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Castro is back, baby
Dustin Bluck writing for the Castro blog: State of the App: Year 1
Private and popular feeds update have seen
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The mythical iOS 18.4
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features
It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri.
These three Siri features are AI uses that
Quick Reviews 1.0.5: the quality of life update
An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first
My toxic tech trait
99% of the time I want my software to be as fast as humanly possible. I want UI elements that respond quickly, and I want keyboard shortcuts to do as much as possible.
But 1% of the time, for whatever reason, I just like when a computer takes a long time to do something. Do
New weekend, new video recommendations
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Netflix accidentally gave us something nice
Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake
Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was too good to be true. And now the streaming giant has confirmed that’s exactly
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+ People Change (members post)
Too often I see people suggest that others are a static combination of beliefs. I stongly believe that people can, and do change.
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New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought
Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use?
A commonly-cited claim is that powering an individual ChatGPT query requires around 3 watt-hours of electricity, or 10 times as much as a Google search.
However…
We find that typical ChatGPT queries using GPT-4o likely consume roughly 0.
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Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac
Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac
[The Mac is] satisfying in the conventional way, in that it meets needs without drama or acrobatics. It works in the sense that it directs its resources firmly in the direction of service, rather than theatre. It’s
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It’s time to engage
Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web
To get the web we had at its peak, platforms and publishers had to align around mutually beneficial incentives. They did it before, and they can do it again. It would nice to see some progress here before the web breaks any further
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Development is going through a real change
Thomas Ricouard: Is Software Engineering Over as We Know It?
Writing code has always been a means to an end,
noclip is my favorite website find of 2025 so far
noclip is quite the find, and I've lost more time than I'd like to admit in
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Apple jumps in the hot tub
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones Due to DMA
The bottom line for parents, though, is that the “Apple-approved” messaging around the porn app on iPhone omits the fact that Apple is legally required to approve the app due to the DMA policy,
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Grammarly still bests Writing Tools
Adam Engst: Why Grammarly Beats Apple’s Writing Tools for Serious Writers
Say I want to proofread this paragraph while writing in Lex, which is running in Arc. To invoke Writing Tools, I must select the paragraph, Control-click, and choose Writing Tools > Proofread from the contextual menu. Then, Writing Tools proofreads my text
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El Salvador gives up on Bitcoin
The Tico Times: El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment
Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans, its modern city was never built, and now it will cease to be legal tender in El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt it in 2021: a complete failed economic bet by
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That’s not for me, but I love that the open web makes it possible
Federico Viticci for MacStories: The Many Purposes of Timeline Apps for the Open Web
But: the beauty of the open web and the approach embraced by Tapestry and Reeder is that there are plenty of potential use cases to satisfy everyone. Crucially, this includes people who are not like me. There is no one-size-
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I'm not crazy about liking Android TV, here's why (members post)
People think I'm joking or something when I say that Android TV is better than you'd think, and that tvOS could learn some things from it. Today's post is a video walk through of Android TV which tries to illustrate why it's compelling to me.