be, perhaps, a version of “show, don’t tell.” We could call it “point to, don’t describe.” (Describing what to do means cognitive effort to read the words and understand them. An arrow pointing to something should be easier to process.)
I just learned the word proprioception a few weeks ago, in the context of how you can close your eyes and put your fingertip on the tip of your nose. Perfect word for this sort of hardware/software integration too.
A printable zine: 50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor. “32. Picking up trash, generally, is a good way to meet neighbors. People notice. 33. Winter: Shovel someone’s sidewalk. It’s also great cardio.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/ill-take-beach-reading-for-1000-ken/
Jason Snell:
So here we are: Six Colors now has three Jeopardy! players as contributors.
Come on, Moltz, get your shit together.
Link: sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/ill-take-beach-reading-for-1000…
Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books is underway! “Every March, the Tournament of Books is a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
When I re-read my 2006 piece “And Oranges” today before linking to it, I paused when I read this:
And while it is easy to find ways to complain that Apple is not open enough — under-documented and undocumented security updates and system revisions, under-documented and undocumented file formats — it would be hard to argue with the premise that Apple today is more open than it has ever been before. (Exhibit A: the Web Kit project.)
It’s not often I get to fix 20-year-old typos, and to my 2026 self, “Web Kit” looks like an obvious typo. But after a moment, I remembered: in 2006, that wasn’t a typo.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/halide-cofounder-sebastiaan-de-with-joins-apples-design-team/
This photo of an Icelandic glacier is really something.
The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture. “Some people are early adopters; others are late adopters. I’m simply a weirdly resistant one.”
There are at least 60 Pizza Hut Classics (red roofs, checkered tablecloths, salad bar) in the US…but the company does nothing to promote them. “They are like wormholes in the chain restaurant galaxy, portals to the past found by serendipity.”
From There I Ruined It, a version of Toto’s Africa but the lyrics are a listing of every country in Africa. They should teach this in American middle schools, not even joking.
See also Coach from Cheers singing Al-ban-i-a (a song that pops into my head every time I read or hear about that county):
