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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 was that there was really only one major thing Apple wanted to talk about: “Apple Intelligence”. Apple divided their keynote into three sections: platform improvements, trust and safety, and Apple Intelligence. The Apple Intelligence part clocked in at over 40 minutes, or around 53% of the total…

I’ve been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited for WWDC. Apple’s software story is in rough shape, and I worry that this year’s event won’t do much to help. Perhaps it’ll be the beginning of an upswing, but we’ve got quite a way to go. Before looking forward, let’s look back. WWDC 2024 focused on a number of “Apple Intelligence” features that never materialized. Which is probably for the best because the features that did ship that…

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 torrent of “AI slop” reports. In the last few months, the reports have become almost all legitimate, but the pace hasn’t changed. Today, Stenberg posted about his recent experience with Claude Mythos. In my piece yesterday, I said Mythos’ positioning was at least a bit of a marketing move. The model is…

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. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effectively the same as translating between English and Python for these systems. As LLMs improve, we’re also finding that there’s little difference between “help me fix mistakes in this document”, and “find the flaws in this codebase”. LLMs are now…

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. But maybe not for the reasons you’d think. First off, let’s look at GitHub. It launched in 2008 and was acquired by Microsoft in late 2018. For most of its life, it was boring infrastructure in the best possible way. More recently it’s been up and down like a yo-yo. The official status page currently…

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 attempt to explain why so many Silicon Valley folks are head over heels about AI, at the same time that most normal people hate it. The idea really resonates with me. It’s worth checking out the post. There’s a 15 minute YouTube video, a podcast version, and a written piece on the page. But here’s…

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 Head of Growth, Amol Avasare, said this was caused by a “test” gone slightly wrong. Apparently only 2% of users were supposed to see the new pricing page. But this suggests Anthropic is considering raising rates substantially for code generation product. A day earlier, GitHub announced that its…

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 numbers. When Tim Cook steps down from his CEO position in September of this year, he will have had the longest stint as Apple’s CEO. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and was the Chairman of the Board for a time, but never held the title of CEO until after his ouster and return in 1997. Even then, he…

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”. Recently, there’s been a lot of consternation around bike lanes. I won’t go deep into the lore here, but we’ve elected some people who seem to value unsustainable suburban sprawl over having a nice downtown. But there have been some wins. One of them is the

I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one.

Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations.

I wrote yesterday about some visual changes I’d noticed in Apple’s 26.4 series of OSs. Today I noticed that I’d missed a couple of real doozies, both related to the new mega-corners in macOS Tahoe.

Apple recently updated all their OSs to 26.4, and there were plenty of Liquid Glass updates. Most of them of the better! Here are some of the changes that stood out to me, as well as a bit more grumbling about Liquid Glass in general (sorry).

When Apple released its new operating systems last year, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade. I had initially come away from WWDC 2025 excited about the new Liquid Glass design language, but then became grumpy. The visual effects looked nice to me, but they functioned more poorly than I’d hoped. Well, I’ve finally updated all my devices and I have some feelings.