If one has been following news out of Apple, this new interview of John Ternus by Andrew R. Chow, Time Magazine, will not have anything that will be surprising. (Did you know the first foldable-device patent by Apple was filed back in 2011? That was the year when Apple released iPhone 4S, the first iPhone with Apple's Siri.) But if one hasn't been keeping up with what's happening over at Cupertino, this interview is a nice summary of the what's and how's over at Apple. ~ Link: John Ternus Is…

We’ve seen the trailers. We’re in the swirl of they hype storm. What the real story wil be is yet to unfold. Even so, some are declaring success before the first reel even kicks off. It’s not hard to see the excitement around the iPhone Duo, Apple’s folding iPhone, and the Homeview gadget meant to be used in your home by you and all of your very loud family members. Even so, Time Magazine’s cover story about The Best Inventions of 2026, featuring new Apple CEO John Ternus feels a bit premature.…

The idea was simple: replace the PhD student’s cumbersome NLP pipeline for the surface realisation step to generate the ontology-based educational questions, answers, and feedback with an LLM. We’d start with English and then expand to other languages relevant for both the Horizon Europe project “STARWARS” and the South African project KeBoNa that we’re part of and leading, respectively, being French, Italian, Arabic, and isiXhosa. For instance, given Disjointwith(Valve ConnectionPoint), an…

Alongside generally approved backpedals and tweaks to Liquid Glass, the ‘27 cycle of OS releases from Apple brought about some newer, more curious appearances of the material. Glass has never been this liquid, they say.I want to examine some of these new forms and see if they achieve what Liquid Glass purportedly set out to do, or at least achieve their own intended design. Figure 1: Siri conversations grid In the new Siri app, if a past conversation contained some key image, it’s features in…

Link: 2025 Academic Convocation Keynote Speaker Astro Teller “The fool loves side quests and often goes looking for them. Push down your focus and see how high you can turn up your curiosity. Yes, you have to file your taxes on time. But don’t let that become an excuse to get stuck in largely focused, goal-chasing mode. You will get more in life and you will have more fun getting it if you are open to side quests.” Tags: #astro-teller #creative-practice #foolish

The entire marketing message of the leading US based LLM companies seems to be that they will be the first to achieve actual artificial intelligence aka what these dweebs call “artificial general intelligence” or AGM. Furthermore that once a LLM achieves this, it will recursively improve itself, becoming a super-sentient god-like being. Both of these […]

# Introduction For the last seven months, I spent a good part of my (small amount of) free time rebuilding my self-hosting infrastructure at home. I wanted something secure, fully automated, that updates itself and that I can rebuild from scratch if something goes wrong. Most of the ideas come from my work on infrastructures following SecNumCloud (a French security standard for cloud providers) and, to a lesser extent, ISO 27001, I wanted to see how far I could apply the same principles at…

One of the unfortunate things about moving a music library between macbooks is that for some reason, album artwork gets lost. I think there is a file somewhere that contains this information, but obviously I neglected to transfer it (or else, the new macbook is looking for the file in a different place). This results in the unpleasant experience of seeing the ugly generic music note in place of pleasing album cover art. Apple Music does a decent enough job of finding album artwork, but it is…

Previous posts in this series introduced Frml, explained how it checks simplar scalar code and handles contracts between functions, and then discussed how it deals with loops, checks arrays, and checks built-in functions. The final language level, complete, doesn’t add any new features. Instead, it serves as a placeholder in case we want to extend the language further. I’m not going to do this myself, but if you are a student (or a professor looking for projects for students) please get in…

I came across the above bar chart on my Twitter feed. It features 10 acquisitions considered "best of all time" by considering the purchase price and the "absolute dollar return" of the purchase.Simply said, these acquisitions were well worth the price tag.From the Trifecta Checkup's perspective, the Question of the chart is clear.Moving on to the Visual corner of the Trifecta, we immediately stumble upon a vexing problem. The bar heights are not scaled properly. The total height for…

IntroductionHere’s a question for you: do you need to use a frontend framework to build a modern UK government service?As readers of my blog will know, I’m a massive fan of the ⁠GOV.UK Design System and the team who work on and maintain it. Having worked with the team for several years, it’s fantastic to see people so dedicated to their craft and who understand the gigantic impact their work has on inclusive design across government.At the heart of the Design System is ⁠GOV.UK Frontend, the…

This is one of a three-part mini series about how I’m using modern C as of late 2026. Before C23, I was taken in by How I Program C for years and years, and would even feel guilty for choosing C99 instead of -ansi -pedantic. But holy crap man I’m done being a doomsday prepper! These days I maintain a large-enough project with enough users where I could stand less foot-shooting.

As the cost of generating words drops, the world fills with more of them. I want to see whether AI can make communication clearer and more considered without doing the thinking for me. For 30 days, I’ll note what works and what doesn’t. The plan I write to think. I’ll keep the first draft mine, then use AI to sharpen the idea. I am curious how this is going to turn out.

