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Ollama's New App
Ollama's New App:
Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
This is awesome! Ollama is the go-to source for getting and using open source, local LLMs. Previously, there was a terminal interface for chatting with these models and apps like ChatWise could tap into those local models installed
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5,090 days
Nick Heer: The Tim Cook Era Is Fully Cemented
On 16 September 1997, Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple. 5,090 days later, he handed the reins to Tim Cook, weeks before he died.
5,090 days after 24 August 2011 is today. The Cook era is now as long as the Jobs renaissance
Castro for Android is in the works
I was over here minding my own business, asking people how many of their home screen apps were available on
Network tokens, the payment tech you've never heard of
I very rarely talk about payments on this blog, but every once in a while I get to talk about something I think might be interesting: network tokens!
Who has my card number?
Many years ago, merchants selling products online and in person were handling your card details directly. That meant that if they didn&
Quick Reviews 2.0 is out now
I'm happy to announce Quick Reviews 2.0 is out now for the iPhone and iPad. Here'
Jeans? Genes. Wait, what?
If you're online at all, you've probably at least heard of the American Eagle controversy around
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More Avatar? Bring it on.
Listen, I know there's a loud group of people who think the Avatar movies are dumb spectacles, but I think they're genuinely great films that tell touching, human stories that just hit different than most other films you'll see. I can't wait to see this new one
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The Mac-ification of iPadOS
Harry McCracken writing for Fast Company: iPadOS 26 Is Way More Mac-Like. Where Does That Lead?
However, as someone who’s used an iPad as my main computer for almost 14 years, I can’t join the chorus of unbridled enthusiasm for iPadOS 26’s embrace of Mac conventions such as floating, overlapping windows
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Insanity is trying the same thing over again expecting a different result
Megan Brenan writing for Gallup: Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low
Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped to 37%, the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of his
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Switch 2 vs Steam Deck OLED
I thought this video from Digital Foundry was a really good comparison of the Nintendo Switch 2 and Valve Steam Deck OLED.
iOS and Android are heading in completely opposite design directions
I'll just say it: liquid glass is a quintessential example of form over function. There are some UI changes as well to the OS 26 platforms, but the core visual design is clearly optimized for "it looks cool most of the time" rather than how practical it is to use.
Meanwhile,
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📘 I recommend Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Finally, another book review!
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"Not everyone can become a great developer, but a great developer can come from anywhere"
As someone who works in a professional software development environment every day, and who has brought those practices into my
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Another Predator movie is coming this fall and I'm psyched
I just watched the excellent Predator: Killer of Killers over the weekend and said "Dan Tractenberg is low key one of the best directors working today." Little did I know, Dan had another Predator film in the works for this year. This appears to be more of a direct sequel to the also-
Mario Kart 64 has been ported to PC and Linux (and Mac eventually)
The great minds behind the Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Star Fox 64 are back at it with a native port of Mario Kart 64. I love these projects, and really adore being able to play games from my youth on modern hardware and at insane resolutions and frame rates.
The original
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Another good study with questionable reporting on LLMs
Siôn Geschwindt writing for The Next Web: ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
They prompted each model with user profiles that differed only by gender but included the same education, experience, and job role. Then they asked the models to suggest a target salary for an upcoming negotiation.
In one example,
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Vibe coding away the production database like it’s…2017?
This is a wild story about a junior developer who destroyed his company’s production database with vibe coding:
Then from my understanding that the tests add fake data, and clear existing data between test runs which basically cleared all the data from the production database. Honestly i had no idea what i did and
