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Daring Fireball
24 Oct 20:48 • John Gruber

MKBHD’s Duo Review

youtu.be/ESABTN4VtrA

Marques Brownlee thinks the lack of Face ID will be the biggest gripe. I agree. And I love his central framing for the review: that the Duo is extremely polished around the edges (figuratively, but also true literally) but rough in the middle. But he spends more time gripin...

Daring Fireball
24 Oct 19:24 • John Gruber

Tim Pan’s iPhone Duo Review

youtube.com/watch?v=8pCccpKjjos

I hadn’t heard of Tim Pan or Mediastorm until running across his 24-minute video review of the Duo. It’s a good and fair review, but what struck me are the rather astonishing production values. Amongst other things, they stress-tested the hinge with an industrial robot by op...

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
24 Oct 18:49

What If We Cool Down the Sun?

The sunlight and the heat coming from Sun are essential for nearly all of life on Earth. So, what would happen if we cool down our star by 30%? #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #sun #astrophysics Sources & further reading: h...

Daring Fireball
24 Oct 16:06 • John Gruber

Apple Built a Photo-Realistic Functional Original iPod for Apple Music’s 404 Page

music.apple.com/404

It seems like this amazing Easter egg only launched yesterday, to celebrate the original iPod’s 25th anniversary. Exquisitely well done. More like this, please.

Link: music.apple.com/404

Simon Willison's Weblog
24 Oct 15:48

battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map

Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle - four way rotational symmetry, up to four AI pl...

Daring Fireball
24 Oct 15:09 • John Gruber

Chan Karunamuni on the Duo’s Open/Close Translucent Transition

x.com/chan_k/status/2113622379050246243

Chan Karunamuni, human interface designer at Apple, on X: iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal plane, not the cont...

Rick Beato
24 Oct 09:40

I've Never Seen The Guitar Played Like This

In this interview Slovak guitarist David Kollar demonstrates his unique guitar style. He shows me how he creates other worldly sonic textures using a mixture of unconventional techniques and digital manipulation. Check out more of David's work: https://www.davidkollar.com/ ...

APOD Basic
24 Oct 04:21

Rosetta's Selfie

Explanation: This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th, 2014. At the time the comet-chasing spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth, but only 16 kilometers from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Looming beyond the spacecraf...

xkcd.com
24 Oct 01:12

Forms of Water

Simon Willison's Weblog
23 Oct 23:45

Quick Study

Tool: Quick Study

Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High:

Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush

See also my previous experiment getting Claude Fable to simulate a watercolor illustration with P5.js.

Quick Study uses Sobel edge detection, with no external libraries beyond Google Fonts.

Tags: tools

Mars For The Rest of Us
23 Oct 22:24 • Maciej Cegłowski

An Apology to Readers

I’m late late late

Simone Giertz
23 Oct 21:12

I had this idea on a trip

October 12, 2026

Citation Needed
23 Oct 20:27 • Molly White

On Meidas Defense: cryptocurrency, sanctions, and Trump quid pro quo

Last week I joined Joe Plenzler on the Meidas Defense podcast to talk about crypto. Meidas Defense is the MeidasTouch Network’s national security show, so we spent more time than I usually do on crypto as a geopolitical problem, in addition to a consumer protection one. The full

Simon Willison's Weblog
23 Oct 19:57

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (except for input ...

Rick Beato
23 Oct 19:24

Taylor Momsen on what is a perfect song #taylormomsen #thebeatles

Accidental Tech Podcast
23 Oct 19:21

714: Get the Bigger Pizza

Pre-show: John’s of Bleecker Marco and Casey at John’s 🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️ Follow-up: HomeView When was the HomeView hardware created? Is it expensive? (via Paul Heering) Amazon Echo Show 5: $99 Amazon Echo Show 8: $199 Amazon Echo Show 11: $249 ...

kottke.org
23 Oct 18:03 • Jason Kottke

The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...

The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.”

Daring Fireball
23 Oct 17:15 • John Gruber

The Verge’s Duo Review: ‘Apple’s Folding Phone Is a Messy, Expensive Good Time’

theverge.com/tech/1015028/iphone-duo-review

Nilay Patel and Allison Johnson (also: 26-minute video review on YouTube): This means almost every time you open the phone you instinctively rotate it, and while it will work no matter how it’s rotated, it’s better to rotate it counterclockwise so the cameras are on top ...

Work Chronicles
23 Oct 16:45 • Work Chronicles

(announcement) Work Chronicles 2027 Calendar is now HERE

Hello everyone!

kottke.org
23 Oct 16:36 • Jason Kottke

“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...

“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.”