Satellite Pollution
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ Apple Giveth, Apple Taketh Away
The Good News First
Just this week I wrote about a hidden defaults preference you can set to turn off most of the insipid menu item icons in most of Apple’s first-party apps in MacOS 26 Tahoe. I bemoaned the fact that Safari — generally an exemplar of what makes a great Mac...
Every iPhone Ever. SAME photo!
iPhone 1 through 17 generation takes the same photo
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Sam Bankman-Fried’s helicopter parents crash into federal court
SBF praises Trump from prison, his parents beg for a pardon on CNN, and his legal ethics professor mother files court documents claiming to be from him — prompting a judge to demand he swear under oath who wrote them.
24.03.2026
Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former...
Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former Epic Games employee Asher Zhu. You try to stay hydrated in the hot Tokyo summer by showering and drinking beverages from vending machines.
23.03.2026
I made a better chair for your bedroom
A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual...
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Antibiotic Apocalypse
Doctor and special correspondent Avir Mitra takes Executive Editor Soren Wheeler, plus a live studio audience, on a journey from the operating room to inside the body to the farm to the sewers and back again—searching for answers to an alarming threat to humanity’s existence...
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Exotic Feline Rescue Center (Classic)
Long before Joe Exotic got the country talking about big cats, there was Joe Taft – regular guy – who began raising and rescuing these types of felines in Indiana.
MORE: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/exotic-feline-rescue-center-2
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We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year
We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year
Bit of a hyperbolic framing but this looks like another case study of vibe-porting, this time spinning up a new custom Go implementation of the JSONata JSON expression language - similar in focus to jq, and heavily associated with the Node-RED platform.As with other vibe-porting projects the key enabling factor was JSONata's existing test suite, which helped build the first working Go version in 7 hours and $400 of token spend.
The Reco team then used a shadow deployment for a week to run the new and old versions in parallel to confirm the new implementation exactly matched the behavior of the old one.
Tags: go, json, ai, generative-ai, llms, agentic-engineering
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro With No Plans to Bring It Back
Chance Miller with a big scoop at 9to5Mac:
It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the
Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s
website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on
Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to...
My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
Callum McMahon reported the LiteLLM malware attack to PyPI. Here he shares the Claude transcripts he used to help him confirm the vulnerability and decide what to do about it. Claude even suggested the PyPI security ...
684: It’s Not What Young People Do
Follow-up:
Overcast & Transcriptions
Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
Apple Podcasts transcript options
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MP3 ID3 “SYLT” tag
What is Marco using for a job...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Apple Charging Situation
Speaking of power adapters, this information guide from Rands in Repose is both useful and enlightening.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
You Can Jump Right to the Updates Screen in the App Store App on iOS 26.4
I mentioned the other day that I was mildly irked by a change in iOS 26.4 that moved the list of available updates in the App Store app one additional screen further into its hierarchy. Good news (via Nate Barham on Mastodon): you can long-press on the App Store app on your Home Screen and jump right to the Updates screen from the contextual menu. Nice! (This feature has been around for a few years, apparently, but it’s extra useful in 26.4).
Alternatively, you can create a Shortcuts shortcut that jumps you to the Updates screen. Just one action: open the URL itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates. Save it as an “app” on your Home Screen or an action in Control Center. Me, I’m just going to use the tap-and-hold contextual menu item on the App Store app.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Disney Drops Vaporware $1B Investment in OpenAI After Sora Got Axed
variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/
Todd Spangler, reporting for Variety:
Disney has now ended its partnership with OpenAI, which included
plans for the media conglomerate to take a $1 billion stake in the
artificial-intelligence company led by CEO Sam Altman.
A Disney rep said in a statement to Variety: ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Google Brags About Android Web Browser Benchmark Scores on Unnamed Devices; Gullible Reporters Fall for It
blog.chromium.org/2026/03/android-sets-new-record-for-mobile-web.html
Chrome engineer Eric Seckler, on Google’s Chromium Blog, under the bold headline “Android Sets New Record for Mobile Web Performance”:
Today, we are proud to celebrate a major milestone: Android is now
the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.
Through deep vertical ...
There’s an upside-down “H” on the...
There’s an upside-down “H” on the facade of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Illinois. Here’s a deep dive into how it got there.