Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
“A foundry for bastard web fonts.” The default is a version of Times New Roman but every 7th glyph is replaced with one from Arial, but you can dial up whatever bastardization you want.
This is why I’m not at all worried about AI destroying the world. Look at the horrible things human beings have made.
Link: bastardica.mitpit.com/
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Sancho Panza:
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks.
Kagi, the search engine I’ve been using for a few years now, gave me the exact sort of results to Panza’s query that he was looking for.
OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because “it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions [and] was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do”.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
If anyone could devise a funny way to measure battery life, it’s her.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple executives seemingly did very few interviews after the iPhone event three weeks ago. The best, perhaps by far, is this 11-minute video with Craig Federighi by “Daniel Decodes”, a Chinese language creator. His YouTube account only has 1,100 followers (and only had had 500 at the time of the video) and only one other video — presumably he’s got a big following in China. Very insightful questions about the Duo user interface — and Federighi gives very thoughtful answers. The question (and answer) about “back” swiping really gets to the heart of what makes iOS so much more cohesively designed than Android, spatially.
Nothing decided to join the $400+ ANC headphone ranks, and made just one bizarre mistake...
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Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.”
Bill and Juliet just want to be thirty, flirty, and thriving after revisiting the 2004 classic ‘13 Going on 30’ starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, and Judy Greer.
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
sixcolors.com/post/2026/09/stolen-device-protection-passwords-glenn/
Glenn Fleishman:
Leaving Stolen Device Protection enabled does mean that you may have to wait an hour in some scenarios to manage aspects of your Apple Account, make changes to Face ID or Touch ID, change your device passcode, and a few other actions. But this minor inconvenience might assuage the kinds of concerns that Scott wrote in about, and make you more comfortable that your big basket of secret eggs won’t scramble.
I put off enabling Stolen Device Protection for a while after it came out, because I’m stubborn and trust myself to a degree that’s probably irrational. But when it became the default I enabled it, and haven’t once regretted it.
Release: llm-anthropic 0.30
In addition to Claude Sonnet 5.5, this release adds the ability to run llm anthropic refresh to refresh the list of Anthropic models directly from their API - which means I don't need to push a new release just to add support for a newly released model.
I also added an llm anthropic count command which can use their free token counting API to return a count of tokens that will be used by any prompt, before you send that prompt.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Colossal
• Colossal
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Earlier this month, a monumental, metallic spiral appeared on Manhattan's High Line to coincide with New York Fashion Week.
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