Abstractions

Claude Fable & Mythos models are once again available, Sony kills PlayStation physical game discs, Xbox fires thousands of employees, commencement speakers are surprised by “AI” backlash, and Allbirds pivots from shoes to data centers. 🔗 Links “Bring Me to Life” cover: Gregorian “Bring Me to Life” cover: Otamatone Fable 5 & Mythos 5 are now available again ChatGPT can’t believe RAM prices...

Video game summer sales commence, we remember Om Malik, Apple raises prices, Apple Silicon servers could power Apple Intelligence, and Facebook and Amazon foist generative software onto their employees. 🔗 Links Free The Icons: Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons Remembering Om Malik Om Malik, 1966-2026 – On my Om Matt Mullenweg: All Roads Lead to Om Daring Fireball: Om...

SpaceX stock price plummets, Llama.cpp and LlamaBarn are now “Llama”, and Microsoft hopes to make people addicted to its software. 🔗 Links Are you in the weights? Steam Machine launches Llama Microsoft Wants to “Make People Addicted” to its New AI Assistant Original paywalled article You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space . Dan Jacobson...

Apple II retro-gaming, small wins in Apple OS 27, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 & Mythos 5, and the SpaceX IPO. You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space . Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca .

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announces Siri AI and other improvements to its upcoming OS 27 line of operating system software. 🔗 Links WWDC26 highlights: Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, and more Apple introduces Siri AI You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space . Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca...

Google kills its search product after 25 years and announces its Gemini-LLM-centric “Googlebook” notebook, while Plex triples its lifetime pass price to $750. 🔗 Links The Virtual OS Museum Is AI Profitable? Google kills its search product after 25 years On Google declaring war on the Web Ad Infinitum Search alternatives: Kagi DuckDuckGo Ecosia Startpage Googlebook Official Reddit announcement pos...

Friends don’t let friends use Ollama, local software needs to be the norm, and why it’s not fun to read what LLMs write. 🔗 Links Since You Arrived Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama Local AI needs to be the norm Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud Local-first Software Directory Sinceerly Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain original 404 Media link (paywalled) You can find...

Apple has a new CEO, Mac windows still have proxy icons, and Anthropic finds a clever way to increase the price for Claude without increasing prices. 🔗 Links Pelican 4.12 released Bubbles.town Window proxy icons in Mac OS 8.5 Human Interface Guidelines (1998) Window proxy icons in Neovide Claude 4.7 increased token usage You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse...

We discuss a tool for comparing coding fonts, GitHub announces support for stacked pull requests, and Facebook kills its “metaverse”. 🔗 Links Abstractions episode title truncated CodingFont.com GitHub stacked PRs Native instant space switching on MacOS AeroSpace tiling window manager for MacOS Open-source design stack Facebook kills its metaverse You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmaye...

Little Snitch is now available for Linux, OpenAI buys a podcast, web sites hijack the browser back button, and a bundle of 30 WordPress plugins were hacked. 🔗 Links MacOS scroll-to-zoom Little Snitch for Linux Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close OpenAI buys TBPN Om Malik and Ben Thompson’s take Sometimes powerful people just do dumb s–t A new spam policy for “back button hij...

Claude Code leaks its source code, GitHub uptime woes continue, people may become dependent on LLMs, and local LLMs are getting faster. 🔗 Links Idiocracy Proximity Index Claude Code Unpacked The Missing GitHub Status Page GitHub’s Historic Uptime Gemma 4 LLM — Unsloth Gemma 4 on iPhone: Google AI Edge Gallery LlamaBarn You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse a...

CoPilot puts Microsoft ads in GitHub pull requests, Apple discontinues the Mac Pro, and Anthropic stands by its values and forgoes a government contract. 🔗 Links CBonsai Meow.camera Purrrr cat feeder Purrrr iPhone app Neko House cat desk Custom Cat Aquarium Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR GitHub kills Copilot PR ads after backlash CoPilot training opt-out settings LinkedIn feed view settings Appl...

Apple puts ads in Maps, ARM will fab its own CPUs, and Python darling Astral is acquired by OpenAI. 🔗 Links Unstream Flighty Airports GG desktop GUI app for Jujutsu Introducing Apple Business Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users Alternative map apps OpenStreetMap Organic Maps CoMaps ARM announces its own CPUs Astral acquired by OpenAI You can find Justin Mayer on the w...

