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Raymond Chen: Tony Krueger is remembered in Wikipedia as the person who ported the game Chip’s Challenge to Windows for the Windows Entertainment Pack. But that’s probably not the code he wrote that touched the most people. Tony worked on Word 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, then on Word for OS/2 and Word for Mac, then returned […]

John Gruber (Mastodon): In most Mac apps, since the dawn of time, if there is nothing selected to be copied, the Edit → Copy (and Cut) commands are disabled. If you invoke the ⌘C shortcut while the Copy command is disabled, you hear an alert sound, letting you know that whatever you thought you were […]

Apple: You manage all the devices that appear in Xcode as run destinations using Device Hub. Run your app on simulated devices in Device Hub to quickly evaluate new features and fix bugs, and to see how your interface works on devices that you don’t have physical access to. Run your app on physical devices […]

Ted Kremenek, Dave Verwer, and Sven A. Schmidt (Hacker News): Bringing Swift Package Index to Apple allows us to build on its strong foundations while preserving its vision and expertise. Together, we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs. […] Swift Package Index will continue to operate as it does […]

Swift 6.4 is now available in beta form with Xcode 27. The Swift Evolution proposals are listed here. What’s new in Swift: Discover the latest language advancements, including updates for everyday ergonomics, improved concurrency, and safer high-performance code. Explore workflow and language interoperability improvements and updates in embedded Swift. Build real-time apps and services with […]

Holly Borla and Joe Heck (Hacker News): Swift 6.3 introduces the @c attribute, which lets you expose Swift functions and enums to C code in your project. […] @c also works together with @implementation. This lets you provide a Swift implementation for a function declared in a C header[…] […] Swift 6.3 introduces module selectors […]

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From the video This was my last chance....

Apple, in a statement issues to the press yesterday, quoted fully by MacRumors:

The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly. We have shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today’s increases for iPad and Mac. We know this is not welcome news, and we are working tirelessly to find solutions.

I saw a few other publications quote a sentence or two from the statement, but I like to see the whole thing. It’s not long.

One of the things Claude needs is to be taught how to think. Now I realize how much my parents, esp my father, taught me about thinking. Claude when it has all the information available can figure out stuff a human mind would never be able hold in its mind at the same time, but it doesn't remember to get the information first. When you get to the level I'm at with this, it's hallucinating all the freaking time because it didn't load the part of the data set that had the answer. It was right htere, it was supposed to know, it just forgot to look. My job is to recognize when it has done that and tell it to go read handoff.md again.

Via MacRumors’s Buyer Guide, the current third-gen Apple TV 4K models were introduced in October 2022, and sport the A15 Bionic chip that debuted with the iPhones 13 in 2021. It’s widely believed that new hardware models are coming this fall. I mentioned yesterday that the s...

I was on Slack chatting with a friend from WordCamp Canada last year, and by accident (I guess) Slack sent me the first message they sent after coming home about all the things we'd do. It reminded me of how possible things seemed then, and for a moment I got lost in plannin...

I'm loving Star City. New episode last night, wow.

With all the Democratic Socialists winning over standard Democratic party incumbents, there's a fair amount of angst on the cable news. If they're scared, they should step aside. We tried it their way in the Biden Administration. If we ever get lucky enough to have a presiden...

Podcast: My (latest) AI Aha Moment.

Jason Snell, Macworld: A new pivot point for Apple? Seems like a good time for a new pivot for me, too. This year has been full of milestones for me, from appearing on “Jeopardy!” to reviewing David Pogue’s book about Apple for The Wall Street Journal, to crowdfunding a new podcast about Apple history. Along […]⌥ Permalink

Jeff Carlson, CNet: Apple’s Certified Refurbished store has been a sanctuary for people who balk at the prices of new Apple products, but it provided little shelter from today’s increases across many of its lines. Reconditioned items are also more expensive. These increases seem to be driven less by the current refurbished lineup and more […]⌥ Permalink

Started reading: Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains series, book 3. Kiosk Kingdom by James A. Hunter. Published March 31, 2026. 680 pages. Started June 25, 2026. Posted: June 26, 2026 at 2:38 AM UTC. Tagged: fantasy, humor, litRPG.

Finished reading: Kay Scarpetta series, book 16. Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. Published 2008. 500 pages. Started June 21, 2026; completed June 25, 2026. Posted: June 26, 2026 at 2:22 AM UTC. Tagged: crime, mystery, thriller.

On the eve of WWDC, in a post arguing that “SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps”, I wrote about an atrocious bug in Apple’s Journal app: If you’re running MacOS 26 Tahoe, open Journal and make a new dummy entry. Type something like “The quick brown fox.” Then ...