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Jason Snell: From the first time I put on the Vision Pro, I never could get Optic ID to work quite right. I couldn’t set it up to work for the longest time, and when I finally did, using it to unlock the device only worked sporadically. […] Worse, though, is that I also wasn’t […]

Tim Hardwick: On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision letting Apple keep its current zero-fee link-out commission structure in place while it appeals to the Supreme Court. The reversal means Apple now has to return to a lower court to work out what fees it can charge developers who steer […]

600 words from Hartley Charlton at MacRumors expounding upon a wacko post on Weibo suggesting that Apple is debating dropping MagSafe from all iPhones (which post, translated to English, is only 70-some words). Given that last year’s 16e didn’t have MagSafe and this year’s 17e does, you don’t need a pseudonymous Chinese weatherman to know which way the MagSafe wind is blowing in Cupertino.

On Bluesky: "I'm learning from all the faces of WordPress."

Brilliant statue, hilarious intro video. The greatest artist of our age.

The product described on wordpress.com/social is not a real product, I am told by someone inside who I have worked with and trust. They say there will be a lot of these trial products coming out in the coming weeks because this is a project that Matt has given to all develop...

Oh boy. Over the past few days, an article has been doing the rounds as a testimonial for the ludicrousness of AI versus human costs. From that piece, one specific quote (originally from another article) has gone viral and is now under scrutiny all over the internet. Fortune, Tom’s Hardware, TechSpot, Futurism, Yahoo Finance. Reddit. …

Hal Foster:

Looking at a painting is a welcome respite from scanning a screen. In that sense, this exercise is reactive: I labor in the small cottage industry of attention that has sprouted up in the cracks of the massive complex of distraction all around us. A phenomenological turn often occurs at times of intensive mediation, but the point is not simply to have our perceptions mirrored back to us. T. J. Clark has put the aim nicely: “When I am in front of a picture the thing I most want is to enter the picture’s world: it is the possibility of doing so that makes pictures worth looking at for me.” To look at a painting is also to exit our world for a while, and then to return to it cast in a different — distant — light. The time travel is often wonderful, and almost free.

Currently reading: Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock. Bullock is obviously drawing on Plutarch — and the story of how widely read Plutarch used to be versus how completely unknown he is today is a story worth telling — but he also says this in his preface: “Looking back, I cannot think of a better preparation for writing about Hitler and Stalin than the familiarity I acquired at Oxford in the 1930s with Thucydides, Tacitus, and those sections of Aristotle’s Politics that deal with the Greek experience of tyranny.” If we today had the lessons of ancient history ready to hand we could have much more productive political debates. People who know only the present — i.e. almost everybody — have no means of comparative measurement and so live by the feels. 📚

Hank Green’s timeline of Artemis mission photos is great.

After my previous post about why we accept human errors but are harsher on machines, two longtime readers and pillars of the resilience engineering community reached out to point out the error of my ways. Courtney Nash of the Resilience in Software Foundation wrote a long response, pointing to errors in my thinking and framing. …

Nathan Manceaux-Panot: Cut, copy and paste commits between branches Copy a commit with ⌘C, then paste it on another branch with ⌘V Or, cut the commit with ⌘X, to move rather than duplicate Paste above the selection using ⇧⌘V, or using the context menu Paste hashes from other apps to insert commits Or, directly drag […]

Gus Mueller (release notes): There’s a new “Bendable” type of Arrow shape which lets you add a nice adjustable curve to your arrow. You can also have arrow heads on either end (or both) of the shape. […] SVG importing has been much improved. Drop shadows, text on a path, poly lines, transforms, reading css […]

Scott Wiener: Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced SB 1074, the Blocking Anticompetitive Self-preferencing by Entrenched Dominant platforms (BASED) Act, which is sponsored by Y Combinator and Economic Security California Action. The BASED Act will restore competition to the digital marketplace by prohibiting any digital platform with a market capitalization greater than $1 trillion and […]

Tim Hardwick: Following the latest update of Apple’s Invites app, hosts can now manually edit the guest list to update guest responses and adjust the number of additional guests. […] Elsewhere, the dashboard has been expanded with an All Events view, bringing both upcoming and past events into a single, unified interface. Sharing options have […]

Glenn Fleishman: I set out a few weeks ago to compile a list of all items with certified Find My. Friends, I thought it would number between 20 and 30 items. It started to become unmanageable, so I built a site—FindYourTag—both for my own reference and because why not share it? […] Apple’s absence is […]

Upgrade: And when that’s done, we finish our Apple at 50 coverage with a vibe-based draft. Dr. Drang: My favorite picks were the oddballs, the products that weren’t Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or Apple IIs. In other words: the accessories. I was particularly pleased with Jason’s picks of the LaserWriter, the Apple Disk II, the […]

Joanna Stern chose to use the first post-announcement post on her new site to return to a familiar issue that remains unresolved: Here’s my main question: John Ternus, can you turn-us the iPhone autocorrect around? […] Over the last few months, I’ve noticed more autocorrect mishaps on my iPhone 17 Pro. And I’m not alone. […]

I’m getting a start on my critical edition of Auden’s Nones, and reflecting that one of the chief pleasures of doing this work is the requirement that I own and consult the original Random House and Faber editions of the volumes. I’m amassing an interesting collection.