My M1 iPad Pro feels like it might live forever. It’s been my primary computer for over five years now, and I have zero complaints about it. It does everything I need it to do, it still feels fast,…

’Tis But Some Quick News for June 25, 2026 It is not an understatement to say that Mark Zuckerberg’s particular Facebookian flavor of AI psychosis has been wreaking havoc on Meta’s engineering…

Someone is using your face to sell weight loss pills. Someone else pasted your likeness into a political ad you’d never endorse. A third person built an entire social media channel around…

My thanks to Tim Chaten for having me back on Vision Pros to discuss our first couple of weeks testing visionOS 27. There’s a lot of cool stuff in the update, and we dove into all of it, as well as…

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Apple used to bend suppliers to their will. The world has changed.

Woooo I’ve made some Yoto cards of my kids album! Now your kids can get down whenever they flippin’ like! My kids have been absolutely rinsing it, which I’m chuffed about (while also growing sick of…

The UK recently passed a new law that effectively bans children under the age of 16 from using most social-media platforms, a move that the UK government notes was based explicitly on…

June 25, 2026 MacBook Neo ($100 increase) 256GB: $599 to $699 512GB : $699 to $799 […] 13-inch MacBook Air ($200 to $800 increase) 16GB, 512GB: $1,099 to $1,299 32GB, 4TB: $2,699 to $3,499 15-inch…

I noticed that the Charter/Cox merger has been approved by the FCC, the DOJ, and the Public Service Commission of New York. The final hurdle is the California Public Service Commission, where Charter…

Greasing the wheels of Africa's healthcare system.

 The Ridge Tracker Card is a credit card sized Bluetooth tracker that works with Apple’s Find My network. It’s slim to be able to fit into a wallet but the limited size means the Tracker…

Chinese token vendors are weaponising Silicon Valley’s favourite playbook against it [^1], and there’s no easy escape:

Two massive electric SUVs. Both seat six or more. Both have dual motors, all-wheel drive, and enough torque to pin you to your seat. Both are available right now in the Philippines. And both want to…

Astronaut Danny Olivas was among the invited guests for the reveal of space shuttle Endeavour's new vertical display on Wednesday (Jun 24). Having twice launched on an orbiter, Olivas is no stranger…

Good times for the Silicon bro!

Ahhh the mighty Microsoft Zune! While the Zune 30gb and the Zune HD was never sold in Canada, both the Zune 4gb/8gb/16gb and the Zune 80gb/120gb were! I recall being at the high school at the time,…

The best study session is the one you actually do. For most people that means five minutes on the train, ten minutes before bed, a quick review during lunch. The LongTermMemory iOS app is built…

My first attempt at a linux rice

Exactly one week ago, Tim Cook broke the news that Apple would be raising the prices of its products due to the rising costs of memory and storage brought on by the AI industry’s insatiable data…

Newsairy 1.07 adds support for another aggregator: Inoreader. Inoreader is a popular cloud RSS service. If you use it, you can now connect your account to Newsairy — your subscriptions, read state,…

Stealing profitably, Betting on gender reveals, Creating fixable problems

The concept of ‘gluing’ your mix can be pretty nebulous. It basically means taming the dynamics of a full mix to sound more cohesive. This is generally achieved through compression and…

This week’s episode of Upgrade (which I listened to on a longish drive yesterday) has a preview of Jason Snell and Myke Hurley’s upcoming Designed in California podcast. No, not the “Road to the…

In the modern West, when a company wants to innovate, it summons a workshop. Sticky notes appear. Someone draws a Venn diagram. A facilitator, paid handsomely, asks everyone how they might "ideate"…

I was watching Byte Review’s recent video on getting the most out of your iPad, which got me to dig out my 2020 iPad Pro 12.9”. It’s been awhile since I’ve used this device, and honestly I never did…

Check out my updated office and desk setup for 2023. This week I had the opportunity to write about my desk setup on Club MacStories weekly newsletter so I'm also sharing it here in case you are…

DiskImageMounter.app silently fails to mount Linux ISOs in macOS and hdiutil attach linux.iso returns "attach failed - Resource temporarily unavailable". However, the built-in tar (bsdtar…

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Noticing a trend is easy and almost worthless. Predicting which one reshapes a market, and acting early, is where innovation pays.

Octopus Energy has launched Charge Pack, a new service designed to optimise home batteries for customers on Intelligent Octopus Go. The announcement has immediately drawn comparisons with Axle…

For the first time since I’ve been a full-time Linux user (25+ years), my machine is hitting some sort of bug –either software or hardware– that randomly makes the PC fans stop…

I’ve just released beorg 3.39.3. At first glance this might look like a very small update — a point release to a point release — but I’m hoping it will have a bigger impact than the version number…

I’m using 1Password to store my SSH keys - recently i noticed that the git sign process started to fail ❯ git commit -m "very important change" fatal: cannot exec…

When I visited Kigali for 2 weeks in 2022, I observed a labour-capital ladder: At the bottom, the poorest workers could earn a living by carrying fuel to and fro on foot. Next, people with bicycles…

Mike Isaac and David Yaffe-Bellany, reporting for The New York Times: Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction markets where users can bet on outcomes as varied as the Super Bowl and the length of the State…

“Saw these solar panels on the roof of a church in Missoula” - https://bsky.app/profile/volts.wtf/post/3moxvi5e3j22o

Managing your day is an important detail to life. Beyond that the week, months, and years all start to add up as well. Having the right calendar app is crucial!

As mentioned in Podnews today, there have been a few stories about whether podcasts on Netflix are actually doing the business for the streamer. This is a subject that I’m very interested in,…

Signals are the new black I had the pleasure of attending my first LSSO – Raindance Conference a few weeks ago where at least a half dozen times (I honestly lost count) presenters talked about…

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple PodcastsWhat makes an event truly unforgettable — and what can product teams learn from it? In this episode, Teresa sits down with Petra Wille to…

The Mac has no universal 'scroll to top' button, and laptops dropped the Home/End keys. Here are the keyboard shortcuts that actually exist — and the tiny utility I built when I got tired of them.

awwfulsounds:someone’s mp3 player collection in 2007(x)

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Yesterday, I wrote about how I’m fed up having AI everywhere. That’s also the case in work’s email. We use Gmail for work 🤯. Here’s a screenshot of one email thread: Gmail UI…

Auch dieses Jahr poste ich wieder einige Angebote, die ihr während Amazons Sommerschlussverkauf schießen könnt. Denkt bitte daran, am meisten spart, wer gar nichts kauft! Trotzdem gibt es jede Menge…

I have no hot take, but I did post this last year: Another Valve hardware announcement: the Steam Machine is back. I am immediately and predictably on board for it. -- me, November 2025 So I owe you…

With the price of the Steam Machine now known to the world (ouch!), I can’t help but feel sad about the inevitable price of the Steam Frame which I was really looking forward to. However, it does put…

For some reason my family has phenomenally crappy luck with Macbooks. Our second one in three years just died, right as my wife was needing to put together some slides with it. The thing is…

I went along and ate some prawns.