🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Claude Can Now Take Control of Your Mac
The Claude Mac client itself remains a lazy Electron clunker. If Claude Code is so good I don’t get why they don’t prove it by using it to make an even halfway decent native Mac app.
I like reading release notes from developers who take the time to document changes, and I also like reading “Bug fixes and performance improvements” over and over and over again from developers who do not.
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🔗 Too complicated for people to understand.
Our first job is to do work that matters for people who care. It helps to follow that up with the scaffolding needed to cause cultural change, so the idea spreads.
But don’t dumb it down to reach people who don’t want to be reached in the first place.
🔗 Mike Johnson: Trust us, this war totally had to happen.
Trust you Mike? Are you serious?
🔗 Your AI Remembers Everything. You Own None of It. – Regionally Famous
Your AI Remembers Everything. You Own None of It.
It’s worse than that … it might remember everything for them … but have you noticed that it never seems to remember everything for you❓
I get what he’s trying to do … but we seem to be a long way from this working. I think we also are missing a couple or more.
Joke … Rhetorical … Sarcasm … Irony … all spring to mind as concepts that too many people miss as they attempt to ‘finish the internet’.
🔗 Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
… Joan - not just about introspection.
🔗 Adobe Pays Early Termination Fee, or ‘Settlement’, in U.S. Lawsuit Over Hidden Fees.
I am about to attempt to extract myself from one of Adobe’s products. I wasn’t looking forward to it before I read this. Now?
🔗 Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L’œil Tableaux
Had to share just one of them …
Forever amazed how someone can pick up something like an empty ‘graph book’ and turn it into stunning art.
🔗 Nostalgia and Decay Meet Theatricality in Andrew Moore’s Dramatic Photos
Eclipsed by neglect. Beautiful in their fading obscurity.
Bernie and Elton came to mind - though they weren’t talking buildings ….
It’s sad, so sad, it’s a sad, sad situation
And it’s getting more and more absurd
🔗 Ranked: Americans' Favorite News Sites
Key Takeaways
- BBC News has the highest approval rating among Americans at 51%.
- No other news website reaches 50% positive opinion among respondents.
- Yahoo News (48%) ranks second and is the top U.S.-based brand
My key takeaway is actually not called out …
ESPN (at 43%) is the third.
That explains so much about America
🔗 Daring Fireball: PC Makers Are Not Ready for the MacBook Neo
This idea that because it’s “an iPhone chip” the Neo is not capable of, say, editing 4K video is utterly ignorant. You know what computers are fully capable of editing 4K video? iPhones.
🔗 Steve Blank - Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true.
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The bottleneck is no longer engineering. It’s moving up the stack to judgment, customer insight for desired outcomes and distribution.
Both true - and in the apps we are building there is heavy reliance on AI to do the ‘heavy’ lifting - I mean - we humans aren’t designed to lift heavy things (speaking from personal experience some 30 years ago) - BUT we are awfully good at being human - which our apps definitely lean into.
And then there is this …
.. I mean these two screens are hardly doing the same job are they❗️❓
… and it isn’t AI killing the dashboard - it’s designs like this that are killing the dashboard.
🔗 Apple’s real intelligence? Winning the waiting game | The Macalope
We’ve gone from “AI does everything so we can now lay off all our staff!” to “We have to lay off all our staff because AI is sucking all our resources.” It’s almost as if AI is being as an excuse for layoffs.
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Ha-ha! That would be silly! Because, in reality, we know that there really is no problem that cannot be solved by laying off vast swaths of the people who have devoted their careers to you. It’s just math.
🔗 The Last Quiet Thing | Terry Godier
Absolutely wonderful opening … superb and engaging layout .. do kept going .. and have to say the end was just as great … but there is a middle bit … quite a large middle bit - that is stuff I’ve read before .. we all (should) know .. that I found uninteresting and repetitive and (should ❓) be deleted.
But that shouldn’t stop you getting his RSS app which is great.
🔗 Reuters tries to out Banksy: … | Alan Jacobs
.. what Alan said.
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
💬 Ralph Waldo Emerson