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Our computers are just too good
Andy Nicolaides: I’m not a Pro, and that’s okay.
I started to realise recently, but was fully reconciled in my mind after using the MacBook Neo for a few days. The realisation is that, when it comes to my personal devices at least, I’m not a pro and I don’t need
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Quick 🤫 update
An update on my biggest project yet. I swear it's almost ready!
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What if games could be "pretty successful" and not out the developer out of business?
I really loved this quote from John Linneman on a recent Digital Foundry podcast:
There was a time when they could produce games in a moderately sustainable fashion, it seems, and they didn't need to be multi-million sellers. And in fact, the big multi-million sellers could help support this wide range
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No vibe coded visionOS bump
This post on Reddit caught my attention:
Been curious about the state of the visionOS ecosystem so I pulled the
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Will iPadOS 27 bring back split view?
Zac Kew-Denniss: iPadOS 26 multitasking is so bad that I’ve replaced my iPad with an Android tablet
The biggest mistake Apple made in iPadOS 26 was making all of these changes in the iPad’s default mode. I’m the go-to tech support for a large group of older family members and
Where did the MP3s come from?
Nick Vukotic (random person, I don’t vouch for them) on Threads
I love the decade where every major electronics manufacturer was selling mp3 players but no one was asking where the mp3s were coming from
I would love to know what percentage of the music on MP3 players back in the early 2000s was
Chrome, Safari, and battery myths
On this week's Waveform podcast, Marques Brownlee and crew were talking about browsers and a common topic came up:
Safari is only good for one thing, which is battery life.
And:
Commonly accepted facts.
Accepted by who? Lunatics?
I would say ask any browser enthusiast.
And:
I'm on an Apple Silicon
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The "heads I win, tails you lose" mentality
Antonio G. Di Benedetto for The Verge: I tested three Windows laptops in the MacBook Neo’s price range — there’s no contest
Each has an eight-core processor (versus six on the Neo), 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and between 256GB and 1TB of storage — the slowest of which is twice the speed
micro-apps
Micro app 14: Podcast Transcript Fixer
Today I'm sharing a pretty simple micro-app: a Claude skill that you can use in the desktop
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Chrome gets side tabs
David Pierce: Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them
The good news here is, you don’t have to take my word for it. Switching browsers is hard, and maybe you don’t want to do it just for vertical tabs. But update Chrome, right-click the tab bar, and just see
Samsung is discontinuing it's messaging app…helping iPhone users get encrypted RCS
Last month, I wrote about how Apple is working on adding support for encrypted RCS messages between Apple Messages on iOS and Google Messages on Android. At the time, I said I hoped Apple would make this work with Samsung's messaging app as well so that basically all Americans could get the benefits
Video gaming prices continue to explode
Just 6 months ago, Lenovo launched their Legion Go 2 handheld PC game console. It came in 2 versions, each with a different chip (AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme) powering the device. They came in at the profoundly premium price points of $1,099 and $1,349.
Now, those are profoundly high price points
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Nintendo's digital games will be cheaper than physical
Nintendo: About Nintendo Switch 2 Game Pricing
Beginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi™ and the Mysterious
That’s jus how media discussions go
jess77x in a Reddit post about Pluribus:
The discourse around this show is so weird. It's either a masterpiece or a total slog. And everyone is just talking past each other and calling people illiterate/TikTok brained for disliking it or pretentious shills for liking it. And it's a shame because
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OpenAI against the world
Ben Thompson: Apple’s 50 Years of Integration
It’s also worth noting that OpenAI has, in its relatively short life, managed to frame itself as a competitor to basically everyone in tech, from Google to Meta to Microsoft, only to find itself forced to pivot in the face of Anthropic and its focused approach
