The MacBook Neo is a great second computer 🔗
Before I go further let me just be clear. If the MacBook Neo is the Mac you can afford then it's a nice computer. You can build apps, edit video, and [...]
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Xbox embraces exclusives again (and why Nintendo may have played the long game brilliantly) 🔗
Joe Skrebels: XBOX Games Showcase 2026 Recap: The Return of Exclusives, World Premieres, and Anniversary Hardware As part of our focus on the return o [...]
US government forces Anthropic to kill Fable and Mythos (for now) 🔗
Anthropic: Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 The US government, citing national security authorities, [...]
Google's new icons are good, actually 🔗
Devin Coldewey: Google's new logos are bad Google really whiffed with the new logos for its “reimagination” of G Suite as Google Workspace, replacing [...]
+ Underwater 🔗
If I'm being honest, I have been completely underwater for the past few weeks. Work is always busy, but recently it has ramped up to an entirely new l [...]
OS 27's best small update 🔗
One of the big problems with the glass redesign in OS 26 was that it was really optimized to look good when specific content was underneath it. This f [...]
Apple's OS blender 🔗
As someone who has been covering this ecosystem for nearly twenty years, the biggest shift this year, and my single biggest takeaway from the keynote, [...]
Touch Macs are already here 🔗
Apple's WWDC kicked off yesterday, and there is one update in particular that struck me, the Sidecar feature now lets you directly manipulate macOS wi [...]
The first "Quick" app wasn't Quick Reviews 🔗
I'd actually forgotten about this, but the first thing I ever made that was in my "Quick" collection wasn't actually Quick Reviews, it was QuickPin! A [...]
Gamers make me embarrassed to be a gamer 🔗
A new God of War game was announced recently, God of War: Laufey, which doesn't star series lead Kratos, it stars his dead wife Laufey, who passed awa [...]
Loupe 🔗
Loupe is a simple new app for iOS that shows how many things native apps can see about you and your device, lots of which is available without request [...]
Best-o-Masto comes to the web 🔗
I love Best-o-Masto, my iPhone app for browsing the most popular posts in your feed, but I'm not always on my phone. That's why today I'm happy to ann [...]
Welcome to the new Quick Tier List! 🔗
For the last few months, I've been running Quick Tier List, which is a very simple but I thought nice to use tier list website. We've used it quite a [...]
The best CleanShot keyboard shortcuts that will change your life or whatever 🔗
I wish there was a counter running that told me how many screenshots and screen recordings I've taken over the years, but I'm into the tens of thousan [...]
The tech behind NBA broadcasts 🔗
As someone who did most of the jobs Marques talked about here for college basketball (and football and vollyball) years ago, this video really resonat [...]