When you need a good album to cook to, I highly recommend Dusty in Memphis.
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Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Apple Park: Designed to Isolate
Malcolm Crawford (Mastodon): The open-plan floors make it hard to concentrate. The building is so large that getting from one meeting to the next eats real time out of the day. It’s common for people to run meetings with colleagues over Webex — colleagues on the same campus, sometimes no more than two hundred yards […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
The EnshAIttification of Day One
Aleem Shaun: I’ve used Day One for more than a decade. It was an excellent journalling app. Private, minimal, easy to use, with excellent features such as geolocation, weather, ‘On this Day’, and book printing. Features that got out of the way and either worked quietly in the background or appeared only when you summoned […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Apple Services Price Hikes 2026
Chance Miller: Here are the new monthly prices for Apple Music and Apple One as of today: Apple Music Individual: $11.99 (up from $10.99) Family: $19.99 (up from $16.99) Student: $6.99 (up from $5.99) Apple One Individual: $19.95 (unchanged) Family: $27.95 (up from $25.95) Premier: $39.95 (up from $37.95) The price increases for Apple Music […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Apple Financial Statements: Products vs. Services
John Gruber (Mastodon, 2): Some of [Cook’s letter] remains true, but has lost some truthiness — and truthiness matters. But some of it is no longer true, period. It’s no longer just “one small part” of Apple’s business that serves advertisers. Here in 2026, search results in the App Store not only show paid ads — frequently for casinos — but […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Licensing a Mac App With RevenueCat
Jared Sorge: I know there are options out there like Paddle, FastSpring, and Lemon Squeezy that have worked for many apps like mine over the years. But I also wanted something simple for my users. Not to mention Apple Pay was a must-have. I believe all the services he mentions do support Apple Pay. RevenueCat […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Git Tower 17
Bruno Brito (release notes): In Tower 15, we introduced the “Fully Merged” badge and Automatic Branch Management to help you keep your repository tidy. With Tower 17, we’re taking the detection behind that badge to a whole new level. […] Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service, such […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Siri AI Beta
Federico Viticci (Mastodon): The AI frontier from the two big labs (and – we have to be honest with the numbers here – probably SpaceXAI and Meta now, too) is in a completely different league at the moment. I spent my first couple of weeks with Siri AI trying to convince myself that I could […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
notarytool Can’t Handle Zip64 Files
Wade Tregaskis: In short: if you have any file in your app (or whatever it is you’re trying to get Apple to sign) that is over 4 GiB, you must use a disk image (DMG) to package it for notarytool, not a zip file. This is because support for files larger than 4 GiB requires […]
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• Adrian Vila
Balanced Rock, I
Five minutes from snooze.
Comment’s Seedbeds of Christian Humanism gallery is a wonderful resource.
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Pixel Envy
• Nick Heer
Blaming Data Centres, Alberta Electricity Industry Expects Tripling of Power Prices
If you believe Meta, its forthcoming Albertan data centre will be, at worst, unnoticeable to people across this province: We pay the full costs of our data centers’ energy use so consumers aren’t negatively impacted, and fund new and upgraded infrastructure. We worked closely with Greenlight Limited Partnership, Altalink, Capitol Power, and the Alberta Electric […]⌥ Permalink
Watched: Room 999. This revisiting of Wim Wenders’s 1982 documentary Room 666 is often interesting and sometimes fascinating. (It must be said that not all filmmakers are especially articulate about what they do — this is evident in the original film as well.) Perhaps the comment that strikes me most forcibly is when Audrey Diwan wonders what will happen to her children’s sense of narrative when all the stories they experience are less than a minute long. And this is something to be concerned about. Many of the most important things in our lives develop over years; will people be capable of reckoning wisely with their experience if the only stories they know reach a resolution in 60 seconds? 🍿
Note published on July 20, 2026 at 10:14 PM UTC
alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it.
it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.
Note published on July 19, 2026 at 11:13 PM UTC
Just had to patch a bug on the Tech Influence Watch Michigan House District 13 election page, stemming from Shri Thanedar reporting -$1.1 million in receipts.
Why is Thanedar reporting negative receipts? He put $3.7 million of campaign funds into crypto.
Two-thirds of the Michigan congressman's campaign cash last quarter came from AIPAC bundlers after he invested millions in crypto.
Daring Fireball
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[Sponsor] WorkOS MCP: Manage Your Auth Platform From Any AI Agent
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