I seem to be microblogging a little more than usual for the keynote, so decided to create a category on my blog for WWDC 2026 posts.

9to5Mac confirming what I thought I heard during the keynote: 8 GB devices are out for on-device AI. I think it’s the right call… Apple’s old models were just too small. But it’s weird that my pretty expensive iPhone 16 Pro Max can’t run local AI.

Expanding Apple Foundation Models to support image inputs and running in private cloud compute is a huge upgrade. The old models really weren’t capable enough for me, which is why I’m experimenting with bundling Gemma 4 directly in the Micro.blog app.

I feel bad saying this for all the Apple employees who dedicated so many hours preparing for WWDC, but I lose interest after an hour. Perfect keynote length would be about 70 minutes, not 100.

Apple didn’t try to take on too much with Siri AI. Only features they could actually ship. It looks good, but long term I still think using apps is the wrong strategy for assistants, because they can’t work well across platforms. It’ll work for now, and for privacy some people will prefer it.

I like in these Siri AI demos that they are doing things “live” (though recorded). It’s not fast, but it seems much more clearly actually working without edits.

A little surprised Apple is spending so much time in the keynote on safety for kids. It’s good, though! Thinking it helps set the stage for all the age-related laws from states, and we’ll return to safety and privacy during the Siri section later.

In my apps Inkwell and Micro.blog 4.0, I put a semi-opaque view under the toolbar to improve readability on macOS 26. Maybe won’t be needed in macOS Golden Gate. Expecting we’ll need little tweaks for each OS now.

Looks like good refinements to Liquid Glass on Mac. Also, feels almost bold to name this release Golden Gate. Maybe this’ll be a big one.

Coffee this morning at Voltaire in San Jose. For a moment, I considered walking back to the hotel with my laptop cracked open to let AI finish what it was working on… That would be too perfectly Silicon Valley. ☕️

Om Malik with a great blog post exploring Anthropic’s naming for Mythos and Project Glasswing:

Project Glasswing is the same move. The name suggests something fragile and transparent, a butterfly with see-through wings. The project is opaque. Only the trusted can see it. The name performs openness so the structure does not have to.

Even though I tell myself I’m getting old and jaded, with more complaints about Apple than hopes, it’s an hour before the keynote and I’m excited. Most of us are developers because we believe in what might be possible through technology.

For the beta of Micro.blog for Mac, I’ve decided to follow the lead of Brent Simmons, Rogue Amoeba, and others to hide Tahoe menu icons. It’s just too much clutter. There’s a secret preference “ShowMenuIcons” to get them back. I’ll document this somewhere before we ship.

While it’s certainly not good to be down 0-2 and lose home court advantage completely, nothing in this series yet suggests the Spurs can’t win games. Up 14 in game 1. And game 2 was theirs until the final seconds. 🏀

Daniel Jalkut:

Forever the optimist, I think that the next several years will be an era in which opinionated, competent developers are able to run circles around projects that are overly-invested in AI. Dip into AI, maybe even let it be your first mate, but never let it be the captain.

Today I’m releasing a beta of Micro.blog 4.0 for Mac. It’s a big update and I’d like to get some feedback before finalizing it. You can download the beta here. The first thing you’ll notice is that we’ve updated the design with a bunch of little improvements. The sidebar and...

Got all my geeky tech shirts packed for WWDC.

Is the day before WWDC a terrible time to release software that has a brand new on-device AI model, or the perfect time? No idea what Apple is going to release for developers tomorrow, but maybe it says something about my low expectations.

For the next Micro.blog for Mac, I also updated the movies pane a little, adding profile icons and the blog (or Letterboxd) domain name. Nice thing about a major new version is it’s an opportunity to go through the entire app looking for improvements to make.

Enjoyed this post from Cory Doctorow: Refining humanity:

Computers don’t just clarify what we know and how we organize our society: they also clarify what we are.

Notus reporting:

Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms…

Sort of says something about the potential bipartisan response to AI that Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Sam Altman all generally agree that the public should own a piece of AI. Separately, I think there should be public AI just like there are public libraries. But maybe you do that and a system of dividends.

In prep for WWDC, reading up on some things I should’ve learned about Apple Foundation Models a year ago. I think I had dismissed it quickly because the on-device models are so small by frontier AI standards.

Worked out some of my disappointment with that basketball loss by writing a bunch of new code. Always feels good to make progress on something.

Insane 4th quarter. Heartbreaking final 10 seconds. 🏀

Almost glad I’m not at the game because too many Knicks fans in San Antonio. Tough series so far. Spurs played better in game 1 but couldn’t get the win. Knicks playing better so far in game 2. One more quarter to go! 🏀

I didn’t expect Google of all companies would need to rent server space from SpaceX. I wonder how they’re preparing to accommodate the new Gemini-powered Siri, too.

I don’t listen to Pivot regularly anymore, because I need a break from politics, but sometimes Scott Galloway captures an idea perfectly:

The ultimate luxury item isn’t a home in Aspen or a Gulfstream. It’s being 28 and figuring out a way to live in New York, and knowing that every time you leave your house, your life could change. You could find someone to fund your business. You could find a cofounder. You could find just some incredible inspiring piece of art or culture. You could find someone you end up marrying.

This article about recursive self-improvement from Anthropic is fascinating. Lots of good info in it. But I’m not sure I can take this part seriously: We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable...

Great point by JA Westenberg about AI indecision. I’ve noticed this too:

But ask again, and keep asking, and it’ll offer a balance and then immediately surface the conditions under which the recommendation would flip. The model is doing what it was trained to do: give you an analysis and respect your autonomy, while avoiding the confident pronouncement that might mislead you. You came to the model wanting to be pushed, wanting someone or something to break the tie, and you got an oracle that hands the tie-breaking back to you with every prompt.

Turns out we have to make our own decisions.

Another screenshot from the upcoming Micro.blog 4.0 for Mac. I don’t edit blog categories often, so I was always fine with this as a web-only feature until now. Adding it to the Mac version is handy for filtering posts. Lots of small UI improvements in this release.