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Heather Burns: I cannot tell you how much it disgusts me that so much of the archival footage from September 11 has now been age-gated and restricted as “mature” or “sensitive or adult” content, as in this example from this Reddit film archive. It’s history. It’s archival footage of history. It’s a thing that happened. […]⌥ Permalink

Aaron Vegh and Ben Rice McCarthy have been steadily updating Indigo since they launched it in May. In the latest version, you can now swipe between different filtered timelines, the scroll position is synced between devices, and there is a new lower price point if you use it exclusively for a single network. As for […]⌥ Permalink

Happy Star Trek Day to all who celebrate. 🖖

According to my father, we got our first color TV so we could watch it, 60 years ago today.

We chatted about it on my old Star Trek Voyager podcast.

One year later and it feels like both the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air could be announced tomorrow, not a year ago, and would seem fresh and exciting.

There are good Elle Cordova videos, and there are great ones. (Last mentioned here for her “Fonts Hanging Out” trilogy.)

Zac Hall (July): Apple just updated TestFlight for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more. The new version, 4.3, introduces “a search field to quickly find apps.” John Gruber: But when Apple implemented this change, they also changed the sort order of the list of apps you’re registered to test. Starting with this update, the list is […]

James Calligeros (Hacker News, Phoronix): Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC! Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal microphones, USB (up to […]

John Brayton: NSTrackingSeparatorToolbarItem adds a white band over the top of the leading split view panes when in full screen mode on macOS 27 [beta 3]. That white band appears to have the height of the toolbar. He says this was fixed in Beta 4. John Brayton: macOS 27 developer beta 5 (26A5406e) introduces a […]

Natalia Panferova: I thought it would be useful to have a single reference for the different ways we can style the toolbar in SwiftUI on macOS 26. Phil Zakharchenko: The toolbar id creates a stable customization domain, and each item id gives the framework something stable to persist when the user adds, removes, or reorders […]

Galicia, August 2026.

From the video This $10 filter cost me the photo of the year.

Claude Code massively stinks at explaining things in a way that a human can understand.

My latest typewriter interviews are with two cartoonists — one is a fully-drawn and pithy eye feast from Adam Koford, and the other a surprisingly wordy meal from Kevin Huizenga:

I used a quote from Patrick O’Brian’s Post Captain to start my letter, “No urge to be doing”: “There are days… when one sees as though one had been blind the rest of one’s life. Such clarity – perfection in everything, not merely in the extraordinary. One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. […]

SuperDuper feels like impossibly good software.

Ideas for Bluesky and WordPress re Markdown and AI systems.

Scott Hanson is working on a WordPress plugin that displays a FeedLand river — a constantly-updated stream of news items from feeds a FeedLand user subscribes to — on a WordPress page or post. It's important that news flows be part of managing a site. Help Scott make it perfect, WordPress is important. The news tab on my blog home page is an example.

Brian Krebs: A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by […]⌥ Permalink

Glyphs 4 is here: a Mac-native app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge glyph sets, explore variable vector designs with complex higher-order interpolation. Build and manage massive font families and icon sets with ease, export all modern font formats, SVG, PNG and PDF. Hundreds of refinements and native Tahoe support make designing, testing and shipping your vectors smoother than ever. Glyphs 4: Create. Love the process.

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Trackables: There are plenty of health tracking apps. Surprisingly, nearly all of them are bloated, subscription-gated, or blatantly harvesting our data; often all three. We wanted something simpler, less annoying and more fun, that’s where it started. Trackables turns ...