07.03.2026
Let’s Tie All Planets Together
What if we tied all the planets together with one giant rope? Their different speeds, spins, and the Sun itself would quickly turn the Solar System into chaos. Let’s go!
#kurzgesagt
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Quoting Ally Piechowski
Questions for developers:
- “What’s the one area you’re afraid to touch?”
- “When’s the last time you deployed on a Friday?”
- “What broke in production in the last 90 days that wasn’t caught by tests?”
Questions for the CTO/EM:
- “What feature has been blocked for over a year?”
- “Do you have real-time error visibility right now?”
- “What was the last feature that took significantly longer than estimated?”
Questions for business stakeholders:
- “Are there features that got quietly turned off and never came back?”
- “Are there things you’ve stopped promising customers?”
— Ally Piechowski, How to Audit a Rails Codebase
Tags: technical-debt, software-engineering, rails
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorship Openings
Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back in 2007. They’ve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy. They generate good money. There’s only one sponsor per week and the sponsors are always r...
These Are the People in This Neighborhood
Can’t stop, won’t stop. On the heels of the refreshed Rolodex from earlier in the week, I’ve pushed another “Just Enough Social” feature to the site: members bios & profile pics. Here’s what that looks like:
Members can find a link to their profile by 1) clicking on y...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group on Coruna, a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit of Mysterious Origin
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit
Google Threat Intelligence Group, earlier this week:
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and
powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS
version 13.0 (released in September 2019) up to version 17.2.1
(released in December 2023)...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘The Window Chrome of Our Discontent’
Nick Heer, writing at Pixel Envy, uses Pages (from 2009 through today) to illustrate Apple’s march toward putting “greater focus on your content” by making window chrome, and toolbar icons, more and more invisible:
Perhaps Apple has some user studies that suggest otherwi...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: There's a Catch
The price is the most "ultra" thing about the S26 Ultra
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Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...
06.03.2026
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. Enrollment is now open; the class will deal with questions like “Which regimes are using this tournament to launder their reputations?”
SETI might be missing alien signals because...
SETI might be missing alien signals because “stellar ‘space weather’ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systems”. SETI usually looks for “extremely sharp frequency spikes”.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Verge Interviews Tim Sweeney After Victory in ‘Epic v. Google’
theverge.com/23996474/epic-tim-sweeney-interview-win-google-antitrust-lawsuit-district-court
The Verge:
Sean Hollister: What would you say the differences are between
the Apple and Google cases?
Tim Sweeney: I would say Apple was ice and Google was fire.
The thing with Apple is all of their antitrust trickery is
internal to the company. They use their store, t...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right to Criticize Google’s Play Store Until 2032
theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032
Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge:
But Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. It’s right there in a
binding term sheet for his settlement with Google.
On March 3rd, he not only signed away Epic’s rights to sue and
disparage the company over anything covered in the ...
Anthropic and the Pentagon
This piece by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders is the most thoughtful and grounded coverage I've seen of the recent and ongoing Pentagon/OpenAI/Anthropic contract situation.
AI models are increasingly commodified. The top-tier offerings have about the same performance, and there is little to differentiate one from the other. The latest models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, in particular, tend to leapfrog each other with minor hops forward in quality every few months. [...]
In this sort of market, branding matters a lot. Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, are positioning themselves as the moral and trustworthy AI provider. That has market value for both consumers and enterprise clients.
Tags: bruce-schneier, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, ai-ethics
“For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad”
Here’s a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Colonel, then estranged from the company he founded, strolled into the kitchen afte...
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Snail Sex Tape
In this episode, we consider a creature we often don’t think much about—the snail. And not just snails, but their sex lives. Which, as it turns out, is epic. There is persuasion and subterfuge, spaghetti penises and co-copulation. And this very surprising habit—erm kink—of m...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The MacBook Neo’s Price, Looking to the Past and Future
Ethan W. Anderson, on Twitter/X:
I’ve plotted the most expensive McDonald’s burger and the least expensive MacBook over time. This analysis projects that the most expensive burger will be more expensive than the cheapest laptop as soon as 2081.
Looking to the past, if you plug $599 in today’s money into an inflation calculator, that’s just ~$190 in 1984, the year the original Macintosh launched with a price of $2,495 (which works out to ~$7,800 today.)