Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Five Decades of Thinking Different

Computer History Museum (MacRumors): Join us for a special CHM Live evening celebrating Apple’s first half-century, featuring speakers from across the eras of Apple history, including former Apple CEO John Sculley, Senior Employee Chris Espinosa, former Senior Vice President (SVP) of Hardware Engineering Jon Rubinstein (by video), and former Chief Software Technology Officer and SVP […]

Meta Acquires Moltbook

Amanda Silberling (Hacker News, Slashdot): Meta acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-like “social network” where AI agents using OpenClaw can communicate with one another. The news was first reported by Axios and later confirmed to TechCrunch. Moltbook is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, a Meta spokesperson told us. Moltbook creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr will join the […]

Apple’s 50th Anniversary

Tim Cook (tweet, MacRumors): Fifty years ago in a small garage, a big idea was born. Apple was founded on the simple notion that technology should be personal, and that belief — radical at the time — changed everything. […] At Apple, we’re more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday. But we couldn’t let […]

Ensembles 3

Drew McCormack (February): Had my Core Data sync framework, Ensembles, pretty much in maintenance mode. With Apple moving on to SwiftData, didn’t seem any point to modernizing the 15 year old ObjC codebase. But I had the thought to give Claude a shot at it, and in 2 days I’ve got a complete port: Swift […]

6K Display Comparison

Wade Tregaskis: Nobody else has even tried to make a bright 6k display – in fact, every non-Apple 6k display is outright dim by modern display standards – they’re barely brighter than the original 5k display in the 2015 iMac! […] For the price of one Apple Pro Display XDR you can get four Asus […]