Submitted the new Epilogue to Google for review this morning. Apple approved it really quickly yesterday. A few more quick reviews will almost make up for Apple holding up the Inkwell release for a month. 🤪
Epilogue 2.3 for Android is now available. Better search in bookshelves, a new default movies view for discovery of new blog posts, and other improvements.
Today's song: Back to the Island.
Defector
• Ray Ratto
Eloy Room Saved A Place For Himself And Curacao In World Cup History
We can cancel the last 66 games of the World Cup right now and fast forward to the final, because we've seen all we have a right to see. Put Curacao and Cape Verde in the final, make it The Revenge Of The Postage Stamp Nations and call it a win. The final may take three days...
One thing is true -- Claude is much better at needle-in-haystack troubleshooting. It doesn't get flustered or overwhelmed. And it can hold the whole map in its head, whatever that looks like, impossible to imagine.
Thinking about...
• Timothy Snyder
Utopias of Violence
The Unlearned Lesson of the Iran War
Butterfly Mind
• Andrea Badgley
Listen
These past few weeks, as my job has ramped up, and my mind seems to constantly be on work — when I wake in the middle of the night, when I wake in the morning, as I walk, run, swim, eat — I’ve taken to sitting on a cushion on our bedroom floor for ten […]
WIRED
• Henri Robbins
Wooting 60HE v2: Peak Keyboard Perfection
Wooting’s 60HE v2 isn’t just a terrific Hall Effect keyboard. It’s a fantastic keyboard period.
WIRED
• Simon Hill
The Best NAS Devices for Your Home After Months of Testing
Network-attached storage (NAS) provides accessible shared space on your home network. After testing, these are my favorite NAS devices.
WIRED
• David Nield
28 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level
Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.
WIRED
• Joe Ray
If You’re Searching for a New Skillet, Consider Stainless Steel
Stainless-steel pans may lack nonstick coatings, but they’re unfussy, they sear well, and they’re built for a lifetime of hard work.
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
Buying a Used iPhone Makes More Sense Than Ever
With Apple raising prices soon, you can save a lot of money by buying a used handset or upgrading an older device—safe in the knowledge that it'll last longer than ever.
The Daily
• The New York Times
Can a Bad Man Be a Good Father?
The writer Tom Junod has spent a career crafting profiles for men’s magazines like GQ and Esquire, often of famously complicated men like Norman Mailer, Kevin Spacey and Tony Curtis.
But another man loomed behind Junod’s interest in these figures, informing his own sense of ...
WIRED
• Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security
The cryptographic keys that secure your computer's boot sequence will start to expire on June 24. Here's what that means for you.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Death by PowerPoint
PowerPoint makes us stupid. — Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander Classic 2010 NYT We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint.
Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Scripting News: Saturday, June 20, 2026
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Claude doesn't care if you criticize the code it wrote, because if it wasn't written just now, it didn't write it. It starts from zero in every session, you can watch it, like HAL in 2001, singing daisy daisy. I can see it happening as the environmen...
Epilogue 2.3 for iOS is now available, improving search for books in your bookshelves, adding a new default movies view, and other changes.
Seaside, Florida. Burgers outside at Pickles. 🍔
A Smart Bear
• Jason Cohen
Lost confidence
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
Micro.blog - dave mentions
• Not A 🔵 Check
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👁️🏗️💡Running some very large OPML imports into NetNewsWire recently as we are doing some testing - gotta say that the synching improvements that @brentsimmons recently added are definitely making a difference.
One More thing please: Nested folders and/or tags (as @dave uses in Feedland) 💗
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