Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-golden-gate-icon-comparison
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Early adoption of new technology is generally considered a young-person thing, but maybe Snap Specs will turn that notion on its head. Direct sales in retirement homes?
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...]
Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win.
— Sean Lynch, comment on Hacker News
Tags: model-context-protocol, llms, ai, generative-ai, skills
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-t1-phone-nearly-identical-htc-device-analysis-rcna349293
NBC News:
The Trump Mobile T1 phone, originally marketed as “Made in the USA,” is nearly identical to the two-year-old HTC U24 Pro, a phone made by the Taiwanese company HTC using Chinese parts, according to a technical analysis the repair-guide and parts company iFixit conducted in partnership with NBC News.
That report is paywalled, but NBC News’s five-minute video is on YouTube, and iFixit has a full teardown report of their own. The only thing that’s surprising is that the Trump T1 doesn’t cost much more than the HTC-branded one ($500 vs. $470).
Link: nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/trump-mobile-t1-phone-nearly…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9?st=mKdQwC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1jk6onr/bloody_large_glasses_by_michael_caine/
“They’re about power, aren’t they, and the bloody powerful blokes who wear them.”
Maybe I’m all wet and these things are stylish, no matter what they do to your ears.
Link: reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1jk6onr/bloody_large_glasses_by…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Re: my post on Verizon flat-out admitting their business practices have resembled a scheme from Dr. Evil, Domino’s did something similar regarding their pizza a while back. This 2021 story for Inc. by Jeff Haden describes the turnaround.
Link: inc.com/jeff-haden/10-years-ago-cardboard-pizza-almost…
Radiolab
• Storytelling, Hormones, Sex hormones, Menstrual cycle, Men’s health, Women’s health, Mental Health, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Brain, Health
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"Today, Jim Henson’s dark fairytale is seen as a classic of 80s high camp. But on release, it bombed."
Longreads
• Longreads
In this edition:
• Showing our age
• Special delivery
• Unfriendly wagers
• A shore thing
• Sale therapy
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
James Baldwin’s former home in the South of France is a site that many visit hoping to feel the essence of the great African-American writer. But should it be?
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
