This week on the podcast: Federico has an M5 Ultra Mac Studio review unit and shares what local AI looks like on macOS today — and in the future. Myke has advice for buying iPhones in countries other than your own, and Stephen is old. We will be off next week for the Podcastathon, but will be back on October 8.

It's a new season of Made from Humans: How Reality Becomes TV, and today I'm looking at my expectation versus reality of Survivor 51’s premiere, and Wonka's The Golden Ticket.

David Smith: I have launched and withdrawn more than 50 apps from the App Store over the years, but never have I had a withdrawal sustain the consistent attention that Geneva Moon (and its astronomically accurate complications) has. I pulled it 6 years ago and yet I still get people asking about it on a regular basis. It broke in watchOS 27. Over the weekend I got it working again. Here it is. I hope this makes a small but highly dedicated group of people happy. Also, I made it free.

[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with several students who felt that the pace at which the top students could understand new math concepts was far too fast for them. They, too, could understand the ideas, but it would take them much longer. Eventually, almost all of these students gave up their dream of pursuing research mathematics and found…

Today’s recording is The IT Crowd – Reynholm vs Reynholm. Douglas is being interviewed and makes a reference to his former wife Victoria, who disappeared while washing the car. Minutes later, she walks through the door after ten years missing. Douglas takes her to Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant, The Flappy Duck, and he’s still shocked by the turn of events. This episode has Matt Berry at his most Matt Berry. Next day he’s decided he wants a divorce. He brings Jen in despite her telling him…

Magical musical musings from the mind of the marvellous John Matthews. Gavilán Rayna Russom is an artist, folklorist and curator based in New York City who has been making electronic music for over thirty years. In her early twenties she became an electronics engineer and by the start of the 2000s was busy building, tweaking, and fixing custom synthesisers for DFA Records and LCD Soundsystem – she actually joined James Murphy’s band full-time from 2009 to 2018. My introduction to her music came…

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. People crowd around and say to him, “Sing again soon”—in other words, may new sufferings torture your soul. (...) Besides my other numerous circle of acquaintances I have one more intimate confidant—my melancholy. My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.…

It’s been long day but I still remembered to take a selfie. Selfie a day for a year, day 35: Sep 24, 2026 edition.

In the future, an isolated family struggles to survive in a frozen world after the Earth is torn from the Sun. This story explores many themes, the most prominent of which are hope, courage, and optimism, as well as resilience and the importance of human connection. If you’re rolling your eyes right now, well reading this story can't hurt (at the very least, it might provide some quality distraction). Pa had sent me out to get an extra pail of air. I'd just about scooped it full and most of the…

AMC is launching its Fearfest on October 1st, and for the first time in over 30 years(!) we will witness the return of the Crypt Keeper--with original voice actor John Kassir and a new puppet that looks...oh, oh no. Yes, no offense to any design studio, but when I picture the Crypt Keeper from the 1990's show, "Tales From the Crypt," that I loved in my youth and was maybe a bit too young to watch (it had more swearing and nudity than you might recall), I just don't imagine him looking like…

Sorry for the delay in getting this pregnant doll sequel up and running! Things have been tumultuous with my family lately. My dad has dementia, which is a horribly cruel fate, and a lot of the weight of that situation has shifted to my shoulders lately. So my productivity might dwindle for a while, but I won't stop playing with dolls! It's what keeps me relatively sane. &

2026-09-25 MacOS and Readline I'm a platform engineer by day, so I spend a lot of time at the command line. I've been using Bash for over twenty-five years and have become quite familiar with its key bindings. Some common ones are ctrl-a to go to the start of the line, ctrl-e to go to the end, but there are heaps more and they're worth learning. Those bindings come from GNU Readline.1 Any tool that has integrated with Readline will support all Readline bindings, and many, many tools have…

What we’re missing Once upon a time we used to have these at this time of the year. Not this year, though. Climate change is no respecter of ancient pleasures. Bah! Quote of the Day “We haven’t got a plan so nothing can go wrong!” Spike Milligan Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Van Morrison & the Chieftains | Raglan Road Link A beautiful musical setting of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem. Long Read of the Day Jeffrey Epstein has exposed the rotten state of the UK’s constitution Lovely…

Once upon a time, I ran across an experimental project called TabFS, which mounts browser tabs as a filesystem. This seemed like such a cool idea! Ever since, I have wanted a way to interact with tabs programmatically. But the main thing I’ve wanted to do is be able to grab the URLs of some or all of my open tabs, and paste them into a text file. Each time I have looked into this before, it hasn’t been possible without installing an extension. And I don’t like installing extensions. I often…

