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Apple (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): Explore what’s new for macOS 27. The page is designed in an annoying way that requires sideways scrolling, and there doesn’t seem to be a PDF list of the new features like in previous years. See also: Jason Snell Juli Clover Marcus Mendes William Gallagher Mr. […]

Apple (release notes, guide, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for iOS 27. See also: Juli Clover Federico Viticci Dan Moren Malcolm Owen Devon Dundee: The reason you should update your Apple devices today is performance. Previously: iOS 27 Public Beta iOS 27 Announced iOS 27 “Rave” Update to Clean Up Code iOS 26

Apple (release notes, guide, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for iPadOS 27. See also: Juli Clover Federico Viticci Previously: iPadOS 27 Announced iPadOS 26

Apple (release notes, security, developer): Explore what’s new for watchOS 27. See also: Juli Clover John Voorhees Previously: watchOS 27 Announced watchOS 26

Apple (release notes, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for visionOS 27. See also: Juli Clover Devon Dundee Previously: visionOS 27 Announced visionOS 26

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): tvOS 27 features a redesigned Podcasts app, options for larger text and customizable subtitles, and a more responsive Control Center. AirPlaying to an Apple TV from another Apple device is faster, apps open quicker, and animations are smoother. tvOS 27 works on the 2nd and 3rd generation Apple […]

Juli Clover (no release notes): HomePod Software 27 adds AirPlay improvements and support for AutoMix when listening to Apple Music. Ryan Christoffel: AirPlay improvements may sound like a minor change, but in practice they can make a big difference in connecting quicker than ever to your HomePod. Using the iOS 27 beta, I’ve been pleasantly […]

Galicia, August 2026.

From the video Great conditions, very little time.

Armin Briegel at Scripting OS X has compiled links for all the release notes for all of today’s OS updates (features, developer, security). In addition to the 27.0 updates, Apple also released 26.7 updates and MacOS 15.8 Sequoia. Big day.

The next milestone will be installing Atlantis on my new macbook, and hooking a monitor up to it, a really nice one, and move my work to that desk. then Berkeley, the name of the system I've been using for eight years, will be here as a backup and source of truth and prior art. That was the goal of the Atlantis project. I could probably do the switch right now. It's like moving out of an old house that you did good stuff in, into a replica, but built out of the latest bits. Honestly I never thought in a million years I'd get here.

I spent a great chunk of last week at SmashingConf Freiburg and it was lovely as usual. It was great to meet some people I've only ever seen online and see old friends. And I am not going to lie - it was pretty flattering to have people come over to me and challenge me to ad...

Miles Abbott:

Open x.com links in a popup so you can read the one post and leave. Port of the Litterbox Safari extension.

Litterbox is a cleverer name, but Dumpster Fire is funnier.

My longtime friend Jeff Jarvis says the press is covering the wrong story re AI. I agree, but I think Jeff is covering the wrong story too. This is really a discovery like electricity, or Newtonian physics, calculus, basically the technology of knowledge. I wish I were 22 years old now so I could plan out a long career working this way. I want people like Jeff to understand. They all stopped listening to me when my dreams of a web society were destroyed by the VCs. I'm even smarter and more experienced now than I was then, and I have better tools. Please, listen -- you're all missing the point. It should be a matter of great interest -- what can we do with this. All we hear about are fears, which aren't even informed by what the tech can do. Very typical of journalism. Let's do better this time.

It is probably the closest to First Contact with an intelligent alien life form that our species will ever have.

XCancel:

Unfortunately, due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings, we are required to suspend this service again until further notice. We can’t share more details.

Not surprised, and not sure what to make of the “can’t share more details” part. Again, if you want to avoid visiting X but want to see the content posted there linked from other sites (and, let’s admit it at this point: there’s not just a lot posted on X, it is outright resurgent in popularity), install a browser extension like Litterbox (Safari) or Post Peek (Chrome).

Man, it feels great to be doing all my online writing at micro.blog. What a fantastic service @manton has built — and is still building!

Saying goodbye to WordPress. I won’t stop writing longer posts, I’ll just be writing them here and at Cosmos Malick and at a new blog that I am calling, unimaginatively I suppose, Personal History. I’ve begun it by re-posting a few autobiographical pieces from the old WordPress blog, and I will be adding to those over time — largely for my own sake, as I’m trying to make sense of some of the odder things about my life. But since most of my readers are unlikely to be interested in all that, I’ll keep it siloed in its own blog.

It’s all part of the Ayjay Empire, though. As far as I can tell, most of my readers find out what I’m writing through the weekly newsletter/digest and don’t really care to what URL the links go. Nothing will change for you, if you’re one of those people, and little will change for anyone else. 

My thanks to Glyphs for sponsoring this last week at DF. Glyphs 4 is a truly native Mac app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Glyphs lets you draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge sets of glyphs, and explore variable vector d...

On a good day working with Claude is like working with my old UW-Madison programmer friend Gary Sevitsky from the 70s.