Link. Best balloon review.

Link. When I finally go from Aperture to Photos (this year) I’ll buy this. All these functions and more were part of Aperture of course.

Link. I’d be surprised if it were just one app impacted.

Link. I watch 1 football game a year, bu with this article I can be like ChatGPT.

Link. Microsoft and Adobe.

Link. Some problems are hard and look hard. The worst hard problems look easy.

Link. Your coding job is safe. FWIW much great software is gone and if AI could recreate some of that I’d be pleased.

Link. With special needs children many women work from home; the isolation falls mostly on mothers.

Link. Background noises, use iPhone as a microphone, decibel readings.

Link. There’s room for many different takes.

Link. We’ve come a long way since file sharing over AppleTalk. Which, I gotta say, was more reliable than file sharing with Monterey.

Link. For a bicycle a stop sign becomes a yield sign — which makes sense for bicycles but not for cars.

Link. Did rather well.

Link. CPR?! Hope was mostly respiratory. All dogs and people in dog day care center are well after neighborhood and fire rescue.

Link. I have only a few subscription software services; I’m happy to pay for Feedbin RSS services.

Link. Whatever will be will be.

Link. Competence is good.

Link. Bangladesh did so much better.

Link. “The check bounced.” GOP superstar.

Link. This is not the 70s.

Link. “Many lifetime low-income Minnesotans, rural and urban, proud that they never “took welfare,” will get income transfers through Social Security far greater than those of any stereotypical “welfare queen.”

Link. BPT is Woke++.

Link. For fatality prevention this is much more important than wearing masks in the grocery store.

Link. Ad revenue + quality content + effective search built the 2000 WWW. Now good content is dwarfed by garbage, Google Search is dead and ad revenues are falling. We get weird ads because there’s no quality ad inventory. Have advertisers realized they were pouring money into a black hole?

Link. Erdogan says this is a time for unity. Democracy has its advantages.

Link. It’s not the Cold War. It’s not total war. But it is worldwide.

Link. Rents are very high. Article claims root cause is not enough housing stock and investors buying up a lot of the sunbelt small home market.

Link. “Founded in 300 B.C. by a former general for Alexander the Great, Antakya has been around long enough to have been destroyed and rebuilt several times. The Greeks, Romans and Byzantines called it Antioch,”

Link. Russian network. TikTok claims quickly shutdown.

Link. This is a suspiciously fun take on Elmo. Too good to be true.

Link. Bill Clinton was like that too.

Link. Just don’t lose the iPhone while exploring.

Link. An undocumented Siri feature. Great question – how do these unknowns get known?

Link. Musk wins!

Link. Google is vulnerable.

Link. Scalzi lends Schneier the mike to talk about his new book.

Link. Lessons suggested.

Link. Extreme candor from Facebook. The app is software insanity.

Link. “Twitter relies on software created by an anti-trafficking organization called Thorn. Twitter has not paid the organization since Mr. Musk took over”. NYT wrote code that found many missed tweets. Moderators fired.

Link. Via Tsai. I put these into a text note.

Link. There’s a knack to writing good prompts.

Link. The mouse cannot be replaced.

Link. Xi is a moron.

Link. “really don’t have to buy off too many members of Congress to block any reform.” Quite a nice explainer. A product of SCOTUS and Congressional corruption.

Link. Notes is pretty cool app — as long as you remember there’s no versioning.

Link. Dr Drang liked this guide.

Link. Migration is possible but a long way from ready for anyone.

Link. AI just wants to be free. (via Marcus Hutchins)

Link. We are coming for you fungi.

Link. “It’s a hard world out there. If you’re one of the lucky guys with good emotional control and understanding it might help to know how this goes. If you’re a cop — I hope you’re getting the autism/special needs training now being introduced into high performing police forces.”