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Adam Engst: The transition from version 14.4 of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers to version 15.1 has been confusing, to say the least. In late January, Apple released version 14.5 of all three apps, with the App Store claiming “This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements” for all three. I wonder if even that is […]

BasicAppleGuy: A comparison between the original icons, the pre–Creator Studio icons, and the non–Creator Studio icons. Adam Engst: I have to wonder whether the Numbers icon expresses the designer’s disdain for Liquid Glass or the community’s criticism of it. It looks like it’s giving the finger. Ezekiel Elin: I thought that the new Creator Studio […]

Agen Schmitz (MacRumors, Reddit): Goodbye iWork, hello Apple Creator Studio. Apple has released version 15.1 of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers with a bevy of new features, as long as you pony up for the Apple Creator Studio subscription[…] […] $129.99 annual Apple Creator Studio subscription; Keynote, 906.7 MB, release notes; Numbers, 722.3 MB, release notes; […]

New York City, January 2026.

From the video The most intense day of my photography career ~ New York City snowstorm.

Day 41: 4.06 miles 🏃‍♂️💨 Went for a shorter, but faster pace. Happy to be sub 9:30! #eugenemarathon

Today's song: Eyes of the World.

Lord Dunsany, from The King of Elfland’s Daughter:

There passed ten years over the fields we know; and Orion grew and learned the art of Oth, and had the cunning of Threl, and knew the woods and the slopes and vales of the downs, as many another boy knows how to multiply figures by other figures or to draw the thoughts from a language not his own and to set them down again in words of his own tongue. And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man’s thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

Podcast: It occurred to me yesterday that there are a lot of parallels with Frontier on the Mac in the early 90s and WordLand and WordPress in the 2020s. So I told the story in a podcast and I think it came out really well. I did some editing at the beginning and end, and as usual my audio editing is pretty crude, but otherwise the story is exactly as I told it. I also asked Claude.ai to do a third-person summary of the podcast, as I did with the previous three shows, and it's getting better. I thought it's summary was great except it added it's opinion of how much I deserved a vacation, and it was right, I did, but how did it know I deserved it? Anyway, I encourage anyone who's involved in the WordPress community to listen. I think WP has a bigger role to play in the web than it currently has, which imho is saying a lot. 15 minutes.

Day 40: Recovery day 😴

#eugenemarathon

My recent rumination about “The Greatest Invention Is…” triggered some thinking around my long-held beliefs about the duality of technology. It left me brooding over the weekend about the present and the future. I started going through my notes and came across two separate entries with my thoughts on “stuff” I had accumulated during my …

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New York City, January 2026.

From the video The most intense day of my photography career ~ New York City snowstorm.

Craig Grannell (Mastodon): Still, I did write ‘Why I want Apple Arcade to include classic arcade games – and why that’ll never happen’. But now it has happened, thanks to Retrocade. And here’s the bit that genuinely surprised me: Retrocade is good to the point I think it’s the best entry point for normal people […]

Apple (via Hacker News): The traditional Mach scheduler attempts to achieve these goals by expecting all threads in the system to be tagged with a priority number and treating high priority threads as interactive threads and low priority threads as batch threads. It then uses a timesharing model based on priority decay to penalize threads […]

Brent Simmons (2025): With retirement imminent — this is my last job, and June 6 is my last day (maybe I’ve buried the lede here) — I want to thank my team publicly for how they’ve made me a better engineer and, more importantly, a better person. Brent Simmons (Mastodon): I’m not retiring from writing apps — […]

It’s a great time to be a Seattle sports fan. The Seahawks and the Sonics are both reigning champions!

Problem in Drummer blogs. oldschool.scripting.com is now served on https and the code in the template doesn't take that into account. For example, if you try to load the home page of my blog, you won't get through because it can't open the http files in the head of the template. This is something users can fix because you get to change your template. So I'm going to stay focused on my current work.

My friend and colleague Elizabeth Corey: If there’s anything that could shake the confidence of the conservative warrior, it might be to consider what he’s sacrificing. I would put the question this way: what have you given up in fighting your political battles, in making y...

“Trevor Noah and Lady Gaga headlining a Pokemon commercial during the Super Bowl” was not something I ever thought I would say.