180 merges in 135 days
I officially launched Quick Reads 135 days ago, and to say I've been working hard on it since
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Arc Raiders has faded away while I wasn't looking
Jamie Hore: Are We Really Witnessing the "Downfall" of Arc Raiders?
That’s according to a 9 August
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NVIDIA is doing the iPhone thing
Ben Thompson: Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face
Nvidia right now continues to be like Apple in the early years of the iPhone: for years forecasting was easy and reliable, because the company’s revenue was a function of how many phones they could make and how many carriers they supported; we
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The tech Apple will use to make the crease (mostly?) go away in their folding iPhone
KIMGEON: Google, Oppo and Vivo to Adopt Dual UTG for Foldable Phones – Apple-led dual-UTG design doubles glass content per foldable device
The lower UTG supports the OLED panel from underneath. It disperses stress concentrated around the hinge when the foldable phone is opened and closed and reinforces the rigidity of the panel’s
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Designed in California
Myke Hurley: Designed in California is LIVE!
We have published two episodes today in the free feed, which are the first of a seven-part series about Apple’s Mac OS crisis in the ’90s, leading to the company acquiring NeXT and bringing Steve Jobs back.
I listened to the first episode today and it&
Silo…in your browser
This site is insane.
Updates to Quick Reads, Reviews, and Subtitles for iOS
It looks like AppReview is clearing the decks for next week's wave of OS 27 updates. Here's what's new from my apps today.
Quick Reads
This update catches the app up with pretty much everything the web app got over the summer.
First off, you can now add notes
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Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are here
Anthropic: Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards.
I think a lot of us believed Fable 5 was the same as Mythos, just with different safeguards, but I don't believe Anthropic
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1Password with an unbelievable own goal
Andrew Lilley Brinker: 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
Omarchy is a Linux distribution created and controlled by David Heinemeier Hansson, usually known as DHH. DHH is the founder and CTO of 37signals (formerly Basecamp) and creator of Ruby on Rails.
In the last year DHH has also called for the ethnic cleansing of
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You didn't write that, you're just a meat proxy
sf-isms: Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
Love this. I mean, I hate this and it annoys me every time someone forwards me some text that
How my Mac mini turned into infrastructure for Quick Reads
On today's podcast, I discussed the new Mac minis and why I want one, but won't be buying one, as well as how I'm using my Mac mini to do something on Quick Reads that would have cost me potentially tons of money to do other ways. I'
Jason Snell's productivity picks
Jason Snell was featured on the Mac App Store today sharing a few app picks, which was very cool to
Introducing Birchfeed, the best RSS app that works in your favorite RSS app already
I've joked here and there that I should make an RSS app. I genuinely didn't really
Face computers just aren't going to be a thing, right?
Maybe I'll regret writing this one day, but it just kind of seems like face computers aren't something that are really going to happen, right? This blog is 16 years old, and for almost all 16 years there have been stories about how VR is "about to take off"
The unbearable weight of Metal Gear Solid 4's cutscenes
I posted this weekend about how cutscene heavy Metal Gear Solid 4 is, and a few people went, "yup,
Fancy new crazy new mockup generators
There are a few interesting tools for making mockups and videos that have come across my radar recently. The first is mckp.live, which is from the fine folks at ls.graphics which I use for a lot of mock ups that I do. It's got a video export option as well as
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Panic rocks
Ian Carlos Campbell: Panic is refunding tariff fees paid by Playdate owners
Panic, software publisher and creator of the Playdate, is refunding customers for any US tariff fees they paid to purchase its console, Game Developer reports. The Trump administration's tariff regime was confirmed to be illegal following a Supreme Court decision in
Trashcan
Trashcan is a fun little site.
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