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  • Unread 5.0

    John Brayton: Unread 5.0 is available now from the App Store. This update adds these improvements and more: Improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails Syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux The ability to quickly mark old articles read I’m a NetNewsWire man personally, but I’ve long admired Unread as a different, very…

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  • Where Are the AI-Generated Killer Apps?

    Paul Ford, writing for The New York Times (gift link): For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to…

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  • iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro: Flagships, compared

    The iPhone 18 Pro has arrived with a new chip and camera refinements over the iPhone 17 Pro. Here’s how Apple’s latest Pro compares against last year’s model, now with benchmarks. iPhone 18 Pro [left] vs iPhone 17 Pro [right] Right on schedule, Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro at its fall event as the…

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  • Samsung Galaxy S26 FE’s India price leaks

    The Samsung Galaxy S26 FE, unveiled last month, went on sale in select markets on September 4. India wasn’t part of the first wave of rollout, as sales are scheduled to begin there on September 18. That may be why Samsung didn’t reveal the Galaxy S26 FE’s India price. However, if a new leak is…

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  • Retreating to Safety

    Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller himself took a huge risk in doing this.…

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  • A letter to John Ternus

    As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers. That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today. Immense scale, soulless optimization, and an insatiable thirst for growth dominate its behavior and discourse,…

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  • Unforgetful

    I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed to try harder, and wasn’t living up to my potential. I’ll be working on the resulting shame and anxiety for the rest of my…

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