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M5 MacBook Pro Does Not Include a Charger in the Box in Europe
macrumors.com/2025/10/15/new-macbook-pro-lacks-charger-in-europe/
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a
charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K.,
Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway,
and others, according to Apple’s online store. In the U...
Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal: ‘A Cartoonist’s Review of AI Art’
Good and thoughtful graphic essay by Matthew Inman, expressing why he dislikes AI-generated art. It’s been widely linked to, largely approvingly. I fundamentally disagree with the premise. Near the start, Inman writes:
When I consume AI art, it also evokes a feeling. Goo...
Good morning from Ottawa
Here's the link to the slides promised below.
I've been going back and forth on slides. I always do this. In the end I hate slides because I digress while going through them and skip ahead, end up wishing I hadn't used them. So I decided to compromise. I'll do the first thr...
★ The Just Plain M5 Chip Launches in Three Updated Products: 14-Inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro (Both Sizes), and Some Sort of Headset Thingamajig Called Vision Pro
Thoughts and observations on the new M5 MacBook Pro, iPad Pros, and Vision Pro.
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Shy giant
TiVo Stops Selling DVRs
cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-stops-selling-dvrs-marking-the-end-of-an-era/
Luke Bouma, writing for Cord Cutters:
In a seismic shift for the television industry, TiVo Corporation
has quietly pulled the plug on its storied digital video recorder
line, effectively ending an era that redefined how consumers
interacted with broadcast content. As of ...
‘Halo Fund Announces Strategic Secondary Investment in 1Password’
Halo Fund:
Halo Fund, a new $1 billion growth fund founded by Ryan Smith and Ryan Sweeney, today announced a strategic secondary investment in 1Password, a leader in identity security and pioneer of Extended Access Management. Halo Fund is joined in this investment by legendary technology leaders, including Flume Ventures with Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy and former Zscaler Chief Strategy Officer Manoj Apte. This transaction underscores strong demand from innovators and investors to join 1Password’s journey.
Well I’m sure this will halt 1Password’s descent into enterprise/cross-platform shittiness.
The accomplishments of WordPress
One more slide from the presentation.
The accomplishments of WordPress.And with that I'm off to Ottawa, seeking fame and fortune. 😄
PS: One more slide for the road.
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Lolo Power
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‘How to Turn Liquid Glass Into a Solid Interface’
tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/
Adam Engst, at TidBITS:
Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here’s how to control its effects and make your interface more usable. Although the relevant Accessibility settings are quite similar across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, I separate them because they offer different levels of utility in each.
Comprehensive, illustrated overview of the various Accessibility settings (and, on MacOS 26 Tahoe, hidden command-line defaults settings) that let you adjust the transparency and contrast of Liquid Glass across the various Apple OS 26 interfaces. A useful guide for today — and, I bet, a useful look back at the first versions of Liquid Glass for the future.
‘Looking for the Red Flags in Apple’s Formula 1 TV Deal’
sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/looking-for-the-red-flags-in-apples-formula-1-tv-deal/
Jason Snell, at Six Colors:
The entire point of a streaming-only product is that once you’re
off traditional TV, you can go beyond the single stream and
provide interactive options. The whole point of streaming TV,
especially sports, should be that you can leave the flat...
Times I've been ambushed at conferences
Well, I think I'm done. I've got the outline for the slides complete. I can't possibly talk about all the stuff that's in the slides. Once I leave tomorrow I think perhaps I'll post a link for the slides and maybe offer a place to comment. Maybe.
I get very nervous about th...
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Jason Fried
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The next product
New products don’t need to be revolutionary, life-changing, or disruptive breakthroughs to succeed.
Entire categories can roll downhill, gathering complexity as they go. Each product one-upping the next until more becomes too much. The cycle feeds itself, never satiated. Competitors locked in a loop of mutual destruction through perpetual over-improvement.
When that happens, the door cracks open for something new.
The newcomer doesn’t have to meet the others where they are. It just has to feel right — like someone opened the curtains and let the sun back in. The type of product that lets people exhale and say, “finally!”
Not groundbreaking. Just grounded. Standing where everyone else forgot to.
Entire categories can roll downhill, gathering complexity as they go. Each product one-upping the next until more becomes too much. The cycle feeds itself, never satiated. Competitors locked in a loop of mutual destruction through perpetual over-improvement.
When that happens, the door cracks open for something new.
The newcomer doesn’t have to meet the others where they are. It just has to feel right — like someone opened the curtains and let the sun back in. The type of product that lets people exhale and say, “finally!”
Not groundbreaking. Just grounded. Standing where everyone else forgot to.
-Jason
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Trillium Flight, II
Apple Renames ‘Apple TV+’ to ‘Apple TV’
At the bottom of Apple’s press release announcing that F1 The Movie will be available for streaming on December 12:
Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity.
Ahead of its global streaming debut on Apple TV, the film
continues to be available for purc...
The web crashes
More slides done since yesterday, having a great time.
We all went through the same thing.
Twitter comes online, we try to work with it. Unless your ideas fit in 140 chars, don't use links, or style, and you never make mistakes that need correction, it just doesn't work.
Th...
The World’s Largest, Most Disruptive Botnet Is Exploiting Compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) Devices
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/ddos-botnet-aisuru-blankets-us-isps-in-record-ddos/
Brian Krebs:
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a
majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things
(IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast
and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy
con...
Apple Announces the End-of-Life for Clips
Apple Support:
The Clips app is no longer being updated, and will no longer be
available for download for new users as of October 10, 2025. You
can continue to use Clips on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 or earlier.
Clips is such an interesting story. It really was a great app. ...