13:57 - My latest post has 3 upvotes, even though I've disabled upvotes and you can't even view upvote counts on Bear Blog discovery anymore. So either 3 people went out of their way to stealthily upvote my post or it's the work of bots. I'd rather it be humans.

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Magic Pages — Ghost hosting run by the amazing Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki. I moved my site there a few years ago and have been thrilled ever sense.Last week I had the privilege to sit down with Jannis to talk about em, among other things. It was a lot of fun and we covered a lot in our hour together. If you want an insight into why and how I built em and more of my views on writing online, give it a listen!Listen to Magic Pages PodcastIf you're looking for…

I see this topic bouncing around the blogosphere here, here and here. I don't use passkeys. I find their usage and day-to-day workflow confusing. I'm sure that's because I use a 3rd-party password manager instead of whatever thing is built into Google. Like, if I just stopped resisting and let Google take that part over, I'm sure it would be easier, but then what do I do when I need to authenticate with my passkey on my Linux computer? What sort of weird, convoluted export process will I need…

I have been establishing baselines for a project at the prime intellect residency and we were using swe-multimodal v2 for performing ablations. I found out that gpt 6 Luna xhigh performed on the benchmark similarly whether I used normal images or OCR or no images at all. This was bit baffling at first but based on some further slop-investigation, I concluded that most of the information required to solve the tasks was provided in the text part of the tasks or was derivable from code. In other…

TrellisWM nests your real Mac windows inside each other, as deep as you like. Zoom out to see everything. Zoom into whatever you need. I’m not happy with any of the window managers I use. Keen to try this out. ↬ ∙ Tagged in Productivity, Software.

Part of the reason AI is so appealing is that it increases productivity. Lots of developers do not realise that they can increase their productivity significantly without AI!

Virgin Media O2 has announced that it is transferring the ongoing management of its consumer email service to Junara, a dedicated email provider owned by Atmail. The announcement comes via Alan Stott, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Media O2, who framed the change as a way for the company to focus on its core business (broadband, mobile, landline, and TV) rather than continuing to run a consumer email platform it stopped offering to new customers back in 2022.What's ChangingAffected customers…

For fellow link lovers/explorers, I’ve created 2 public collections of bookmarks from my account at Raindrop.io: Related: Raindrop bulltown collection (RSS) Raindrop i.webthings hub collection (RSS) i.webthings@Pinboard (RSS) Enjoy!

Usually I blog about new additions to the GNOME wallpapers after a release, to give some behind the scenes look on how they were produced. This time I'm asking for some feedback beforehand. Pixels has shipped as a wallpaper before. The wallpaper landed back in 2021 and keeps getting refreshed as new Circle apps join the lineup, and 47 added LCD and LCD-rainbow, revealing the curator's pixelart kink. The raw material is a side project years in the making — app icons redrawn as chunky pixels…

this page is a stub to group CAD-related resources CategoryDateLinkNotes3D Mouse Drivers2026-10AxialOpen-source macOS 3Dconnexion driver and local integration service with Client API, HID listener and application navigation APIs SpacePilot WindowsOpen-source Windows driver for 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse, SpacePilot and SpaceExplorer devices, with navigation support and a local integration API Applications2026-10SolidCraftOpen-source parametric 3D CAD application written in Rust, with desktop,…

People are starting to think about 1-3 person teams making full games with AI that rival AAA studios.The idea being that they're competing by making stuff people want.What I don't think enough people are thinking about is your AI interviewing you for 9 hours and building you 10 perfect games just for you.Soon we’ll have games customized to your favorite storylines and fetishes that are continuously varied by AI.Gaming is Metaverse 1.0 (2022)Or making you 10 full TV series like Game of Thrones,…

I said, I think in 2023, that we’d have AGI between 2025 and 2028, with 2027 being the most likely year.I still say 2027 for an AI product that can replace an average knowledge worker. And I think that’s the definition of AGI to use.Daniel Miessler on X (June 2025)The whole debate is very strange because so much depends on definitions, but I think we got AGI this year. In 2026. In the form of Claude Tag.Elaborating...Why do I consider that AGI?Because it’s persistent, organizational memory that…

Read on the website: Scheme is fun and pretty! It could be even more perfect, and that’s what I explore in this post.

I certainly would not hire 1,000 third-party consultants to help fix patches. I would probably rethink the architecture of the whole system and company, so that the exposed footprint is minimized. I would give proper training to the internal 3.000 people and power them with AI tooling (even if for monitoring and preventing attacks). And I would even consider open-sourcing the code. But hiring a lot of (most likely under qualified) people to patch vulnerabilities is a losing game.

Jitsi Meet is a free video-conferencing package of which I have been hosting an instance since 2020. Here's how I have it set up.

In 2026, the developer who writes every line by hand and reads every line with their own eyes will disappear. So what should us poor developers do now? Maybe we should start a new carrer as plumpers? I believe you no longer need to pay a human to turn an idea into code. Idea -> Code You still need humans that even know which Idea is worth to implement. What should we even built > How can we built it You still need people who build software that actually solves other people’s problems. Also you…