This is what nano banana (pro) generated based on what it knew of gurupanguji.com. The distillation of information is so powerful. That image is dense with insights. If you squint at it a little, this is a path to much more powerful targeting. User profiles can now be far more de … | Continue reading
I love space technology. I grew up in a rocket family with my dad being a rocket scientist. So, space and aerospace technologies have always fascinated me. I want to call out that we live in one of the most exciting times for aerospace flight. Space X and now, Blue Origin are tru … | Continue reading
But it would be uncouth for me to pretend that there isn’t some self-interest involved. Being in charge of a social media project is, turns out, quite the stressful endeavour, and I don’t have the right personality for it. I think I need not elaborate that the passion so many fee … | Continue reading
Older methods for archiving text messages often relied on carrier-level logging, which is incompatible with modern encrypted messaging. Our new solution allows third-party archival apps to integrate directly with Google Messages on a work device. When configured by your IT organi … | Continue reading
Essentially, I think the story of these circular deals is really no different than the big macro story about the AI boom itself. AI is the most promising technology out there, and we’re simply betting a lot of our economy on the hope that we can exploit its full potential. Should … | Continue reading
The new AI model, WeatherNext 2, can generate forecasts eight times faster than Google’s previous model, and is also more accurate in predicting 99.9 percent of variables like temperature or wind. WeatherNext 2 can pump out hundreds of potential outcomes from a particular startin … | Continue reading
Why take on additional supply chain risks adding another dependency when an LLM can likely kick out the subset of functionality needed by your own code to-order? > I still believe in open source, and I’m still doing it (in fits and starts). But one thing has become clear to me: t … | Continue reading
https://omarchy.org I love giving life to old computers. Over the weekend, I got my son a used M1 Macbook Air and so a 2014 intel based 13″ Macbook Pro that was flashed with Chrome OS Flex became available to tinker. I immediately got started setting up omarchy on it. Honestly, i … | Continue reading
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“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that’s using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I’ … | Continue reading
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One of the great causes of suffering is this maddening worry about what others think of us. I can go into its causes by pointing to evolutionary psychology and our hunter-gatherer roots, but that’s neither novel nor interesting. Rather, I want to delve into the asymmetry between … | Continue reading
The entire vibe of this is just delightful. I don’t think a product has made me feel this way in a long time. I want this. | Continue reading
Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit,” according to the compl … | Continue reading
this really is getting good and I particularly appreciate that it’s all tied to one subscription. one of the things I learned from Amazon prime is that the more you keep adding value, the lower your churn rate is going to be. makes me quite bullish on openai tbh. | Continue reading
and everyone wants to kill the web. fwiw, this is the same impetus that facebook also had when they introduced their own browser – yeah you can follow a link _outside_, but you still have to stay within the app. engagement “maxxing” only ends one way because it starts from a zero … | Continue reading
I love visual capitalist. Surprising data: Japan as #4 and Liberia (what?). Most of the rest of the composition makes sense to me. | Continue reading
I was today years old when I realized I didn’t know how an anchor actually works. | Continue reading
If your Tahoe mac is causing a system wide lag, there’s a known issue with Electron and Mac OS Tahoe. By now a lot of the usual suspects have issued a fix – https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/ However, a big hold up still seems to be Cursor. Here’s a script you can run to det … | Continue reading
I’ve always had a soft spot for capturing ‘the moment.’ This year’s “pure street photography awards” are just delightful. Take a look at their finalists page if you find joy in these kinda photos too. | Continue reading
I don’t know. I am both a user of passkeys and generally wary of making myself overly dependent on tech giants and complex solutions. I’m noticing an increased reliance and potential loss of access to my own data. This does abstractly concern me. Not to the degree that it changes … | Continue reading
There’s something kind of cruel about the way wisdom works. It refuses to arrive during the easy seasons, when we have space to receive it gracefully. Instead, it waits. It lurks in the margins of our carefully constructed lives, patient as winter, until the moment when everythin … | Continue reading
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloqu … | Continue reading
whoever said “puns are a lower form of wit” has not spent enough time appreciating the fluidity of language | Continue reading
The front wing is a new package, described by the team as featuring “locally increased cambers to extract more load”. It’s difficult to pick up those subtle profile changes, but what is very clear is that Red Bull has moved the two slot gap separators that I have highlighted with … | Continue reading
