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Tripp Mickle Profiles Jony Ive and LoveFrom, Confirms OpenAI Partnership for Device

nytimes.com/2024/09/21/technology/jony-ive-apple-lovefrom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=2D87E4C1-1429-49ED-9B2A-558595007065

Tripp Mickle, writing for The New York Times: Mr. Ive and Mr. Altman met for dinner several more times before agreeing to build a product, with LoveFrom leading the design. They have raised money privately, with Mr. Ive and Emerson Collective, Ms. Powell Jobs’s company, ...

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John Gruber

iOS 18 Messages Bug, Triggered When Sharing an Apple Watch Face, Causes Crash and Data Loss

9to5mac.com/2024/09/18/ios-18-messages-app-crash/

Zac Hall, with a public service message at 9to5Mac: For now, the bug is triggered when someone replies to a shared watch face in a thread on Messages in iOS 18. The threaded responses feature allows you to have an inline conversation about a specific message that may hav...

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This is a test

Please ignore.

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Enough twitter

BTW, to be clear, I have no interest in working on twitter-like systems.

It's been like a prison to writers, we're stuck with this huge divide, with crap on both sides.

These things exist, they have a jumble of APIs and ways to integrate.

And we've been playing by the rules laid down by Twitter (ev, biz and jack) for 18 freaking years. That's enough.

This will never get sorted out until people realize it needs sorting out.

Not expecting much more to happen there.

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John Gruber

WorkOS

workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024

My thanks to WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months.

Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.

For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.

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Instead of just fact-checking the candidates, and presenting "both sides," how about recording the number of times the candidate threatens specific races, genders, lifestyles, religions and of course individual people. Keep a page where you tally the groups he doesn't threaten with expulsion or worse. That would be very revealing, and in line with the true issue of this election. Time for you all to get in sync with the actual American history that's being made.

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It's around this time of year that I start thinking about my BOTY. I should give out a plaque or a statue or something. Someday! Anyway almost immediately I had my answer. The announcement will wait till December of course, sometimes early January.

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Social networks are criticized when they carry lies from race-haters and fascists, but the major news orgs do it all the time. It's ridiculous that there are two standards.

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To my programmer friends, how long would it have taken to answer this question using Google and StackExchange. There was a bug in this one line of code, a call to new Date () in JavaScript, that was behaving as if months were not 0-based, which they are known to be. The problem: I was specifying the day as 0 and month, correctly, but the day had to be 1 in order for it to work and without thinking I had specified it as 0.

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Health is nothing to screw with

Since I'm about to turn 70 (next May), and because my body is getting old in ways it never has before (of course) -- I've become a more active participant in the health care system. One thing I've learned is it can be hard to get the attention of the doctors. And once you s...

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John Gruber

Qualcomm Is Trying to Acquire Intel

wsj.com/business/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-a-takeover-in-recent-days-fa114f9d

Lauren Thomas, Laura Cooper, and Asa Fitch, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+): Chip giant Qualcomm made a takeover approach to rival Intel in recent days, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be one of the largest and most consequential...

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John Gruber

Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Years Later’, a $75 Million Feature Film, Was Shot Using iPhone 15 Pro Max

wired.com/story/28-years-later-danny-boyles-new-zombie-flick-was-shot-on-an-iphone-15/

Carlton Reid, writing for Wired:

The use of Apple smartphones as the principal camera system on 28 Years Later was subsequently confirmed to Wired by several people connected with the movie, detailing that the particular model used to shoot was the iPhone 15 Pro Max. [...]

Several arthouse films have been shot with iPhones, including Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) and the Steven Soderbergh drama Unsane (2018), but these movies were limited-release, low-budget offerings compared to 28 Years Later. The new film’s $75 million budget is only part of the franchise’s total, with 28 Years Later being the first of a new trilogy; all three coming zombie films are being scripted by screenwriter Alex Garland, who is reuniting with Boyle and Mantle after helming Civil War, released earlier this year.

Right there, in your pocket, all day every day.

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Has anyone attempted to make a higher level language on top of SQL? It's taken me a few iterations over years to finally (I hope) figure out how to design a table to take advantage of the features that evolved into making SQL efficient for the applications people really deploy. If this were machine language, it would be time to start thinking about the HLL that it inspires. Actually long past time imho.

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Austin Mann’s iPhone 16 Pro Camera Review: Kenya

austinmann.com/trek/iphone-16-pro-camera-review-kenya

Austin Mann: Over the past week we’ve traveled over a thousand kilometers across Kenya, capturing more than 10,000 photos and logging over 3TB of ProRes footage with the new iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max cameras. Along the way, we’ve gained valuable insights into t...

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John Gruber

Shohei Ohtani’s Game for the Ages

mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-reaches-50-homers-50-steals

Los Angeles Dodgers DH Shohei Ohtani entered last night’s game in Miami with 49 stolen bases and 48 home runs for the season. Only five other players in MLB history have ever hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a season. No player had ever achieved a 50-50 season. Ohtan...

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Elon Musk, Useful Idiot

futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-shared-putin-propaganda-meme

Speaking of “Leon” Musk, here’s Victor Tangermann, writing for The Byte: In March, the US government accused the founder of Moscow-based company Social Design Agency of orchestrating a “persistent foreign malign influence campaign” on behalf of the Kremlin. The propagand...

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Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk (SpaceX) for $15 Million

elonowesyou100dollars.com/

Cards Against Humanity:

We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump’s very stupid wall.

Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire — Elon Musk — snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.

Just look at it! He fucked it.

How did this happen? Elon Musk’s SpaceX was building some space thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump his shit all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking. After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half our land’s value. We said, “Go fuck yourself, Elon Musk. We’ll see you in court.”

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European Commission Opens ‘Specification Proceedings’, Ostensibly to Tell Apple Exactly What to Do

ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_4761

The European Commission yesterday: Today, the European Commission has started two specification proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA’). [...] Pursuant to Article 8(2) of the DMA, the Commission...

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This is a test. For the next sixty seconds this station will conduct a test of a new server app that combines the functionality of several apps I used to run as separate servers. The goal is to be able to integrate the functionality of all the components. It's time to invest...

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Note to self: When the phone doesn't ring, go to Settings - Sound & vibration - Do Not Disturb. It was on for some reason. I'm sure I didn't set this. I'm pretty sure I've been here before. Here's the ChatGPT log and screen shot.