This year’s WWDC keynote was an odd one. It was relatively short at around 76 minutes, for one thing. It also eschewed the usual OS-by-OS structure, but I think that’s for the best. The biggest change...
I’ve been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I can’t remember being less excited for rumoured WWDC announcements. Apple’s software story is in rough shape, and I worry that this...
Yesterday, I wrote about the massive increase in security issues being identified by AI. Daniel Stenberg, the author of curl, was a key part of that story. At first he was being overwhelmed by a torre...
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interesti...
I’ve been noticing a lot of service outages lately. Some with few enough nines that you’d think they were going for a low score. My guess: this is probably going to get worse before it gets better. Bu...
Nilay Patel put out an excellent Decoder episode today. In it, he dove into the idea of “software brain”, which is something he’s been workshopping during the past several Vergecast episodes. It’s his...
Yesterday, Claude Code disappeared from the $20/month subscription tier on Anthropic’s website. Well, for some people. Then it came back. As Simon Willison put it, it’s all very confusing. Anthropic’s...
Yesterday, Tim Cook announced his timeline for stepping down as Apple’s CEO. I felt like I should write something about this, but I wasn’t sure what. I fell back into thinking about Cook’s time by the...
I live in a weird place. Happily, it’s often a good type of weird. Sadly, it’s also a place where, in general, motorists aren’t very concerned with things like “obeying laws” or “not hitting people”.