Comfort Zone is coming back this month 🔗
Comfort Zone, the podcast I do with Chris and Niléane is coming back later this month! We've had a little time off, which actually was nice, maybe we [...]
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Chill racist games hosted by the US government 🔗
Have you ever wanted to play a game of Snake where instead of eating fruit, you took control of a white guy arresting and reporting brown people? Well [...]
The best iPhone lineup ever 🔗
Casey Liss on this week's ATP: To my memory […], this is the best iPhone lineup I think they've ever had. I completely agree with this. The Pro phones [...]
180 merges in 135 days 🔗
I officially launched Quick Reads 135 days ago, and to say I've been working hard on it since is an understatement. Obviously, PRs aren't a perfect me [...]
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 2026 Twitter post from content creator ‘Adio’. The [...]
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 iPhon [...]
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 U [...]
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 A [...]
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 cat [...]
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 [...]
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 Ha [...]
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 o [...]
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 [...]
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 see. I'm the sort of guy who likes learning about [...]