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Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Mythos, Fable. I’m not a fan of Anthropic’s business but I’m a fan of their names. So nice.

The fifth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 5, I chat with Mike, the author of Shellsharks. We talk about, among other things, balancing personal and professional identities on personal websites, curating interesting content on the web, and creating bridges between disciplines with curation. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Instead of thinking about on-device models and cloud models, a better framing for Apple vs. everyone else is on-device context and cloud context. Apple is focused on apps, privacy, and security, at the expense of speed and universal access anywhere. There can’t really be a w...

A comment to a friend who roots for the Spurs. Ok you guys won one. I think last night they wanted it more than the Knicks. The Spurs knew they were going to be discombobulated, but the Knicks probably didn't expect the atomosphere to be so unusual? I was 100 miles away and could feel how much everything had changed. Whatever happens, in KnicksLand 2026 will mark a major change in the story, forever.

Maybe the cure for Meta glasses is that they be required by law to emit a signal that can be picked up by an app on a phone and can start ringing loudly when you're in range of one of these monsters, and the rate picks up when they look at you. You can point your phone at them and broadcast their image to a special website where their identities are collected and shared along with their location?

Congrats to the Iconfactory on 30 years! 🎉

I’m impressed with what Apple has come up with their most advanced on-device model. From the Machine Learning blog:

Built on cutting-edge Apple research, this 20-billion-parameter model uses a sparse architecture, activating just 1 to 4 billion parameters at a time depending on the request.

My Claude today pulled a Hal. It was so egregious. It made a change to the software based on a question I asked. It invented a whole set of instructions from me that I never gave it. And then it broke Rule #1 -- don't tell Dave what to do -- he is the driver. It is so import...

You know how job interviews for programmers include realtime problem-solving. Sometimes Claude is so dumb it could never pass one of those tests. Up till this point I would have been surprised to hear that.

Going to Amsterdam. brb

Long day but really good day. Felt like it had a little bit of everything. Still coming down after that Spurs game, really good. Tomorrow need to unpack a little more of what I glossed over during the WWDC announcements.

Go Spurs Go! Big game in NY. Found a sports bar to watch a little while in San Jose. Mostly Knicks fans here but a few Spurs fans here. 🏀

OpenAI announces draft S-1 in an oddly direct, brief blog post:

We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it. We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company.

Catching up from yesterday’s post from John Gruber about SwiftUI:

There’s something really wrong with SwiftUI. Amongst the apps I use, the best example is Apple Journal. Basic stuff that’s worked reliably for decades — some things that heretofore had worked forever — are dangerously broken.

Apple should’ve unified AppKit and UIKit years ago. SwiftUI could be purely a wrapper for the core framework, plus support for watchOS. Maybe too late to correct this now.

Sometimes you write a post and when you're editing it you realize you no longer support what you wrote. This is one of those times.

Monday session

Pulled several short straws in the office World Cup sweep stake: Turkey, Panama and Austria.

Seeing this screenshot on Mastodon from Finn Voorhees, sounds like Apple doesn’t want big companies to use private cloud compute. Which means it probably won’t even work with Mac apps like mine that are distributed outside the App Store. Apple’s going to lock this down.

I seem to be microblogging a little more than usual for the keynote, so decided to create a category on my blog for WWDC 2026 posts.

9to5Mac confirming what I thought I heard during the keynote: 8 GB devices are out for on-device AI. I think it’s the right call… Apple’s old models were just too small. But it’s weird that my pretty expensive iPhone 16 Pro Max can’t run local AI.