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Om Malik died. A longtime friend, most generous kind person in Silicon Valley. It's that time of life. Much love to you brother.

There’s more to freedom for users than open source. We need fluid unobstructed movement of our ideas. Interop between networks, the same basic idea that created the internet, and that has kept podcasting unowned for 22 years. I am going to ship a textcasting social network soon. It will be open source in new ways made possible by AI.

Terrible news: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. I will miss Malik’s writing, of course. I will also miss his photography, where he had found a distinctive and recognizable style that was very often breathtaking. […]⌥ Permalink

Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments below or by posting and tagging his accounts on X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, or LinkedIn. To learn more …

Heartbreaking news, shared by Om’s family:

Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.

We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments below or by posting and tagging his accounts on X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, or LinkedIn.

Om kept this battle very private, so this news comes as a terrible surprise for many, and an incomprehensible gut punch for everyone who knew and loved him. Rest in peace, my friend.

So it goes.

Galicia, June 2026.

From the video Always be ready, and luck will follow.

Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): The company briefly took down its Apple Online Store early this morning as it typically does when announcing new products. When it came back online, the price tags for Mac computers rose roughly 15% to 20%...

I bet Ward Cunningham is really good at using Claude, he is a big believer in pair programming. I even did a session with him in Frontier, doing stuff with the outliner.

Bij de Open State Foundation (waar ik voorzitter ben) zoeken we een nieuwe directeur! Herken jij je in het profiel (PDF), en ben je net zo bevlogen als ons team om digitale transparantie bij de overheid te bevorderen en onze democratie te versterken? Dan horen we heel graag van je! Nadrukkelijk ook als je vindt […]

Here is a little marketing pop quiz for you: the company you work for wants to increase the prices of its products across the board urgently — and by a significant amount — because key components are suddenly more expensive. Which strategy do you choose? Wait until there is a good time, like the next […]⌥ Permalink

Claude is a brain, very different from ours and when we work together we humans have access to capabilities that work really well with building large software products. And that's a huge understatement. Most remarkable thing. I am a programmer with 50+ years experience. Most of the discussion between people who use the AI tools and those that condemn them are not productive because the opponents of AI don't have understand how these things actually work, or if they do that understanding is not reflected in their arguments. I recommend starting an academic dialog, among people who don't have conflicts of interest, to accurately record this discussion based on facts, for the record, so when people ask how we did this transition, there will actually be some footprints to follow.

Good morning sports fans!

The Bear season 5, the show's last season, premieres on Hulu at 9PM EST today.

In reply to Setting up Webmentions by Alex Hyett It’s always good to see a blogger adding Webmentions to their site. Cross-blog conversations are to me what blogging is about. And Webmentions are a useful piece of plumbing to make it so. If your set-up works, then this should show up at your end. Blog […]

Jeff Johnson: Several weeks ago, John Gruber of Daring Fireball asked me whether I could reproduce an issue he was seeing in Safari: when a web page is focused, the Copy menu item in the main menu is always enabled, regardless of whether there’s anything selected in the ...

Wednesday waves. Photo + video. From the viewpoint on Highway 101, so more traffic sounds than ocean sounds. It’s neat to see the fog receding after being blanketed the last 24 hours.

🌊 Pacific Wave Appreciation Society 👋

No þinge is meriar þen Ihesu to synge. — Richard Rolle

The WebKit blog (back during WWDC): If you look through the lists of features and fixes in Safari 27, you’ll notice that, although there are 58 brand-new features and 525 fixes — the largest pile of fixes in any Safari release in recent memory — most of what is released ...

Galicia, June 2026.

From the video Always be ready, and luck will follow.