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Manton wants to know why Marc Benioff chose the name Claudeforce for his brand-merge of Salesforce and Claude. My two cents. Claude is a great name. I think that’s ultimately what he bought. His customers just want to be able to check the box – we’re using AI. Boss is happy. When I was coming up as a young dude in tech, the old saying was “No one ever got fired for buying IBM.” Today, in 2026, it’s Claude in place of IBM. My father worked in marketing at IBM in Armonk, so I heard a lot about their strategies that meant the IBM brand would be kicking ass forever. All things must pass. But in the early days of the PC industry, IBM sure had the power. Kind of like the US going to war with Iran in 2026. In the end IBM wanted to get rid of Microsoft, but Billg had the last laugh.
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• Nick Heer
An un-bylined Canadian Press report: U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as tensions with Canada worsen. Elect stupid people and get stupid policies. This report contains a good explanation of the name’s history, and also has a deliciously petty map illustrating […]⌥ Permalink
Jason Fried
• Jason Fried
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Heard an interview with Bill Gates on an Atlantic podcast, he relies on a few years of programming he did when he was in his teens and twenties, yet he is the most prominent person who knows anything about programming. This is a societal mistake. We have to have public discourse about tech that's as informed as Krugman is on economics, and Heather Cox Richardson is on American history.
Just learned about Freston Tower from a friend who stayed there.
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Marcin Wichary: By default, on a Mac, the initial delay is 500ms, and the key repeat rate 1000ms. […] My suggestion is to make them both as short as possible for testing. […] First, it’s good to test whether your keystrokes behave well when repeated. Occasionally you might want your interface to suppress repeating, or […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Hartley Charlton: On the new keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps are labeled with glyphs rather than edge text. On the full-size models with a numeric keypad, the change goes further, with the home, page up, page down, end, clear, and enter keys also swapping their text labels for symbols. Four […]
Michael Tsai
• Michael Tsai
Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): Apple today released a new version of its Polishing Cloth on its online store. In the U.S., pricing is now set at $9, down from $19 for the previous version of the cloth. Starry Horizon (via Hartley Charlton): new polishing cloth and comparison with the old one, dimensions are pretty much […]
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