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Third Republican US President in a row invades a sovereign nation without good reason (it's oil)
Anatoly Kurmanaev and Tyler Pager with live updates for The New York Times: Explosions Are Reported in Venezuela’s Capital
Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more)
Quick Subtitles has yet another update out now, which brings a few new features to the mix.
UI tweaks
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Apple’s 2025 report card - Wearables
This is the fifth and final in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines.
The wild year of code
I was just on GitHub and saw the famous contribution visualization, and this really put into perspective how much more of a developer I was this year. Here's the last 4 years of contributions:
33 contributions in 2022, a bit more in 2023 and 2024, but y'all, 2025 was wild. Just
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Clean energy had a baller 2025
Kathryn Krawczyk from Canary Media: Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar’s monumental rise is the main reason for the shift: The source more than doubled its share of global electricity production from 2021 to 2025. And while coal still remains the world’s largest source of electricity, it’s
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Let stories end
Amanda Hess for The New York Times in 2018: The End of Endings
Didn’t endings used to mean something? They imbued everything that came before them with significance, and then they gave us the space to reflect on it all. More than that: They made us feel alive. The story ended, but we did
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Apple’s 2025 report card - Vision Pro
This is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines. You can
471 movies in 4 years (and my fav 2025 films)
I'm a big fan of movies, they're my favorite medium for storytelling, and it was sometime
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Apple’s 2025 report card - Mac
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines. You can
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Apple’s 2025 report card - iPad
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines. You can
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Apple’s 2025 report card - iPhone
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines (iPhone, iPad,
How to enable ProMotion 120Hz mode in Safari (Mac, iPhone, and iPad)
Today I learned something amazing: Safari supports higher than 60Hz refresh. It's the only mainstream web browser that doesn't, and I have never understood why, but apparently as of the end of 2025 in Safari version 26.3 (and maybe earlier) you can enable it. Here's how to do
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What if we ended the "podcast"?
Andru Marino writing for The Verge: It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’
In 2026, instead of trying to define what a podcast is, I think we need to stop using the word altogether. “Podcast” is becoming an outdated or even a potentially cringe internet relic, similar to how the phrase “web series”
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+ The sequel trilogy…
In which I calmly explain what I think caused all of the problems with the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
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LLMs can be poisoned
From the Anthropic blog: A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
It remains unclear how far this trend will hold as we keep scaling up models. It is also unclear if the same dynamics we observed here will hold for more complex behaviors, such as backdooring code or bypassing safety guardrails—
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When your Apple ID gets banned…
Last Friday, Paris Buttfield-Addison posted 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple, which kind of blew up.
A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account,
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Ghostty goes non-profit
Mitchell Hashimoto: Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
I believe infrastructure of this kind should be stewarded by a mission-driven, non-commercial entity that prioritizes public benefit over private profit. That structure increases trust, encourages adoption, and creates the conditions for Ghostty to grow into a widely used and impactful piece of open-source infrastructure.
