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Blender for the iPad is on hold (it was also keyboard+mouse first, not touch first)
In a GitHub comment back in January, Blender's Dalai Felinto gave this update on the Blender for iPad project:
FYI I just updated the task description to mention that this project is on hold.
[…] we are putting this project on hold for now. The team will instead focus on the Android tablets first
Soon, everything will be an iPad
Over the weekend, my Apple will kill iPadOS article caused some feelings, to say the least. The post title was meant to catch eyes, and it did, but I also think that it brought people into the article with the wrong energy. They were ready to fight, and read my (admittedly hastily written) post ready
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Block is making more profit than ever, so they're firing 40% of their employees
Jack Dorsey on Twitter: we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.
Apparently also
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Drive to Survive is coming to Apple TV tonight
Chance Miller: New ‘F1: Drive to Survive’ season is coming to Apple TV
Ahead of the first F1 Grand Prix next week, Apple has announced a new partnership with Netflix in the US. Through this deal, Apple will make the entire new season (season eight) of Formula 1: Drive to Survive available on Apple TV.
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The whole draw of the Mac is that it can do whatever you want it to do
Wesley Hilliard has a new post out which is a bit of a retort to my opinion on touch Macs and iPads: Apple could enter its toaster-fridge era with touchscreen MacBooks
It's not that I think it's a bad idea, it's just an odd one. macOS was not
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In blind test, gamers think DLSS looks better than native rendering
Hassam Nasir: Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD's FSR and even native rendering (emphasis mine)
German outlet ComputerBase has conducted a blind test comparing the image quality of six games across different rendering techniques. The main showdown was between Nvidia's latest DLSS 4.5 and AMD&
Seeing growth on YouTube
I love Rory Alexander's YouYube channel. He streams Gran Turismo for a living and posts a video or two per week that I always enjoy. On my YouTube home feed today I saw this video from 3 years ago:
What I find striking about it is how much different it is from his
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Shocker: Apple will update macOS UI to make touch a good experience 😉
Juli Clover reporting on Mark Gurman’s latest report: Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Coming in 2026 With Dynamic Island and Redesigned macOS Controls
Apple is updating macOS to make it more touch friendly. Users will be able to tap or click on-screen elements, and controls will change based on input method. If a user
A Better Computer, the Podcast
Today I'm doing something a bit spontaneous, I'm launching a podcast! It's called A
Quick Notes now records in the background
Quick Notes has a new update out now with a few nice improvements.
Background recording
Have you ever had your
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Why many of us have no patience for liquid glass
Jason Snell: Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to
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Financially secure Sony shuts down a great game studio they acquired, seemingly just to ruin
Brendon Bigley: Bluepoint Games Shuttered by PlayStation for Some Unfathomable Reason
Are we sincerely supposed to believe that in a world where the entire industry is bending over backward to remake and remaster every game under the sun, the studio that’s arguably the best at it can’t find a path to profitability?
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Hosting my own analytics
I've used Plausible for my analytics since 2021, and I've been quite happy with it. It just works, it's pretty good from a privacy angle, and it gives me a nice UI for showing essential metrics without being overwhelming. I'm currently paying $12/month for it, which
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Apple will kill iPadOS
Before you get too spicy about this post, read this one next.
How's this for a hot take to start the weekend: I think Apple is going to discontinue iPadOS. I know, I know, it's a big swing, but put the pitchforks away and hear me out. iPadOS, as it exists
Another new model coming to Quick Subtitles
There will be a Quick Subtitles update out soon that adds OpenAI's Whisper model to the app as
That thing "nobody" was asking for
I watch the occasional Kyle Hill video, and his latest about data centers in space being a bad idea got
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Why I don't offload my writing to AI
Claudio Nastruzzi: Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
When an author uses AI for "polishing" a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The AI identifies high-entropy clusters – the precise points where unique insights and "blood" reside – and systematically replaces them
ChapterPod and Quick Subtitles now support WebVTT (.vtt)
I live in worlds where .SRT is the g0-to subtitles format, but other people have different needs. There is
