🇯🇵 JP
Daring Fireball (John Gruber)
Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2026
So Close to Getting It (theverge.com)
Sofa 5.0 (sofahq.com)
Lisa Melton: ‘Memories of Steve’ (and Memories of Safari’s Unique Page-Loading Indicator in Particular) (lisamelton.net)
★ David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again (daringfireball.net)
Screen Zooming on iOS (mastodon.social)
Fraudulent Cryptocurrency App in Mac App Store Stole $9.5 Million From 50-Some Users (web3isgoinggreat.com)
On the Name of Apple’s Foldable iPhone (macrumors.com)
Speaking of Tips (houstonchronicle.com)
Apple Has Hidden the Pre-Creator-Studio Versions of Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in the Mac App Store (9to5mac.com)
Google Will Finally Begin Punishing Sites for Back-Button Hijacking in June (developers.google.com)
Amazon to Acquire Globalstar, Announces Agreement With Apple to Continue Service for iPhone and Apple Watch (aboutamazon.com)
John Calhoun on Steve Lemay (news.ycombinator.com)
Richard Moss’s 2010 Interview With John Calhoun on the Origins of Glider (macscene.net)
Glider Is Back in the Mac App Store (bsky.app)
Steven Soderbergh Twice Pitched James Bond Projects (theplaylist.net)
Apple Frames 4 (macstories.net)
Memory, They Say, Is the First Thing to Go (daringfireball.net)
[Sponsor] WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents (workos.com)
Tahoe Nitpick of the Day: ‘Reduce Transparency’ Makes Layers Harder to See, Not Easier (mastodon.social)
John Martellaro, RIP (geektells.com)
Marcin Wichary Visits the Large Scale Systems Museum (flickr.com)
MacOS Tip: Enable the Zoom ‘Peek’ Gesture (unsung.aresluna.org)
FT: ‘Meta Builds AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Interact With Staff’ (ft.com)
Apr 6 – Apr 12, 2026
Viktor Orban Concedes Election Defeat in Hungary (politicalwire.com)
Viktor Orban Loses Election in Hungary, Concedes Defeat, Congratulates Opposition Winners (nytimes.com)
Golden Tickets (presentandcorrect.com)
Pan American Luggage Labels (ellafreire.com)
★ Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead (daringfireball.net)
Ed Bindels’s Apple Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands (applemuseum.nl)
MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime — a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe (sixcolors.com)
Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File (old.reddit.com)
Lickspittle of the Week: Todd Blanche (politicalwire.com)
Anthropic’s New Claude Mythos Is So Good at Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities That They’re Not Releasing It to the Public (red.anthropic.com)
Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon (kottke.org)
Sam Altman, in a Video Released by OpenAI, Apparently Thinks AGI Is Going to Hit Society Like a Once-a-Century Pandemic (x.com)
★ OpenAI Announces $122 Billion Additional ‘Committed Capital’, and Announces Their ‘Superapp’ Plan for the Future (daringfireball.net)
Om Malik and Ben Thompson on OpenAI Buying TBPN (om.co)
Flighty Airports Meltdown Map (flighty.com)
The Data Drop: Every iPhone (sheets.works)
[Sponsor] Zed, a Font Superfamily (typotheque.com)
Anthropic Accidentally Leaked the Entire Claude Code CLI Source Code (arstechnica.com)
Little Finder Guy Stars in Nine New Apple TikTok and YouTube Videos (macrumors.com)
Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2026
An Easter Morning Message of Hope From the Winner of the FIFA Peace Prize (truthsocial.com)
Sponsorship Openings for Daring Fireball (daringfireball.net)
iOS 26 Feels Faster Than iOS 18 (daringfireball.net)
Class Action Lawsuit Says Perplexity’s ‘Incognito Mode’ Is a ‘Sham’ (arstechnica.com)
Apple Releases iOS 18 Security Updates for iOS 26 Holdouts (sixcolors.com)
Apple Still Has Jessica Chastain’s ‘The Savant’ on Ice, Seven Months After It Was Set to Debut (macstories.net)
John Buck on the Invention of QuickTime (theverge.com)
Artemis II Crew on Way to Moon (512pixels.net)