I understand the impulse. Exercise sucks. Who doesn’t want a pat on the head for doing the Hard Thing? Trust me. I’ve turned heads in public for letting out a string of expletives whenever a smartwatch fails to correctly log a five-mile test run. Are you kidding me, I have to do … | Continue reading
audacity is an incredible case of thoughtful, considered redesign and modernization. this (long) video also gives a wonderful view into the really hard problems around massive scale product development. honestly, it was delightful! | Continue reading
The new approach to window management looks excellent. The (predicted) ability to be able to record podcast interviews on it looks like it could really free me up to record from remote locations. iPadOS excitement – MacPsych dot blog Look, that windows can exist without getting k … | Continue reading
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche There are so many things that I wish I’d learned sooner in my life. During the quarter life crises – the stage where you move from the gumption of teenage to the first hit of life as an adult – […] | Continue reading
“Stress is doing something you don’t care about, with time that you do.” – Anon | Continue reading
But quickly, I remembered why I fell in love with writing in the first place. Each session pushed my mental boundaries, challenged my assumptions, and reignited my creativity. Because at the end of the day, writing isn’t just about publishing, it’s about sharpening the mind and c … | Continue reading
when sending during work blackout hours, set an option to default to “send later at work start time” I’m a believer that the recipient should always manage their notifications. however, I also think it’s good hygiene for folks to practice, esp in high power distance situations. | Continue reading
The vast majority of Asahi Group’s 30 factories in Japan have not operated since Monday after the attack disabled its ordering and delivery system, the company said. Retailers are expecting empty shelves as the outage stretches into its fourth day with no clear timeline for facto … | Continue reading
Theo Browne noticed that you can set a text prompt in your “Cameo preferences” to influence your appearance, but this text appears to be concatenated into the overall video prompt, which means you can use it to subvert the prompts of anyone who selects your cameo to use in their … | Continue reading
Simon Willison, an independent ai researcher who sits on the board of the Python software foundation, nicknames the combination of outside-content exposure, private-data access and outside-world communication the “lethal trifecta”. In June Microsoft quietly released a fix for suc … | Continue reading
In all the things that I don’t like about Liquid Glass, I forget to celebrate the things that make Apple great – continuous improvements to core features that make the Mac great. Terminal is my favorite terminal emulator app. I know there are better terminal apps out there in the … | Continue reading
That, however, is often an error. People no more want to chat with every device in their life than they want to have dinner with their Kitchenaid dishwasher. They just want those things to do what they were bought to do, and chat, too often, gets in the way. Consumers are increas … | Continue reading
But what about the broader consumer market? When laypeople can’t meaningfully evaluate model quality, they default to what feels best, creating dangerous incentives for labs to optimize for subjective satisfaction rather than genuine capability. This mirrors how we evaluate other … | Continue reading
Looks like I am not the only person who’s in denial that the time for the mickey mouse gloves are truly over. =( Meanwhile, I do think that the new default pointer for Tahoe is better than the previous default. | Continue reading
We’re in uncharted territory. These tools are less than three years old, and nobody knows what happens when someone uses the same AI assistant for a decade. How much should it remember? How should it handle years of accumulated context? Meanwhile, we’re seeing a Cambrian explosio … | Continue reading
https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-26-tahoe-the-macstories-review John meanwhile has the pen for the Mac OS 26 reviews. This is something I am going to pore over when I get a chance. My Mac is my favorite and most important technology piece and I cannot wait to dig into thi … | Continue reading
Federico is back with his annual iOS and iPad OS 26 reviews. Grab your favorite beverage (likely beverages for this one) and go through 20 pages of detailed observations and connections. https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-26-the-macstories-review | Continue reading
Anyway, it’s got me doing that thing again where I feel the need to have everything on both macOS and Linux. This always turns into a shitshow, but I can’t help myself. jack tries linux this really resonated. I’ve had a linux distribution on a stick that i’ve maintained a slax di … | Continue reading
All of this makes me think that Apple is close to introducing devices where the screen disappears seamlessly into the physical edge. Something where flexible OLED blurs the distinction between pixels and bezel. A new “wraparound” screen with safe area insets on the vertical edges … | Continue reading
Source: [Colossal] These are mesmerizing. I would love a game that features this style of art. Incredible. | Continue reading
I have a soft spot for delightful little web tools. HDR Gradients is a perfect example of the type of tool that are awesome. Adam Argyle hit this one out of the park | Continue reading
I’ve heard this line of argument before. I think Jim’s more self aware than most that there’s a false equivalence here. Let me do my best to enunciate it for my own sake: Adding more context is the mental equivalent of learning more about a problem space. When one learns more abo … | Continue reading