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The difference between a junior developer and a senior developer isn’t actually about writing better code. It’s that for people with more experience, their gut feeling about how best to solve something is just correct more often. That’s it.

It wasn’t the Amtrak route I had planned for today, but guess this airport train will have to do. Hi Phoenix. 👋

From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working

Google tried to reinvent email. Everyone said no.

Unpacking the political fallout from President Donald Trump’s pause on tariffs.

Tariffs are on. Tariffs are paused. Tariffs are making stock markets go wild. Where do we go from here?

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake talks with The Post’s global economics correspondent, David Lynch, and White House reporter Cat Zakrzewski about Trump’s mixed messaging on tariffs, whether the administration’s tariff pause is strategic, and where the policy whiplash leaves Wall Street and American small-business owners. 

Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy, with help from Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Reena Flores, Lucy Perkins with help from Annah Aschbrenner and mixed by Sean Carter. 

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So I ran a marathon at the weekend. I was going to say “my first marathon” - which it was, my first I mean - but that makes it sound like there are going to be many, which uh I don’t intend so much. Let’s see. I expected a marathon to be hard. It was harder than I expected i...

We’re tracking President Trump’s squeeze on higher education, and the argument in the Ivy League: whether or not to make a fight of it. First, Columbia surrendered under a Trump threat to cut $400 million ...

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The new park around the old Mueller tower. Walked by here today and hadn’t seen it since the area was under construction.

OpenAI version numbers continue to be hilarious. Looks like the actual release order will be: 3.5, 4.0, o1, o3, 4.5, 4.1. The joke’s on us though because the naming does make a certain amount of sense given the parallel development.

Found leaked technical diagrams of a new roller coaster at Disneyland. No, wait… That’s just the last 5 days of Apple stock. 🤪

Listeners call in to speak on the weirder sports, games, or competitions that they follow, plus we share some of our favorites.

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Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (D NY), talks about her work in Washington and more.

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As we continue our series about alternative pathways into well-paying careers, Amy Volz, head of workforce innovation at Trane Technologies, a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning and refrigeration systems company with a focus on climate and sustainability, and Ebony T...

For all the negative anecdotes in The Information story, it actually ends on a positive note about Craig Federighi:

Federighi, for one, often knows more technical details about software projects than the junior engineers working on them. Rockwell, who joined Apple in 2015, is seen within the company as a leader with vision, who can bring fresh thinking to projects while skillfully navigating the corporate culture.

AI is incredibly technical. Apple needs someone who actually understands it in charge. I like Craig’s chances for turning Siri around.

Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark (D), talks about his campaign to be the Democratic nominee for governor in the June primary and the issues that matter to voters in Newark and across the state.

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Wrapping up the next Micro.blog for Mac bug fix update today. Any bugs we’ve missed recently? Let me know and maybe they can get squeezed in. 🐛

I haven’t read the full report in The Information yet, but just the MacRumors summary is pretty detailed. One comment on this bit:

The indecision and repeated changes in direction reportedly frustrated engineers and prompted some members of staff to leave Apple.

I assume that some of the sources for the story were people who left Apple, so that might’ve slanted the reporting, but this underscores the serious lack of vision we’ve assumed for a year. Apple was fumbling around like AI was a minor optional feature, not the potentially disruptive new foundation for assistants it likely will be.

Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps her April conversation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, including how President Donald Trump's tariffs might play out in the local economy, how Democrats can reduce red tape to build more affordable housing in New Jersey and much more. 

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Two issues in Bluesky outbound RSS feeds.

If I were a sassy Democratic Party leader I'd cop to being woke. "Why yes I am woke. Aren't you?" The Repubs have never explained why it's bad to be awake. Dems have to learn how to engage to win. Another one -- "read, fire, aim" is how Trump leads, just look at the tariffs, and it's been a huge disaster for hard-working American wage-earners of all generations. The "all generations" part opens an interesting conversation, how it isn't just old people or young people, it's also people who are working today whose earnings are being stolen, and those of us who have been working for 50 years who were paying into a fund so we could benefit when we retire. That money is coming out of your paycheck with no intention of ever paying it back. That's the Republican-run America. Not so great.