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Everyone is working on something with Claude.

Heard on the internets ad nauseum. "I know how to do what you do much better than you do."

I was just marveling with Claude about how well all the pieces are fitting together, two databases, connected by an RSS 2.0 feed and a websocket pipe had to agree on how to communicate the same object. Worked the first time. Small pieces loosely joined.

Apple (transcript, MacRumors, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $2.01, up 22 percent year over year. “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with revenue of $111.2 billion and double-digit growth across every geographic segment,” said […]

Ryan Christoffel (Reddit): Apple recently announced an AI partnership with Google. But reporting indicates the company initially pursued deals with other companies, including Anthropic. Based on new comments from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it’s easy to see why. Gurman, speaking on TBPN, said the following: Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a […]

Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News): All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe’s time has come. […] Pricing in particular has given competitors an opening to attack. Some of the best alternatives aren’t just undercutting Adobe’s price — they’re available for free. People love free. […] Perhaps coincidently, […]

Scoble asks on Twitter if there are successful companies that have an open source product. There are lots of them. There are markets where users and developers won't even consider your product or service if it isn't open source. It's a trust issue. I offered an example, WordPress, which probably wouldn't have launched well if it wasn't open source.

Knicks will play the Sixers in round 2 of the playoffs starting Monday.

I've been teaching Claude why we favor Markdown. "We add support for Markdown editing wherever we can, because people like Markdown and they should. It makes things simple and guarantees a certain level of flexibility for their writing far beyond the standards of twitter-like systems with tiny little text boxes. If you don't really support Markdown people figure it out right away. But the character limits and stuff like that seem more technical to users. Markdown support says clearly -- you're really on the web."

Something weird happens as you get older, you walk into a room and see a friend but at first you don't get that this is your friend. Instead you see an old man or lady. Your attention goes away because like everyone you are programmed not to look at old people. Then you instantly realize this is your friend. You put on the virtual colored glasses that let you see them as you remember them, instead of what's there today.

On Bluesky: I asked ChatGPT when weblogs.com peaked.

I've heard that Automattic is running a special deal where developers inside the company can take a month off to do their own project to make WordPress better for users. I would like to propose that in the spirit of interop and the web that we work together on a project. I ...

this post is obviously against all new things.

I have a new piece at the Dispatch on the best writer about the Second World War, A. J. Liebling. I am told that if you use the promo code JACOBS at checkout, you’ll get 15% off a Dispatch membership.

Regarding my earlier post about the cleverness of Tim Cook’s solution to Apple’s dilemma regarding how to apply for, and accept, a potential tariff refund check without drawing the ire of Donald “Tariff Is My Favorite Word” Trump, at least one reader asked why Tim Cook comm...

Remember the appalling but utterly-unsurprising story two months ago where a team of investigative reporters in Sweden uncovered a company in Kenya contracted by Meta to review video content captured by Meta’s “smart” glasses? They spoke to some of the workers, who told tale...

One more from Jason Snell, from his analysis of Apple’s quarterly results: During a complicated question from J.P. Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee about product margins, Parekh unusually half-answered the question and then stopped and “turned it over to Tim” so that Cook...