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Expanding Apple Foundation Models to support image inputs and running in private cloud compute is a huge upgrade. The old models really weren’t capable enough for me, which is why I’m experimenting with bundling Gemma 4 directly in the Micro.blog app.

I feel bad saying this for all the Apple employees who dedicated so many hours preparing for WWDC, but I lose interest after an hour. Perfect keynote length would be about 70 minutes, not 100.

Apple didn’t try to take on too much with Siri AI. Only features they could actually ship. It looks good, but long term I still think using apps is the wrong strategy for assistants, because they can’t work well across platforms. It’ll work for now, and for privacy some people will prefer it.

I like in these Siri AI demos that they are doing things “live” (though recorded). It’s not fast, but it seems much more clearly actually working without edits.

A little surprised Apple is spending so much time in the keynote on safety for kids. It’s good, though! Thinking it helps set the stage for all the age-related laws from states, and we’ll return to safety and privacy during the Siri section later.

In my apps Inkwell and Micro.blog 4.0, I put a semi-opaque view under the toolbar to improve readability on macOS 26. Maybe won’t be needed in macOS Golden Gate. Expecting we’ll need little tweaks for each OS now.

Looks like good refinements to Liquid Glass on Mac. Also, feels almost bold to name this release Golden Gate. Maybe this’ll be a big one.

Coffee this morning at Voltaire in San Jose. For a moment, I considered walking back to the hotel with my laptop cracked open to let AI finish what it was working on… That would be too perfectly Silicon Valley. ☕️

Om Malik with a great blog post exploring Anthropic’s naming for Mythos and Project Glasswing:

Project Glasswing is the same move. The name suggests something fragile and transparent, a butterfly with see-through wings. The project is opaque. Only the trusted can see it. The name performs openness so the structure does not have to.

Irgendwas geht los in Koblenz 🤔

A few weeks ago, I was at my brother’s place, watching NBA, and amongst other things, I was teasing him about the fact that he’s putting up weight. Which is just a fact. But he’s also in his 40s, so that’s understandable. He pointed out that I’m also gaining weight (but I’m ...

Even though I tell myself I’m getting old and jaded, with more complaints about Apple than hopes, it’s an hour before the keynote and I’m excited. Most of us are developers because we believe in what might be possible through technology.

I’m heading to Amsterdam for CSS Day. It’s one of those events I try my best to get to every single year. I have no doubt that this year will be brilliant as usual.

There’s another event the day before CSS Day: The Web You Want:

What would the web be like if it was up to you?

There’ll be workshops and talks, all absolutely free.

I’ll be giving a talk. It’s supposed to be about the web I want, but I’m going to do my usual shtick of looking back at the history of the web to see what kind of things we wanted in the past. It’s called The Web You Wanted.

Register your attendance and I’ll see you there. Or maybe I’ll see you at CSS Day. Or at the session in Mulligan’s on Wednesday night.

Said to Claude just now -- btw, it's very good we're using the outliner back and forth. we're going to build on that.

I can't convert scripting.com to https. If I moved the site to an https server, all the archives would break, and that's where the value of the site is, in the archives, where I've kept a history of the various things I've worked on. I'm still working on new stuff, but if this is all that was left to do, I'd move to the tropics and make pottery, I would not spend my last years on such an enormous stupid bullshit project. It's just not possible. But if you want to read the new stuff on my blog in https, you can. I have a mirror on a WordPress site. We even have the blogroll ported.

For the beta of Micro.blog for Mac, I’ve decided to follow the lead of Brent Simmons, Rogue Amoeba, and others to hide Tahoe menu icons. It’s just too much clutter. There’s a secret preference “ShowMenuIcons” to get them back. I’ll document this somewhere before we ship.

While it’s certainly not good to be down 0-2 and lose home court advantage completely, nothing in this series yet suggests the Spurs can’t win games. Up 14 in game 1. And game 2 was theirs until the final seconds. 🏀

Daniel Jalkut:

Forever the optimist, I think that the next several years will be an era in which opinionated, competent developers are able to run circles around projects that are overly-invested in AI. Dip into AI, maybe even let it be your first mate, but never let it be the captain.

The familiar sounds of the espresso machine never cease to calm me – the joy of the familiar, but also the potential of the variable: of sounds at new tones, of different cadences. Watching as the barista makes sure to stop pulling the espresso shot at 33 seconds — precision at every step. Classical music, quiet conversation, and the awakening of the day permeate the cafe, illuminated by the light passing through the tall windows, and accompanied by the smell of freshly brewed coffee. I hear one of the baristas make their colleague laugh, bringing a smile to my face.

Today I’m releasing a beta of Micro.blog 4.0 for Mac. It’s a big update and I’d like to get some feedback before finalizing it. You can download the beta here. The first thing you’ll notice is that we’ve updated the design with a bunch of little improvements. The sidebar and...