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Daring Fireball
14 Apr 21:18 • John Gruber

Apple Has Hidden the Pre-Creator-Studio Versions of Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in the Mac App Store

9to5mac.com/2026/04/13/apple-removes-old-pages-keynote-numbers-apps-for-macos/

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: On the iPhone and iPad, Apple made the new Creator Studio features available as updates to the existing App Store releases. On the Mac though, the rollout was a lot more confusing. Apple kept the old iWork apps for Mac available on the App Sto...

kottke.org
14 Apr 20:39 • Jason Kottke

Authoritarian Megalomaniacs Love Gaudy Buildings

You know who else wanted to construct gaudy buildings in his own image? Here’s Timothy Ryback on Adolf Hitler’s obsession “with adding an expensive new wing to the Reich chancellery”. The new annex, connected to the chancellery by a marble corridor hung with crystal chand...

Daniel Pietzsch
14 Apr 20:38

📄 Automating Sending Webmention Requests from a Static Site

How I automatically send Webmention requests from a GitLab build pipeline
for my static sites.

Daring Fireball
14 Apr 20:36 • John Gruber

Google Will Finally Begin Punishing Sites for Back-Button Hijacking in June

developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking

Google, on their Search Central Blog: Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking”, which will become an explicit violation of the “malicious practices” of spam policies, leading to potential spam actions. Wh...

Simon Willison's Weblog
14 Apr 20:15

Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now

Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now The UK's AI Safety Institute recently published Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities, their own independent analysis of Claude Mythos which backs up Anthropic's claims that it is exceptionally effective at id...

kottke.org
14 Apr 19:57 • Jason Kottke

This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable...

This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable but simple browser for iOS.

FeedCity: dan's Shares
14 Apr 19:57 • dan

That is a good looking set of photos!

B I J A N
14 Apr 18:27 • bijansabet

Return visit to Prague

What a joy to be in Prague last month. I loved seeing friends, sights and the sounds of my second home. And the food! Thank you for the warm hugs and kind welcome back. I needed that more than I can put in words.

Daring Fireball
14 Apr 19:54 • John Gruber

Amazon to Acquire Globalstar, Announces Agreement With Apple to Continue Service for iPhone and Apple Watch

aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-globalstar-apple

Amazon: Today Amazon.com, Inc. and Globalstar, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire Globalstar, enabling Amazon Leo to add direct-to-device (D2D) services to its low Earth orbit satellite network and ext...

Daring Fireball
14 Apr 19:54 • John Gruber

John Calhoun on Steve Lemay

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297653

Speaking of John Calhoun, he chimed in on a Hacker News thread last month regarding his experience working with Steve Lemay at Apple: I think Steve Lemay is a good guy. I kind of fought with him when I was an engineer, he was a young, new designer (at Apple). But I alway...

Rick Beato
14 Apr 19:44

The Bruce Hornsby Interview

In this interview, Bruce Hornsby sits down to discuss his decades-long success in the music industry starting with his hit "The Way It Is" in 1986. Bruce demonstrates his unique style combining folk, jazz and pop into something completely his own. My Beato Club supporters:...

Marques Brownlee
14 Apr 19:30

The Unreleased Rollable Smartphone!

This phone never came out. But they got really close to dropping a rollable phone

JerryRigEverything teardown: https://youtu.be/vDMpANNGND4?si=ks0m5gQBYJkiiEVZ

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kottke.org
14 Apr 19:09 • Jason Kottke

“ The internet known within China is a very...

“The internet known within China is a very different internet to the one known by the world at large. It is censored, regulated and structured quite differently. It is controlled and managed, rather than organic and sprawling.”

kottke.org
14 Apr 18:15 • Jason Kottke

Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings

For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Phish, Fugazi, and so many more. With the help...

Dan’s Polaroids
14 Apr 18:10

14.04.2026

The book Alea Aquarius in my hand. — Alea Aquarius is what we’re reading to Zoe. It’s part 3. The thickest, yet.

Dan’s Polaroids
14 Apr 18:10

13.04.2026

Me from nose to knees in a bathroom mirror with some towels and a cupboard. — Still sick. Still stuck at home. Mostly in bed.

kottke.org
14 Apr 17:39 • Jason Kottke

On the network effect of the weekend : “The...

On the network effect of the weekend: “The essential characteristic of the weekend is not just the having of a day off, but rather that other people have the day off.”

kottke.org
14 Apr 16:36 • Jason Kottke

A Collection of Transit Tickets

A brand designer’s “compendium of transit tickets” from around the world. Many of these are from the 90s and 00s. Design inspiration for daaaaays. (via meanwhile) Tags: design

Daring Fireball
14 Apr 16:36 • John Gruber

Richard Moss’s 2010 Interview With John Calhoun on the Origins of Glider

macscene.net/d/4678-interview-john-calhoun-on-the-origins-of-glider-part-1

Richard Moss, back in 2010: John Calhoun’s Glider games hold a special place in the history of Mac gaming, acting almost as an icon of the platform through much of the 1990s. They spawned a hugely dedicated fan base, which produced a ridiculous amount of original content...

kottke.org
14 Apr 15:57 • Jason Kottke

The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today,...

The Death of the Basic American Car. “Today, there are so many wealthy people who can afford luxury cars that it simply isn’t that profitable for companies to produce cars for the bottom 40 percent of Americans by income.”

kottke.org
14 Apr 15:09 • Jason Kottke

An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own...

An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own retail store in San Francisco. The bot has hired a pair of human employees and “has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras”.