johnke.meMe, yesterday:
I’m in Europe where Apple features work especially bad, if we get them at all
Apple, today:
Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU
Classic Apple.
Anil Dash:
Many people have the quisling impulse to insist that Apple had to kiss Trump’s ass. “They’ll be stuck with really high tariffs!" “They might lose government contracts!" This is foolishness, of cause, because all of this will still happen. The only thing that’s different is that Apple will have to navigate those headwinds while everyone in the world already knows that they’re led by a CEO who has already bent the knee, and by a board that collectively has no spine. There’s no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say “fuck you”!
Watching the obsequiousness of tech leaders in the 2025 has been disheartening and Anil Dash nails it here.
This is such a lovely way of displaying old magazines. Seeing the ebb and flow of the page sizes as their subject reaches and then recedes from its zenith. Byte was 90% advertising but with enough time, even those are fascinating artifacts.
I’m a big believer in nostalgia as a form of self-soothing and this site is an incredible example of it. Currently working with 80s cartoons on the other screen and it’s bringing me a tremendous amount of peace.
sickos.jpg YES… HA HA HA… YES!
Since the rise of LLMs, the number of personal blogs I’ve been subscribing to has exploded. People are actually writing for other people again and not just for SEO bullshit and I love it.
A perfect follow-up to the Travis Kalanick interview from a couple of weeks ago where he talks about pushing the boundaries of quantum physics using a chatbot and “vibe physics”.
Graphite is a rust-based vector editor. It’s only a web app right now (desktop apps coming later this year) but tbqh sometimes I’m just doing something so quick that it doesn’t need more than this. Handy!
A really lovely talk by graphic designer Chip Kidd about the thought process behind some of the book covers he’s designed, like Jurassic Park and IQ84. He’s such a character! I loved this.
She is five. She does not speak in sentences yet, but she knows how to answer a joke with a smirk. She organizes her markers by color, then chaos, then color again. She plays baseball without rules, which is probably the right way to play it. She hums when she’s thinking. She hums a lot.
This is beautiful.