Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"The price and quality of the $1.50 Costco frank haven’t budged in 40 years. It’s the last—and best—deal in the country."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype-swift.struct/markdown
The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type Identifier for Markdown data:
The identifier for this type is
net.daringfireball.markdown.This type conforms to
[utf8PlainText].
My main link here is to the Swift documentation, but it’s available in good old Objective-C too.
I had previously recommended conforming to public.plain-text but stated that the text encoding should be UTF-8. I’ve updated my own recommendation to public.utf8-plain-text to enshrine the UTF-8 encoding. (Back in 2004 UTF-8 support was far from universal. Today it is.)
Link: developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers…
Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026 Mixtape (4 hours long). Also available on Soundcloud.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
769 photographers and astronomers submitted more than 4,000 images to this year's competition.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
mjtsai.com/blog/2025/12/19/backblaze-no-longer-backs-up-dropbox/
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Art history and ecology merge in Van Hillik's bold, vaguely unsettling murals.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Veks Van Hillik Suspends Fish, Insects, and Other Objects in Surreal Murals appeared first on Colossal.
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
A banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time. ATP memberships are just $8/month or $88/year, and the members-only episodes alone are worth the price.
They do a great job explaining what makes for a Mac-assed Mac app, but an even better job talking about why users and developers should care about them.
👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design Matters. (I guess those eyes should be ears but an ears-bugging-out emoji doesn’t exist.)
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Rory Feldman was accused of deceiving, defrauding, and stealing. But he says he’s been the target of a relentless smear campaign by a 'magic mafia.'"
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable (gift link). “With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.”
I love this short little video montage of actresses during Charlie Rose interviews. No dialogue, just quiet reactions. Musical accompaniment by Laurie Anderson (O Superman).
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
One of the great things about the World Cup and the US: In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team. “Soccer fans from all over the world, many now making their homes in America, have packed bars, restaurants, living rooms…”
