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Micro app 17: Next Up
This micro app is properly micro. It's literally just a Mac app that runs in the background that
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+ Three things watching The Crow made me think about art and artists
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Google suspended Railway's account, taking down their entire platform for hours
From the Railway blog: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 - GCP Account Suspension
At 22:20 UTC on May 19, Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As this was a platform-wide action, there was
Quinn Nelson on the MacBook Neo
Here's a quote from Quinn Nelson's latest video about the MacBook Neo:
The Neo is dominating in its segment because of price, and surrendering that advantage to protect margin would forfeit this entire strategy. Cracking the low end of the market is just the cost of doing business. If they want
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I said I'd destroy humanity and take their jobs, and I wonder why they don't like me
Ben Thompson: Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the Problem
The point of starting with the misinformation point, however, is not to legislate it: there are plenty of folks doing just that, on both sides. Rather, it’s to note that (1) misinformation takes root in the minds of people who are receptive to
The best way to publish to Ghost from Obsidian
Today I'm excited to announce Ghosty Posty, which is the best way to publish your Obsidian notes to
Quick Reads is officially in the Obsidian marketplace
I'm happy to say that after a lengthy review process, the Quick Reads plugin is available on the
Chapterize 1.5: Multi-document editing is here!
A new version of Chapterize is out now that includes multi-document editing across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This is
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The MacBook Neo shows why the Apple fan obsession with benchmarks for 5+ years has been…weird
Oliver Haslam: MacBook Neo review, two months later: Almost a MacBook Pro beater
The MacBook Neo is a marvel. The fact that Apple was able to find a way to sell this thing for less than $600 makes it a laptop that's impossible not to recommend. It replaces the MacBook Air as the
AI plans are expensive. They’re also wildly unprofitable.
Every few months, it seems Anthropic does something to restrict how you can use their subscription plans, either their $20, $100, or $200 plans, and it gets people upset. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that people should be happy when they lose functionality from something they’re paying for. However,
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+ The Vision Pro's uphill battle
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Is the war on RCS actually an argument that texting Android users *should* suck?
Wesley Hilliard is a cool guy who I often agree with, but his latest for AppleInsider is begging for a response: RCS & encryption haven't fixed the green bubble problem
In Messages on iPhone, you can now use SMS, RCS, end-to-end encrypted RCS, and iMessage. Sure, sending media to Android is
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How many MacBook Neo buyers would have bought an Air before?
Tim Culpan: Apple Doubles MacBook Neo Production, Orders Fresh Batch of Chips
As a result, it’s now asking suppliers to prepare capacity for 10 million units of the debut version of the Neo, up from an initial estimate of 5 million to 6 million, my sources tell me. Delivery times for the laptop have
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The midification of smartphone cameras
This feels like the sort of post that can get some people to go, "well actually…", but screw it, I think there's something here. As Marques points out, in good light, the iPhone 11 and iPhone 17 are very hard to tell apart. But once you introduce more challenging lighting (night,
Apple uses WebP images in the App Store
I was checking out the App Store page for the new iRacing Connect App for the Vision Pro on the web, and I noticed that one of their first promo images was a setup screen with blatant display bugs in it (connect to my computer running on the sa…what???).
I saved the image to
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Encrypted RCS is going wide, starting today
John Voorhees: iOS 26.5 Adds RCS Encryption in Beta Starting Today
Apple announced that beginning today, users on iOS 26.5 will be able to send encrypted RCS messages to Google Messages users who are on the latest version of that app. Apple says that means a message that is intercepted in transit is
Community mods are giving us the remasters companies can't deliver
A few years ago, a passion project from a few Zelda fans gave us a decompilation of The Legend of
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Micro app 17: The Cooldown
One of the cool things about the agentic coding era is how quick it is to iterate on an idea
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