OpenAI, Supposedly Tightening Its Focus on Its Core Products, Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN (wsj.com)
Axios, Super Popular NPM Package, Was Compromised in Attack on the Module’s Maintainer (stepsecurity.io)
‘No, We’re Not Stupid. Our Dads Just Got Us Crummy Computers.’ (reddit.com)
Jason Snell on Covering Apple for 33 Years (macworld.com)
‘Great Things in Business Are Never Done by One Person. They’re Done by a Team of People.’ (youtube.com)
★ David Pogue’s ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’ (daringfireball.net)
David Pogue: ‘Apple and Me’ (pogueman.substack.com)
Trump’s White House Ballroom Design Is Shit (nytimes.com)
Trump’s White House Ballroom Design Is Shit (nytimes.com)
Chris Espinosa, Employee #8, Profiled in The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Chris Espinosa, Employee #8, Profiled in The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The Talk Show: ‘Apple at 50’ (daringfireball.net)
More on Apple’s Fun ‘Rewind’ Video (hachyderm.io)
Ben Cohen of the WSJ Tours Apple’s Archive of Prototype Hardware (youtube.com)
New Jersey, the Jackass State (x.com)
Ryan D’Agostino Profiles Tim Cook for Esquire on Apple’s 50th (esquire.com)
Inside Apple’s AirPods Max 2 and the H2 Chip Upgrade (techradar.com)
Hershey Says It Will Shift Back to Classic Recipe for All Reese’s Products After Criticism (apnews.com)
Apple Marks 50th Anniversary (apple.com)
Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’ (businessinsider.com)
RAM Is the New Bearer Bond (theatlantic.com)
Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything (bsky.app)
Appointees to Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (whitehouse.gov)
Technical Analysis of the Android Version of the White House’s New App (blog.thereallo.dev)
[Sponsor] Material Security (material.security)
‘The Brand Age’ (paulgraham.com)
Macs of Unusual Size (scottknaster.substack.com)
Mar 23 – Mar 29, 2026
Your Truly on ‘Version History’, Regarding the Macintosh (theverge.com)
The Verge: ‘Rank the Best Apple Products From the Last 50 Years’ (theverge.com)
The Talk Show: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’ (daringfireball.net)
The 2019 Intel Mac Pro’s Unfortunate Timing (512pixels.net)
Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS (daringfireball.net)
‘How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History of the Company’s Earliest Days’ (fastcompany.com)
Netflix Wrecked Their tvOS Video Player (pocket-lint.com)
Trump Is Putting His Signature on U.S. Currency (nytimes.com)
New York Post: ‘Trump Considers Renaming Strait of Hormuz’ (nypost.com)
Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral (status.news)
Apple Says No One Using Lockdown Mode Has Been Hacked With Spyware (techcrunch.com)
Apple Announces Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps (apple.com)
Netflix Raises Prices Again (variety.com)
★ Apple Giveth, Apple Taketh Away (daringfireball.net)
Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro With No Plans to Bring It Back (9to5mac.com)
The Apple Charging Situation (randsinrepose.com)
You Can Jump Right to the Updates Screen in the App Store App on iOS 26.4 (daringfireball.net)
Disney Drops Vaporware $1B Investment in OpenAI After Sora Got Axed (variety.com)
Google Brags About Android Web Browser Benchmark Scores on Unnamed Devices; Gullible Reporters Fall for It (blog.chromium.org)
NYT: ‘Melania Trump Appears With a Robot, Saying More Children Should Be Educated by Them’ (nytimes.com)
The Information: ‘Apple Can “Distill” Google’s Big Gemini Model’ (theinformation.com)
Katie Notopoulos Bids Farewell to Sora: ‘You Were Too Beautiful and Stupid for This World’ (businessinsider.com)
MacOS 26.4 Adds ‘Slow Charger’ Indicator for MacBooks (macrumors.com)
Jennifer Daniel on the New ‘Distorted Face’ Emoji (jenniferdaniel.substack.com)
The Yankees Almost Signed Another P.E.D. Cheater (mlb.com)
The New York Yankees Have the Best Record in Baseball (mlb.com)
Mr. Macintosh Explains Another Way to Block the Software Update Prompts for MacOS 26 Tahoe (youtube.com)
