Reading List

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

How to Identify Your Apple Keyboard Layout by Country or Region

This support page is a fascinating footnote regarding the recent changes Apple has made to their U.S. key cap labels.

Jony Ive on Redesigning the Christie’s Rostrum

Who do you turn to when you’re Christie’s and you want to commission the finest rostrum the world has ever seen? Who else but Jony Ive and LoveFrom. I mean, I’d love to snark about this, but goddamnit, that’s a lovely piece of furniture.

The Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator

John Gruber (Mastodon): One might presume that the dedicated indicator lights are significantly more secure than the rendered-on-display indicators. I myself made this presumption in the initial version of my MacBook Neo review last week. This presumption is, I believe, wrong. Later last week Apple published, and I linked to, a small update in their […]

Apple Exclaves

Random Augustine (2025, Hacker News, John Gruber): The kernel shared in common between iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS — named XNU — is based on a microkernel called Mach. However, the way XNU has been implemented places all system functions within the same privileged scope and it effectively operates as a monolithic kernel. The […]

Grief and the AI Split

John Gruber: But where I think Amodei’s remarks, quoted above, are facile is that it hasn’t played out as simply that lines of code that would have been written by human programmers are now generated by AI models. That’s part of it, for sure. But what’s revolutionary — a topic I’ve been posting about twice already today — is […]