Recently I've been spending more time on Reddit following updates and news about a few games I've been playing/interested in playing. Across subreddits, there's a type of post that pops up that I've seen over the years within the Pokemon TCG subreddit, but having seen it a few times across multiple games in short succession has brought it to be front of mind lately. These posts can be widely summarized as "Why is everyone complaining?" posts. Especially with games, there's a 2-part conclusion…

Image: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (2022-2026). Photo: Juliette Demaret. Low-tech Magazine presents the fourth volume in the chronological book series. It contains twenty articles that were published online between 2022 and 2026. Three earlier volumes collect articles written and published online between 2007 and 2021, which are also bundled in the “Compressed Edition”. This new volume is a bit different from the earlier books: eight of the articles are DIY guides or manuals, and we have…

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I arrive home and frown at my porch. Why are there about ten million pumpkins on there? I make my way to the front door, tripping over pumpkins several times, mind you, and open the door with my code. “Jeff! Where are you?” “Miles, you’re home!" I glare at my boyfriend and say, “Why did a pumpkin god throw up in our garden?” “Because it’s almost Halloween, baby?” He tries to kiss him, but I refuse to give into his seductive shenanigans. “But why are there about a million?” He blushes fiercely…

Where: Reifel Bird Sanctuary, Centennial Beach (Delta), Tlahutum Regional Park (Coquitlam)Weather: Mostly sunny, 18–21°C It was my birthday and what better way to celebrate than going out and getting lightly sun burnt while watching freaky insects and pooping birds? Reifel Bird Sanctuary The main pond at Reifel. We started at Reifel and were immediately rewarded with multiple Anna’s Hummingbirds darting to and fro around the feeders, which were bathed in very nice sunlight. There was also a…

Go, you Huskies! It's not a lie... it's a gift for fiction. For all of his foibles, Mamet can write dialogue like no one else, and the chance to hear his words in the trappings of a sort of proto-Hail, Caesar! — a film about filmmaking — is too good an opportunity to pass up. This movie is cynical and odd. It contains a bunch of great writing, delivered by horrible people, portrayed by actors you are excited to see; the net effect is a film that you feel slightly more rotten for having seen.…

A few weeks ago TypeSafe released Jev, and their demo of Jev playing Doom in real-time got a lot of excitement. Their argument is that chat models are great at conversation while still being awkward at doing real world tasks which often involve deciding things. Jev is a hosted classifier model which takes unstructured state as input and produces typed probabilistic decisions in a single pass. And what the Doom demo illustrates is that the model is able to do this reliably under a few hundred…

Europe is building a new bridge for sovereign debt financing. Pontes links the Euro system’s existing settlement architecture to permissioned tokenized markets. Matt Dines shows how Pontes may turn TARGET balances into new financing capacity for government debt.

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Yesterday, I cycled over Tower Bridge to join the happy throng at Surrey Docks Farm in Rotherhithe where Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project have installed three new mosaics. More than fifty people were involved in the creation of these mosaics, which took many months, and all their initials are included in the borders. Tessa explained to me that the inspiration came from medieval Italian floor mosaics which illustrate agricultural tasks through the seasons. When she showed her designs to the…

Wanted to try Mitas Coffee but wanted to have Satoshi along with me.The reason is that this coffee shop is cashless, and I have a rule about using my credit card in JapanI only use my credit card when my bill is 1000 yen or higherSo just to buy a coffee is a no go for meI think they first started as a coffee truck...Their menu says their coffees are pour over, but they actually had the ones we

Book 33 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. I have continued my read through of all the currently published books in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman and have recently finished the 5th book in the series, The Butcher’s Masquerade (2025)! The book continues Carl and his sassy talking cat Princess Donut as they continue to fight their way down…

À propos the previous post, wanted to share a 2019 article by Gregory Travis about the two Boeing 737 Max disasters that shook the world in late 2018 and early 2019. It’s titled How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer, and I found it fascinating, well-written, and filled with great details. The Max variant of the 737 was redesigned to allow larger, more efficient engines, but this made it less predictable, which the company decided to paper over in software: The airframe,…

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Where's the Good Beer Guide update, you may be asking. My early copy was lost in the post so here we are on publication day and I still haven't seen it. Hmph!!Anyway, off to St Helens today to mop up a few odds and ends, starting in the Royal Tavern:(Due to a camera malfunction I didn't get a picture today, this one is from 2021.)This is a plain comfortable boozer and it was ticking over well at two on a Thursday. I enjoyed my first Carling of the day, costing £4.10.A quick scan of the glasses…