Axios co-founder Mike Allen:
Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to
President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee, sources with
knowledge of the donation tell Axios. [...]
Cook, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a
great American traditi...
Fascinating piece by Ben Cohen for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link):
And there are two things I learned about the EUV tool I saw that I
can’t get out of my head:
ASML teamed up with a German optical company to develop mirrors
so flat that if they were scaled up to ...
Speaking of Simon Willison, I greatly enjoyed this post from last week, with some of the self-imposed principles he follows writing his excellent eponymous blog. Amongst them:
I always include the names of the people who created the
content I am linking to, if I can fig...
Simon Willison:
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over
the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about
the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at
identifying key themes and pivotal moments. [...]
I think telling peo...
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Hartley Charlton, MacRumors:
Apple TV+ is set to be available to stream for free from Saturday,
January 4 to Sunday, January 5, providing its full catalog with no
subscription fee. Following a series of teasers, Apple today
confirmed the free weekend on social media, bui...
Speaking of sponsorships, the Q1 schedule is filling up, but I’ve still got this week and next open. If you’ve got a product or service you think would be of interest to DF’s audience of people obsessed with high quality and good design, get in touch.
James Fallows, in a 2023 piece for The Atlantic, written when Carter entered hospice care:
Jimmy Carter survived to see many of his ambitions realized,
including near eradication of the dreaded Guinea worm,
which, unglamorous as it sounds, represents an increase in human
well-being greater than most leaders have achieved. He survived
to see his character, vision, and sincerity recognized, and to
know that other ex-presidents will be judged by the standard he
has set.
An upcoming version of the Magic Mouse with voice control for AI
would “make sense,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said today, though
he claimed that he has heard no rumors about the feature so far.
Alongside the voice-input mouse, it’d make just as much sense to bring back some of that see-through 1998 iMac aesthetic by switching MacBooks to transparent aluminum.
Fun and interesting list overall (via Kottke), but #7 caught my attention:
Walking speed on the streets of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia has increased 15% since 1979. (“Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.”)...
My thanks to Junjie for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Due, their excellent reminder app for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. I first linked to Due back in 2010, writing this short post:
I’ve been trying this $3 app for a few days and digging it — a
convenient, low-fric...
While his presidency was remembered more for its failures than for its successes, his post-presidency was seen by many as a model for future chief executives. Rather than vanish from view or focus on moneymaking, he established the Carter Center to promote peace, fight disease and combat social inequality. He transformed himself into a freelance diplomat traveling the globe, sometimes irritating his successors but earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
From an un-bylined post from OpenAI’s board of directors on Friday:
The hundreds of billions of dollars
that major companies are now investing into AI development show
what it will really take for OpenAI to continue pursuing the
mission. We once again need to raise more ...
Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion.
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Via Jason Snell (back in October), who points first to this thread on Mastodon where a few of us posted about our preferences for the fonts we use for writing, and then describes this fun “tournament” from Typogram that lets you pick your favorite monospaced coding font from...
Thrice a week, I pay for my son’s tuition. Once, I forgot, and the tutor had to ask for it days later. I felt terrible for making him ask. After putting it in Due, awkward moments like that never happened again.
If keeping promises, meeting deadlines, and showing up on time matter to you as much as they do to me, Due might be the app for you.
PS: It’s been 14 years since I first made Due. But my journey would have ended abruptly if not for a three-sentence review on Daring Fireball. If you were one of those readers who took a chance on Due, thank you.
My thanks to Mochi Development for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Jiiiii, their exquisitely well-crafted app for tracking anime. (Jiiiii — with five i’s — is the onomatopoeia for staring at something, commonly used in Japanese media.) With over 75 shows that aired thi...
Another great Rickey Henderson remembrance, this one from Joe Posnanski:
I’d argue that no player in baseball history was ever more alive
than Rickey Henderson, which is why his shocking death just days
before his 66th Christmas hits so hard. Rickey played a cautious
spo...
Craig Calcaterra, writing at Cup of Coffee:
To say this is a massive loss is about as big an understatement as
is possible. Henderson was the biggest and brightest star of his
generation. There may not have been any player in history who was
better at more things than Ri...
Mike Allen, in the bizarre notes-hurriedly-jotted-on-a-napkin house prose style of Axios:
Kara Swisher, the popular podcaster and pioneering tech
journalist, is trying to round up a group of rich people to fund a
bid for the Washington Post, she told us.
One big problem...
Zack Rosenblatt, Dianna Russini, and Michael Silver have written a devastating profile of the most dysfunctional franchise in all of U.S. pro sports, the New York Jets, whose dysfunction has a clear and obvious root cause: meddling idiot owner Woody Johnson (heir to the John...
Joe Otterson, reporting for Variety:
“Silo” has been renewed for both Seasons 3 and 4 at Apple TV+,
with the fourth season set to be the show’s last.
The renewal news comes as the post-apocalyptic drama is currently
airing its second season. The sixth episode of Season ...
One last item on Acorn 8. Whether you are a longtime Acorn user (like me), or a would-be new user, you should set aside some time to actually read Acorn’s documentation. It’s a full user manual, and it not only describes, in detail, what every feature in the app does and how...
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors:
The newly released Acorn 8 adds a bunch of great
features to the mix. A few of them will be familiar to Apple
platform users: subject selection uses machine learning to let
you quickly isolate and grab the subject of a picture (there’s
a...
Dave Nanian, writing on the Shirt Pocket blog:
macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A
terrible, awful surprise. Apple broke the replicator. Towards
the end of replicating the Data volume, seemingly when it’s
about to copy either Preboot or Recovery, i...
Gus Mueller:
This is a major update of Acorn, and is currently on a
time-limited sale for $19.99. It’s still a one time
purchase to use as long as you’d like, and as usual, the full
release notes are available. I want to highlight some of my
favorite things below.
“Sele...
Blackmagic Design:
Blackmagic Design announced it will start taking pre-orders for
the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera — the world’s first
commercial camera system designed to capture Apple Immersive Video
for Apple Vision Pro — today with deliveries due to sta...
With over 75 shows that aired this past season alone, keeping up with and discovering new anime can be hard, especially across several streaming services. Jiiiii makes that simple by giving you a single schedule to stare at1 as you await your favorite’s show’s weekly release...
Paul Kafasis, on the Rogue Amoeba blog:
Even as our products steadily grew in popularity, our relationship
with Apple was almost non-existent. Plenty of individuals inside
the company were fans, but we received very little attention from
Apple as a corporate entity. We d...
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