Human.json helps create a web of trust for human-created content, Justin builds a Pelican plugin to support it, and Nvidia DLSS 5 aims to “enhance” first-person game realism. 🔗 Links Human.json human.json Human plugin for Pelican Justin’s human.json file Nvidia DLSS 5 Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash Gamers are right to be disgusted by NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 39 DLSS 5 Memes That Made Gamers Fear T...

We celebrate both our one-year anniversary and 50th episode, Apple marks 50 years of thinking different, and people learn from even the least powerful of computers. 🔗 Links Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language 50 years of thinking different Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different (YouTube video) “This Is Not The Computer For You” Tailscale ZMX a-Shell a-Shell o...

Apple announces the affordable MacBook Neo, and rising hardware component prices threaten local computing, self-hosting, and data sovereignty. 🔗 Links Muspy : Be notified when artists release new music MacBook Neo M5 MacBook Air iPhone 17e M4 iPad Air Mac Mini and Apple servers to be made in Houston 512 GB Mac Studio vanishes Control : No RAM/GPUs/drives = no local computing Hetzner prices increa...

Bots hit Justin’s open-source repositories, and Apple announces new high-end M5 MacBook Pros and Studio Display monitors. 🔗 Links XKCD digital infrastructure comic, now interactive Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all‑new M5 Pro and M5 Max, delivering breakthrough pro performance and next-level on-device AI Apple unveils new Studio Display and a...

OpenAI outgrows its original mission, generative LLM software overwhelms open source maintainers, and several projects attempt to distinguish human from bot contributors. 🔗 Links My journey to the microwave alternate timeline Mastodon is for the people “My Friends Are Not for Sale” T-shirts OpenAI’s mission statement evolution AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects Respectful Open Source Vouch...

Hard drives are sold out for the year, Apple announces video podcasts, OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI, and generative software bots make open source maintainers’ jobs even harder. 🔗 Links Justin makes it into Virtualenv docs Homebrew Python Is Not for You WD & Seagate confirm hard drives are already sold out for the entire year Apple video podcasts Audiophiles can’t tell the difference between...

Discord will require face scan or ID for full access, Qobuz adopts human-first policy on software-generated music, and research indicates LLMs intensify work instead of reducing it. 🔗 Links Sandboxels Discord limits access if age is unverified Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Discord admits data breach of users’ government IDs they collected How to Delete your Dis...

Clawdbot’s new name changes (again) to OpenClaw, related projects Moltbook and Moltworker arise, Apple acquires Q.ai while losing the faith of long-time fans, and the Jekyll static site generator may be abandoned. 🔗 Links OpenClaw Moltbook Moltworker Apple Acquires Q.ai The Fallen Apple by Matt Gemmell Pelican static site generator You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on th...

Apple announces 2nd-generation AirTags, Jujutsu aims to best Git at version control, Claude Code continues to impress, and Moltbot can connect LLMs to your entire digital life. 🔗 Links Apple announces 2nd-generation AirTags iOS 18.7.4 Jujutsu version control system Jujutsu terminal user interfaces jjui [ lazyjj ]https://github.com/Cretezy/lazyjj) Claude Code configuration for Django projects Molt...

Apple releases Creator Studio replete with cringe-worthy icons, Gemini will power Apple Intelligence, OpenAI will put ads into ChatGPT, and Tailwind CSS revenues and headcount are decimated by LLMs. 🔗 Links Antidepressant or Tolkien character? Apple Creator Studio press release Apple Creator Studio icon history Apple’s icons meet Benjamin Button Ads in ChatGPT LLMs hurt Tailwind’s business You ca...

Anna’s Archive backs up all of Spotify, users are vexed by icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe menu items, email-based authentication is on the rise, and Microsoft wants you to stop saying “slop”. 🔗 Links 2025 but depicted in gingerbread Enclose.horse game Robot kicks human (video) DuckDuckGo without “AI” answers Anna’s Archive backs up all of Spotify Hide the notification badge on the iOS Settings app Last...

Mozilla has a new CEO, Olmo 3 open-source LLM is released, Justin switches to Kagi for web searches, and Dan installs Unraid for network-attached storage. 🔗 Links Scooter: Interactive find-and-replace in the terminal SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox Olmo 3 open-source LLM Unraid You can find Justin Mayer on...