I encourage everyone to read or listen to Annie Jacobsen’s book “Nuclear War: A Scenario” - deeply researched, very accurate, incredibly sobering, and highly relevant.
www.audible.com/pd/Nuclear-W...
I feel much of the problems facing the US today are due to the policies that allow small numbers of people & families to become unimaginable wealthy.
In this instance, it is the Ellison family.
iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information without requiring special software or settings.
#cybersecurity
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
7 year old blog post continues to hold true.
www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2019/1/...
If you have website environments enabled in Safari in visionOS, you can check out this initial draft here:
www.toddheberlein.com/trench-cafe
Wrapping up the weekend Apple Vision Pro project. Still very much a work in progress, but it was fun to see the TIE fighters at full scale.
The video is just YouTube.
How come the news refer to a female under 18 (e.g., in the Epstein Files) as an “underaged woman” but you don’t refer to a male under 18 (e.g., this headline) as an “underaged man”?
I’ve been Roblox curious for years since they have the closest environment that could be considered a metaverse.
But being an adult male, I don’t want to be accosted by kids or accused of accosting kids, so I have stayed away.
Roblox needs a “safe for adults” option - no kids allowed.
I expected someone else to file the bug reports and for Apple to fix them. That didn't happen.
www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2026/2/...
It is sad chapter.
I subscribed to WaPo for years, but cancelled once it began cozying up to Trump and his policies. WaPo's slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" looked like hypocrisy.
I hope the good journalists who care can find an outlet for their reporting.
Sorry to hear about this. It is a tough week for journalism.
Let us know where you end up, if you start a newsletter, write another book, or something else, so we can follow your longer-form content.
Moon through the fog this morning.
I remember the excitement around the 1996 launch of original X Prize (later renamed the Ansari X Prize) and when it was won in 2004. Space tourism for the masses seemed right around the corner.
21 years later, it seems that dream has died.
arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
It is only a matter of time before we have a Boston Massacre type event.
I fear if/when that happens, Trump will use it as an excuse to declare martial law, maybe even cancel the 2026 elections, especially if the GOP are expected to lose the House or Senate.
Apple has a lot of services out right now. I wonder if your glitch is tied to that.
Wow, Apple has a lot of network service outages right now (6:56 pm PT). I don't think I've seen this much color on their system status page before.
Perhaps Luckey missed this from Bosworth:
“With the larger potential user base and the fastest growth rate today, we are shifting teams and resources almost exclusively to mobile to continue to accelerate adoption there.”
That doesn’t sound like they are keeping a robust team working on VR.
At WWDC this June, Apple should introduce their visionOS section with, "We are continuing to invest heavily in spatial computing, and we are inspired by the all the creative ways people are using our platforms."
I seem to recall in a forward or afterward of "The Kaiju Preservation Society", you mentioned switching to writing that book from the planned one to help you get through the dark times of COVID. As a reader/listener, I appreciated it for the same reason.
Maybe it's time for KPS 2.
"I lift things."
I think the focus until Vision Air ships is about building a solid foundation: build out the libraries; get more tools in the hands of creators; create a developer community; create content; find use cases.
Here is Ming-Chi Kuo's newsletter from last summer:
mingchikuo.craft.me/b4ueOLIjxf2wPG
Momentum for the Vision platform is building. The immersive basketball is a hit. The camera, tooling, and distribution platform for 3rd parties to create content is finally available. Apple is hosting mini-WWDCs focused on visionOS. Ming-Chi Kou's roadmap (with my annotations) still seem right
I remember pre-COVID, it seemed everyone returned from CES with a bad cold/flu.
Anyone know if frequency of virus spread at CES has decreased with increased awareness and prevention?
I often buy both audio and text-based versions of a book, and read and listen simultaneously, often with the audio set to 1.2x to 2.0x speed.
When I am on the move (doing dishes, driving), I drop audio back down to 1x.
I wish we had the convenience and vast libraries of audiobooks when I was a kid
That was fun! Thanks for sharing.
Even before Liquid Glass, Apple had been leading a decade-long effort to hide controls or any visual separation of view components (like one pane/view for a list and another pane/view for a details section) in order to let your “content shine through”.
I have not liked this trend.
Alex Lindsay announced on MacBreak Weekly that he is going to work for Apple's Developer Relations. He will be the Partnership Manager for the 3D ecosystem.
This is good news for those of us in the visionOS & RealityKit space but sad news for those of us who watch/listen to MacBreak Weekly.
On this day in history: Hitler released from prison for conspiracy to overthrow the government. A "tamed" Hitler looked "sadder and wiser". Authorities believed Hitler "was no longer to be feared" and "he will retire to private life."
*fun*
The side project was to create an environment of 2 meter tall comic book covers for website environments in Apple Vision Pro. This environment didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but it was a fund exercise.
vimeo.com/1142148623?s...
LOL, I just had that issue out for a separate project.
