18.07.2026
Claude make Fable 5 permanent
Claude make Fable 5 permanent
An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter:
Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits.
Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and wi...
nascheme/quixote
A certain vintage if Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago.
The oldest commit in that repo is from 21 years ago, and that was the initial import of Quixote 2.4 from Subversion into Git.
Tags: computer-history, python, web-frameworks
LLM cliché highlighter
Tool: LLM cliché highlighter
I got frustrated reading yet another article that was crammed with the clichés of LLM-generated writing - "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" type stuff - so I had Fable 5 vibe code up this app for highlighting ten common patterns that show up in that sort of writing.
Tags: tools, ai, generative-ai, llms
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors
Joanna Stern at New Things, last month:
Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of
the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern On
I Am Not A Robot by Sophie Mercer. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Finn
Tech. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Joana Stern — ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Google Runs Out of Appeals, Must Pay Record $4.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine
cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html
Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2:
Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1
billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive
practices.
In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the
record-breaking penalty o...
Billy Joel on his understanding of Jazz #piano #billyjoel #shorts
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Roblox Set to Introduce AI Game-Building Feature, Including on iOS
about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/07/build-without-limits-on-roblox
Roblox executives Nick Tornow and Vlad Loktev, on the Roblox blog:
Twenty years ago, Roblox launched with a simple idea: “You make
the game.” At the time, that was a radical proposition — most
games were made by studios and professionals, and the idea that
anyone could b...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Raises Prices for Apple Music and Apple One Subscriptions
9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple-music-and-apple-one-subscriptions/
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac:
Here are the new monthly prices for Apple Music and Apple One as of today:
Apple Music:
- Individual: $11.99 (up from $10.99)
- Family: $19.99 (up from $16.99)
- Student: $6.99 (up from $5.99)
Apple One:
- Individual: $19.95 (unchanged)
- Family: $27.95 (up from $25.95)
- Premier: $39.95 (up from $37.95)
Link: 9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple-music…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
OpenAI’s Product Shake-Up Put the Complexifiers in Charge
Wired, back on May 15:
OpenAI says it’s folding ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and
its developer-facing API into one core product team. The company
says that Codex is increasingly powering its consumer and
enterprise offerings, which are gaining the ability to perfo...
Latitude and Longitude
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
MG Siegler: ‘OpenAI Makes ChatGPT ChatGPT Again’
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass:
In that light, we can see the dilemma. But there were also
probably about a dozen better ways to do this roll-out — as
highlighted by how fast they’re fixing these things — and they
just missed the mark. While they undoubtedly knew there ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
OpenAI Starts Cleaning Up the Utter Mess It Made of ChatGPT
Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, the OpenAI engineering lead who’s taking the most public credit for this and thus probably deserves the most blame, on Twitter/X:
Evening! We’ve gotten lots of great feedback on the new ChatGPT
desktop app (which we didn’t get totally quite righ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Linus Torvalds: ‘AI Is a Tool, Just Like Other Tools We Use. And It’s Clearly a Useful One.’
lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/
Linus Torvalds:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.
It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.
There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but “is it useful” is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn’t actually used it.
Link: lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG…
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
My Mother Died On Screen But Survived Hollywood
"Making sense of a complicated family legacy."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
BBEdit 16
Speaking of BBEdit, version 16 dropped just before WWDC, and adds a slew of nifty improvements, headlined by vastly expanded support for Shortcuts. You can also search for text in images, use the W3C HTML syntax checker, and of all things, use vi keyboard emulation. There’s a lot more, of course — and as always the changes, improvements, and additions are copiously documented in the release notes.
New licenses are $60, upgrades from v15 cost $30, and upgrades from older versions are $40. In the Mac App Store it’s a $5/month or $50/year subscription.
See also: Jason Snell at Six Colors and Adam Engst at TidBITs.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
ArtfulType: Markdown Writing App for the 68K Macintosh
Sean Malseed — “Action Retro” on YouTube — created a Markdown editor for the original Macintosh. Source code on GitHub; intro video on YouTube. It’s written in C, not Pascal, and uses the modern Retro68 GCC-derived compiler.
I absolutely love that this exists. I don’t like ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Happy iCal Day
Joanna Stern explains why this emoji is correct today: 📅. (This one too: 📆)
I can't leave this table until I finish this puzzle
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Google and Epic Give Up Fighting — Third-Party Android App Stores Are Coming Next Week
Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge (gift link):
Here’s Google’s full statement on withdrawing its proposed
modifications to Judge Donato’s permanent injunction, via Google
spokesperson Dan Jackson:
We’ve agreed with Epic to withdraw our motion to modify the US
C...