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The new "command line" is insanely popular
MacKenzie Sigalos: OpenAI: ChatGPT Set to Hit 700 Million Weekly Active Users This WeekOpenAI is set to hit 700 million weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500...
People really do change
Annie from annie's blog: People Can ChangeCalcification occurs when you don’t pay attention. The tissues harden in place. Things get dry and brittle. Another word for calcification is death. Change...
An accessibility angle for face computers
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: These Smart Glasses Use AI to Help Low-Vision UsersEnvision says the camera-equipped Ally Solos Glasses can read and translate text, describe surroundings, search the...
I use AI agents to code, but I’m not a “vibe coder”
Simon Willison: Coding agents require skilled operatorsWithout the skilled individual, the “agent” is useless. It may as well not exist.This is such a great observation. There’s a negative connotation to...
My review of the Meta Ray-Bans
Let’s see what all the hype is about.
Apple is already shipping a Mac with touch, they just call it "iPad"
Craig Grannell writing for Wired: Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. GoodFor years, Apple treated the idea of windows on the iPad as sacrilege. But with iPadOS...
The cost to run LLM-powered apps is getting out of hand
Ethan Ding: Tokens Are Getting More Expensiveevery ai company knows usage-based pricing would save them. they also know it would kill them. while you're being responsible with $0.01/1k tokens, your...
iOS 26's new ringtone is an absolute banger
They went hard on this one.
A couple videos about bad science
As luck would have it, I watched two videos today about how exceptionally widely listened to people got scientific facts very wrong. Here's Hank Green explaining a lot of good...
Don't learn the wrong lesson
Theo is an interesting guy who's found himself as a bit of an AI YouTuber over the last year (used to talk about JavaScript stuff), and he was invited by...
I paid $35 for this study about "AI" to understand what the hell it meant
This study published yesterday by The Lancet is getting linked to all over the place with one takeaway: AI makes you dumb because as The Verge's headline says, "Some doctors...
"Musk failed to provide evidence to support his claim"
Joe Rossignol on MacRumors: Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over App Store Rankings"Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to...
Tim Cook "had" to do this
I was listening to this week’s Upgrade and the topic of Tim Cook’s gifting of a trophy to Donald Trump came up. The short version is that both Myke and...
Digital Foundry has gone indie
Just over one year after IGN acquired Digital Foundry, the team has gone indie for the first time since their debut in 2007. I'm so happy for the team as...
More Birchtree, less money
Hello! I've been running More Birchtree for a year and a half now, it's been pretty successful, and it's gotten me to write more and hit publish on some pieces...
"No" part 2
Yesterday I wrote about how macOS and iPadOS apps are really merging into one unified experience. That was a quick post, but I wanted to hit on this again with...
"These people do it naturally"
I've been thinking quite a bit recently about how the current state of the United States compares to other times in our history, and I came across this quote from...