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Bob MacDonald, Sr., 1935-2025.

Yesterday was the first anniversary of my dad’s death. He was a great father and a wonderful teacher, among many other things. We held off on publishing his obituary while getting his estate sorted. I decided to publish it on his anniversary.

One of the things you learn working with a bot is how much saying the niceties are good for you, even when the "person" would still do what you ask if you weren't so nice.

Of course I love RSS. ;-)

Ultimately AI will flatten out the differences in languages.

The month of July is history. A fine month. A coral reef was seeded.

Michael Lopp, at Rands in Repose: I have felt since it was announced that the Apple iPhone Upgrade Program has not just been a deal, but a steal. The specifics: You apply for a loan for a full-price iPhone at 0%. If approved, your payments are split over 24 months. Pay...

Jason Snell: On Thursday, Apple announced record third-quarter earnings, with total revenue of $109.4B, up 16 percent from the year-ago quarter. iPhone revenue was up 22%, Mac revenue was up 10.4%, Services revenue was up 12%, and Wearables revenue was up 6%. iPad revenu...

A year ago we were in Paris to visit a very large exhibition of the work of David Hockney. It was amazing, and we spent much more time there than anticipated. Hockney had an active role in this exhibition and also created new work for it. It turned out to be his last as well, […]

Apple (transcript, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. […] “Today, Apple is proud to report our strongest June quarter ever, with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac and Services, and in every geographic segment,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. Jason Snell: iPhone revenue was up […]

John Voorhees: What sets Pastebot 3 apart is its addition of deep automation tools. Not only does the update add MCP support, making it an excellent tool to use with Claude or ChatGPT/Codex, but it includes a brand new CLI that you or an agent can use from Terminal or incorporate into scripts you build. […]

Marcin Wichary: The problem is that PAMS is drunk with power and flattens everything on its way[…] That includes: emphasis by italics or bolding links bulleted and numbered lists strike-through text headlines None of these are “style.” This is actual information that should not be removed. Sometimes, Paste and Match Style is what you want, […]

Gus Mueller (release notes): A new brushing engine that has been rewritten using Metal shaders. It includes an option for “velocity thinning”, where the faster you draw your brush strokes, the thinner the lines. A new acorn shell tool that you can use to send JavaScript to Acorn, as well as start an MCP server. […]

Sayan Sen (Hacker News): For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how […]

Deepa Seetharaman and Raphael Satter, Reuters: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped ​containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attention this month, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Not satisfied with just a couple of […]⌥ Permalink

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica: According to [Judge] Engelmayer, it would be impractical to expect partners to update licensing deals every time a company rolls out new security methods. Additionally, Engelmayer found that “the Google Decision is not to the contrary” of Reddit’s case because, unlike Google, Reddit went “beyond the bare allegation” that Google used […]⌥ Permalink

Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI.

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The hardest thing for people to get about open systems is that if you move forward, not only do you benefit, but your competitors benefit equally. When one of them takes but doesn't give back, that's even worse. But you do it anyway because otherwise eventually, without interop, no one can move.

Shop like a billionaire.

Galicia, June 2018.

I'm going through the archives and I found a few good ones, like this image of a wet road on a foggy morning somewhere near Cedeira.