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+ Comfortable and uncomfortable truths
I understand being mad, I understand not tolerating it, but I think there's an uncomfortable truth, representing the world being a messy place where few things are completely black and white.
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Walmart is the last major US company to add Tap to Pay
Walmart: More Ways to Pay: Tap to Pay Is Coming to Walmart and Sam’s Club
beginning Aug. 24, we
Apple's obviously going to make a second folding phone
I've been using Samsung's new Galaxy Fold8 for the last week (More Birchtree members can read
Quick Subtitles 3
Quick Subtitles 3 is out now for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. While this is not the biggest update ever, there&
Subscriber rot
I joined Mastodon way back in 2016, but I dropped off and didn't come back until late 2022.
What is a perversion to writing?
Simon Wilson has the best description of LLMs that I’ve seen so far. He called them a calculator for
I for one, welcome our nanny state
There is a phrase that's come up more in the tech punditry recently: nanny state. This comes up
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iPhone pre-orders might be tighter than normal this year
Ming-Chi Kuo: A recent media report claims that tight DRAM suppl...
My industry checks suggest that Apple has indeed
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How cooked is Gemini?
Max Kan: Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking
For all intents and purposes, we believe DeepMind is no longer
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+ Galaxy Z Fold8 Impressions
Samsung's new foldable is an early look at what Apple will be announcing next month.
Quick Reviews 3 is out now!
Quick Reviews 3 is out now and is an update about giving the people what they've wanted.
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Chapterize 2.1: iCloud sync, enhance audio, and more
Chapterize 2.1 is out today, and I know 2.0 just came out, but there are a couple things
Quick Reads 1.0.4 is a beefy iPad update
Quick Reads for iPhone and iPad 1.0.4 is rolling out on the App Store now, and I didn&
Quick Reads has been getting better all summer
I've been shipping a steady stream of updates to Quick Reads over the past couple months, and while
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Native app propaganda is working
No One's Happy: Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
Most native apps collect far more data than
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Not all "vibe coding" is created equal
Sean Goedecke: LLMs reward expertise
the idea here — that domain knowledge makes you better at using LLMs — is something I’
I was on Hacker News yesterday and didn't even notice
I don't obsessively check the metrics on this blog, but I do every now and again just to
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Linus Torvalds lays into anti-AI developers
Linus Torvalds (the creator or Linux) was spitting fire in a post to the Linux kernel mailing list just a
