Nilay Patel put out an excellent Decoder episode today. In it, he dove into the idea of “software brain”, which is something he’s been workshopping during the past several Vergecast episodes. It’s his attempt to explain why so many Silicon Valley folks are head over heels about AI, at the same time that most normal people hate it. The idea really resonates with me.
Yesterday, Claude Code disappeared from the $20/month subscription tier on Anthropic’s website. Well, for some people. Then it came back. As Simon Willison put it, it’s all very confusing.
Yesterday, Tim Cook announced his timeline for stepping down as Apple’s CEO . I felt like I should write something about this, but I wasn’t sure what. I fell back into thinking about Cook’s time by the numbers.
I live in a weird place. Happily, it’s often a good type of weird. Sadly, it’s also a place where, in general, motorists aren’t very concerned with things like “obeying laws” or “not hitting people”.
I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one.
Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations.
I wrote yesterday about some visual changes I’d noticed in Apple’s 26.4 series of OSs. Today I noticed that I’d missed a couple of real doozies, both related to the new mega-corners in macOS Tahoe.
Apple recently updated all their OSs to 26.4, and there were plenty of Liquid Glass updates. Most of them for the better! Here are some of the changes that stood out to me, as well as a bit more grumbling about Liquid Glass in general (sorry).