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Simon Willison: Grok 4 Heavy is the “think much harder” version of Grok 4 that’s currently only available on their $300/month plan. Jeremy Howard relays a report from a Grok 4 Heavy user who wishes to remain anonymous: it turns out that Heavy, unlike regular Grok 4, has ...

I mostly like the super-rounded windows in macOS Tahoe, but it does create new problems for UI elements that are near the edge. It seems clearly designed for windows with toolbars. The worst conflict is for sheets, which don’t even have a title bar.

Sean Heber of the Iconfactory:

ChatGPT and other AI services are basically killing Iconfactory and I’m not exaggerating or being hyperbolical.

Sad to read this. More people also need to discover Tapestry. Micro.blog has been sponsoring it for a couple months, and I plan to continue to, but I expect ads are a small fraction of needed revenue.

Sports can be amazing and heartbreaking. I didn’t watch the Wimbledon final, but listened to Amanda Anisimova’s remarks at the end. Happy for her to have made it so far. And later today, we’ve got Mavs vs. Spurs at the Summer League. We’ve seen Cooper Flagg, now hopefully Dylan Harper can play. 🎾🏀

I want Mastodon to take off as a blogging platform. That means hooking it up to existing blog platforms. I want our world to connect to theirs. I'm lucky to have bet on WordPress, so my product gets the connection to Mastodon for free. But the web is what matters, not my product or yours. Even if your product is huge, it's only part of the web. This is how we build, how we get back on track. Somehow we need to get a simple bridge that lets all blog content flow to Mastodon. That's the goal. I just wrote a couple of posts where this became clear to me. Who has the code and expertise to create a simple interface from the outside world to Mastodon. The interface doesn't have to be RSS. But it has to be maximally simple, and it has to cover the basic features of blogs that Mastodon supports.

This week, a web framework called Hono announced on X that it had “finally” reached 25,000 GitHub stars. While 25,000

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Once again, the software development landscape is experiencing another big shift. After years of drag-and-drop, no-code platforms democratizing app creation,

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SwiftUI has been out for years, yet I’m still here creating new XIBs and Objective-C code like it’s 2005. AppKit is good at its job. SwiftUI is great for starting new apps. AppKit is best for finishing them.

For decades, elegant code has been the hallmark of great software development — code that is streamlined, efficient, well-documented, reusable

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Alexander Kucera blogs about supporting multiple export formats in Links:

Digital preservation isn’t just about saving content. It’s about maintaining access and control.

The Linux desktop offers so many options, ranging from the overly simple to the very complex. You could go with

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The photo search in Micro.blog for Mac has gotten really good. I don’t think there’s anything like this in other blogging platforms. Screenshot of “coffee” search for my blog. (Similar interface on the web too. Works best with AI enabled so we can generate keywords for everything.)

AI chatbots don't think and they don't decide. They can give you a way to approach a problem, but it's only one way, and it depends on it actually understanding the problem, which is something it does a good simulation of. But it absolutely cannot think, come up with a strat...

After the enlightening question-and-answer session with Warp CEO Zach Lloyd, I was ready to try out Warp 2.0’s agentic large

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The pattern of coffee and people. Overhead light looks like a halo.

This global language translation tool works whether you’re connected to the network or not.

Scientists warn that “the cuts would prevent the US from training and preparing the next generation of the scientific and technical workforce.”

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find those worth your money.