‘A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures’ (onefoottsunami.com)
Improved Analytics in App Store Connect (developer.apple.com)
Claude Can Now Take Control of Your Mac (claude.com)
WSJ: ‘OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop “Superapp”’ (wsj.com)
OpenAI Is Closing Sora (x.com)
iOS 26.4 (macrumors.com)
Following Google’s Lead With Pixel Phones, Samsung Announces AirDrop Support With Galaxy S26 Phones (news.samsung.com)
★ What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe (daringfireball.net)
[Sponsor] npx workos: From Auth Integration to Environment Management, Zero ClickOps (workos.com)
Gasoline Prices Around the World (globalpetrolprices.com)
WWDC 2026: June 8–12 (apple.com)
From the DF Archive, a Decade Ago: ‘The Industry Is Fucked Up’ (daringfireball.net)
The HTML Review: Issue 05 (thehtml.review)
Mar 16 – Mar 22, 2026
Mux — Video API for Developers (mux.com)
‘Good, I’m Glad He’s Dead.’ (truthsocial.com)
Half a Gigabyte of Ads (stuartbreckenridge.net)
Reuters: ‘Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop’ (reuters.com)
Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines (theverge.com)
Perhaps Bluesky’s Revelation of an 11-Month Ago $100 Million Investment Was, in Fact, an Act of Transparency (bsky.app)
Bluesky Raised $100M a Year Ago but for Some Reason Only Disclosed It Now (bsky.social)
Quiche Browser (quiche.industries)
StopTheMadness Pro and StopTheScript Extensions for Safari (mastodon.social)
Actual Headline in the Actual New York Times: ‘Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting With Japan’s Leader’ (nytimes.com)
‘Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done’ (theatlantic.com)
The Day Mark Simonson Discovered Type Design (marksimonson.com)
Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions for Android Include a 24-Hour Waiting Period (androidauthority.com)
Hacker News Discussion on Shubham Bose’s ‘The 49MB Web Page’ (news.ycombinator.com)
★ AppleScript: ‘Save MarsEdit Document to Text File’ (daringfireball.net)
The Talk Show: ‘The Pogue Feature’ (daringfireball.net)
★ ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’ (daringfireball.net)
How to Identify Your Apple Keyboard Layout by Country or Region (support.apple.com)
Jony Ive on Redesigning the Christie’s Rostrum (youtube.com)
Meta Is Dropping VR Support From Horizon Worlds (uploadvr.com)
David Zaslav Set to Receive Up to $887 Million if Paramount Acquisition of Warner Bros Closes (finance.yahoo.com)
★ Squashing (daringfireball.net)
Fox Sports to Broadcast U.S.-Venezuela World Baseball Classic Final in Immersive 3D — But Not on Vision Pro (x.com)
Samsung Discontinues Its Galaxy Z TriFold After Just Three Months (theverge.com)
Lil Finder Guy Wallpapers (512pixels.net)
‘The Last Quiet Thing’ (terrygodier.com)
Apple Introduces AirPods Max 2 (apple.com)
★ Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator (daringfireball.net)
Mar 9 – Mar 15, 2026
CHM Live: Apple at 50 (youtube.com)
Finalist 3.6 (finalist.works)
‘This Is Not the Computer for You’ (samhenri.gold)
Blaming AI for Layoffs: ‘It Plays Better’ (resume.org)
Horace Dediu on Apple Sitting Out the AI Spending Race (asymco.com)
Reuters: ‘Meta Planning Sweeping Layoffs as AI Costs Mount’ (reuters.com)
Matt Mullenweg Documents a Dastardly Clever Apple Account Phishing Scam (ma.tt)
iFixit’s MacBook Neo Teardown (ifixit.com)
PC Makers Are Not Ready for the MacBook Neo (theverge.com)
Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes (futurism.com)
Lil Finder Guy (basicappleguy.com)
Tim Cook: ‘50 Years of Thinking Different’ (apple.com)
NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’ (nytimes.com)
Sports Programming Accounts for Almost 30 Percent of All Ad-Supported TV Viewing (deadline.com)
Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today (businessinsider.com)
‘Software Bonkers’ (craigmod.com)
★ Modifier Key Order for Keyboard Shortcuts (daringfireball.net)
★ The MacBook Neo (daringfireball.net)