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My sister Charleen sent me this meme with the note “Someone needs to draw you in there with your arm up 🤣🤣🤣” It’s a nice ode to the Dries essay on Maker/Taker problems. Well, thanks to the magic of AI, I asked the Nano Banana AI Studio to “make it so on the bottom one … Continue reading Maker Taker →

Marco Arment on Mastodon:

As we head into iPhone-event week, let’s celebrate the hard work by all of the people who made these products happen.

And let’s not forget the shameless Trump-suckass CEO at the top, who constantly gives the middle finger to everyone in his own company…

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Another application for websockets. You could actually put a web server on your desktop without exposing your home network to the world. I can't wait till I have time to play around with this.

New demo app. FeedLand communicates back to the client app via websockets. This is absolutely the easiest way to get flow from feeds to apps running on servers or in a browser, or other desktop app. Websockets is a mature standard, and incredibly useful. I'm now working on a toolkit for it, along with all the other projects going on in parallel, so other developers can hook up to FeedLand to get the flow of new items. The demo shows you the JSON version of every news item as it appears on the wire. Impossible to read at times, but there's no limit to the kinds of apps you can build for this. My friend Chuck Shotton has a market-predicting LLM app that gets its news this way. Nothing to install on a server. FeedLand does all the work. I expect to have a toolkit out sometime in the next month.

To the people who are paying $200 for an Uber to leave the U.S. Open, I have read the New York Post story about you, and I see you, and I hear you, and I am here to offer a solution: Take the train.

The U.S. Open grounds are directly attached to the Mets–Willets Point station of the 7 train and the LIRR. You can recognize the LIRR by its janky little station, and the 7 train by its purple colors and the number 7. MTA wayfinding can be a little confusing for people unfamiliar with the system, but I have two points of good news for you: It is still easier to navigate than swaths of nondescript concrete, and if taxi lines are long enough to last 40 minutes, you will have enough people leaving at the same time to ease the process.

Ryan Barrett blogging about how our symptom-based healthcare isn’t good enough:

…for lots of diseases, even critical ones like cancer, where catching them early can make all the difference, most of the time we’re still waiting until someone shows up in clinic, coughing up blood and complaining that their side hurts…

We’re taking an even worse step back right now in the United States, but it’s temporary, fixable in 2026 and 2028. I still feel good that our grandchildren will have much better care and healthier lives.

Micro.blog 3.7 for Mac is out, and I recorded a quick 2-minute YouTube video to show a few things in the interface around books and notes.

BALTIMORE — With two outs in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday night, the Dodgers leading the Orioles 3-0, all I was thinking about was Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The L.A. ace looked poised to wrap a no-hitter at Camden Yards, and the entire crowd was on its feet, either outright...

Two videos every US resident should watch to prepare for what might be coming. 1. The Lives of Others. A drama set in the eastern part of post-war Germany before the wall came down. People lived their lives, but their relationship with the government and the military would s...

I recently spoke to my friend’s daughter, who has had a lifelong ambition to be an illustrator. Despite being extremely

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Of course I only notice the UI glitches while I’m recording a screencast demo. Will have to tweak a couple things for the next bug fix update.

With the acquisition by Atlassian, there’s a lot of talk about whether this is bad for Dia and Arc. But one thing I’m sure about: this is good for Atlassian. The Browser Company has a great attention to detail and thoughtful design that could benefit Atlassian’s culture.

FLUSHING — “Seventy-five years of breaking barriers” is the official slogan of this year’s U.S/ Open, but for anyone who’s spent time out at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it can often feel like the tournament is more adept at putting barriers up than taki...

The new Google Preferred Sources tool helps you see more of what you want in your search results.

Security is absolutely crucial at this point. No business (regardless of size) can ignore security and assume nothing will happen.

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Sam Altman recently made headlines when he said, “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI. Ever.” But

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In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics.

As kids across America head back to school, Gilbert Cruz, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, is thinking about the books he read when he was in school. On today’s Sunday Special, Gilbert talks with the Book Review editor Sadie Stein and the author Louis Sachar (“W...

Working on Mac code continues to be a kind of escape from closed mobile platforms. Still fun after all these years. I wrapped up a Micro.blog update today, will release it tomorrow.