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I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.

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Good catch, fixed, thanks to you!

06.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The exception that proves the rule! Will update, thanks!

06.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WSJ: β€˜Trump Administration Shuns Anthropic, Embraces OpenAI in Clash Over Guardrails’ Link to: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-will-end-government-use-of-anthropics-ai-models-ff3550d9

I called that "a preposterous, childish (and almost certainly illegal) overreaction” in my preceding post:

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02.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Boy, I sure hope that doesn’t itch like hell, nonstop, all day and night.

02.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

And the other possibility is that the speed-bump MacBooks (Pro and Air) and get announced on Newsroom tomorrow, and Apple saves the all-new lower-priced model for introduction Wednesday morning.

02.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I lost a full paragraph of text, and no combination of Undo or Redo could get it back. Shameful.

02.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was writing some entries yesterday covering last week, and got burned, bad, by the buggy Undo stack in Journal on Mac. It’s just as buggy as on iOS, but on the Mac I expected it to work.

02.03.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think base iPads are coming, given that they weren’t announced today alongside M4 iPad Air. Maybe new MacBooks get announced tomorrow and all the news is out for 24 hours by the time of Wednesday’s media β€œexperience”?

02.03.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Anthropic and Alignment’ Link to: https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/

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02.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

I see all the same things on iOS too. I don’t think the Mac version is any worse, and alas, no better. (Good contrast is with Apple Notes, where the Mac app is clearly better at many things, like formatting text, and formatting tables, than the iOS versions.)

01.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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You can just say things.

28.02.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 4669 πŸ” 1314 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 98

I’ve poked at it on my Tahoe test machine. Definitely has that SwiftUI smell. What specific things have you noticed?

01.03.2026 04:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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i'm glad apple music makes it clear i'm only dragging ONE (1) sidebar item around. imagine how confusing it would be without that red badge!! <β€” SARCASM

28.02.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

27.02.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 2848 πŸ” 777 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 22

I will, soon, I promise.

26.02.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a reason why Dr. Who never wastes time looking for a new device to replace his sonic screwdriver.

26.02.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But basically, I actually prefer most of the UI changes in iOS 26. I loathe every change in MacOS 26, and none of Tahoe’s new features particularly call to me.

26.02.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My 2025 Apple Report Card A mixed year.

I discuss the distinction here in my annual Apple Report Card:

https://daringfireball.net/2026/02/my_2025_apple_report_card

26.02.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a 100 Sleep score from Apple Health.

Screenshot of a 100 Sleep score from Apple Health.

As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado.

26.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

I know Marco Arment has put a lot of work into the Apple Watch Overcast app, but I can’t vouch for it personally, because I tend only to listen via the Overcast iPhone app. But it might be worth a try?

23.02.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

21.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 10482 πŸ” 2816 πŸ’¬ 221 πŸ“Œ 151
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Politics and the English Language, January 2026 Edition Tim Cook’s call for β€œdeescalation” is meaningless without specifying which side he’s calling upon to change course, and there’s no weaker sauce than the weak sauce of β€œboth sides”.

It's colder in Minnesota, but the wind is gusting in Cupertino.

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29.01.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 6

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

27.01.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 11016 πŸ” 3997 πŸ’¬ 222 πŸ“Œ 91
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The Names They Call Themselves *Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

"Fascist" and "Nazi" weren't slurs applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That's what they called themselves. This madness will not end until we make the names Trump's regime calls themselves universally acknowledged slurs.
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27.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

This is the mainstream position! It’s just our deluded Supreme Court that thinks it must pretend to look into George Washington’s soul before saying the Second Amendment means whatever they think it should mean

27.01.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 185 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

27.01.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 625 πŸ” 225 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5

And now a word from measles

27.01.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 305 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah basically everything was so bad I can’t remember anything specific.

27.01.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders WASHINGTONβ€”Urging locals to β€œfully cooperate” with federal agents, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Minneapolis residents Monday to stop obstructing murders. β€œThe brave ...

β€œThe brave men and women of ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol are doing their best to carry out these executions in a safe and professional manner,” said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

27.01.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 2242 πŸ” 445 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 20
NFL 2025 Playoffs: Conference Championships

Conference championship betting:

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