John Gruber
@gruber.foo
I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Some bad blood. Some former high-level Apple executives putting a team of ex-Apple engineers and designers together to take on the iPhone. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. daringfireball.net/2026/07/mo...
Mornings in Cupertino Have the Aroma of Napalm Once Again
I think maybe John Ternus is more of a “*Hey, what* would *Steve have done here?*” kind of guy. What would Steve Jobs do with this OpenAI situation? He’d go to war.
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I am very late to this wonderful @gruber.foo post about Om Malik, who always struck me as someone I would have enjoyed knowing. Perhaps you, too, missed it a few weeks ago; if so, it is well worth a few minutes of your time: daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
Om
This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.
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What gave Tim Cook's privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn't just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn't have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn't show you ads in 2014. daringfireball.net/2026/07/te...
John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
What gave Tim Cook’s privacy letter heft in 2014 wasn’t just the clarity of its plain language, but the fact that you didn’t have to take his word for it that the ads Apple showed you respected your privacy, because Apple didn’t show you ads in 2014.
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Now that the US team has been knocked out, I need a new team to root for in the World Cup. I don't want my heart broken so I'll pick a team that never disappoints. I'm rooting for England.
“It's like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world's biggest hammer manufacturer.” daringfireball.net/2026/07/clau...
Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out t...
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This part stuck out to me: “He had kind words to offer everyone because he had a gift for recognizing good things about everyone.” This is how I first met Om in 2013
All they need to do to fix headlines like this one is change "peace deal" to "supposed peace deal". It's like believing the kid saw a wolf after four consecutive months of endless false alarms. apple.news/ALqQpnvdrQTmR7SojU...
Tanker struck in Hormuz as Iran, US trade attacks in worst escalation since peace deal — Reuters
A tanker reported being struck by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, Britain's maritime security agency said, after the United States and Iran each launched strikes in the worst escalation since they signed an interim peace deal.
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Tracy Morgan: "New York City that's where King King died... and we told Godzilla you next motherf*cker. You, the three headed monster, the flying turtle, all y'all can all get it."
Winning a championship someday will cure all, but after last night, Wemby wears a big "choker" sign around his neck. Put him under pressure and he folds (or flops).
"Ceasefires" have been enshittified. apple.news/Ax4EQFLmTSISfhQx-6...
Israel strikes in Lebanon despite ceasefire deal — Reuters
Israel will continue to strike Lebanon for the time being and won't be withdrawing from the south, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday, after Lebanon and Israel agreed to a ceasefire contingent on Hezbollah halting attacks.
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As a tech writer, I’m constantly trying to remember “what’s the earliest iPhone, iPad, Mac, whatever that supports feature X?” “Which devices can handle Apple Intelligence?” So I built a site, now launched! glennf.com/applespecs/i... Your feedback welcome (via a form at the bottom of each page).
Apple Specs Database
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The low-hanging fruit is Blanche and maybe half a dozen others involved with the "fund." You campaign on putting them in prison, no one will stop you. "Intent to defraud," "two billion of your money to insurrectionists, crooks..." No one dares. That's how you get people used to the idea.
Question answered: daringfireball.net/2026/05/wh...
What Is a Dickover?
dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.
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Via @gruber.foo this post about a vibe-coded Mac app: daringfireball.net/2026/05/next... Okay, taking as a given that AI is “democratizing creativity” or whatever buzzwords, just for the sake of argument. Just because someone *can* now vibe-code an app, it still not the same. Not at all. 1/
Nextpad++
Nextpad++ feels like a fever dream. Like what Mac apps would be if the Nazis had won WWII.
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In the decades to come, when the Trump era is behind us, it'll be hard to explain to young people that headlines like these made sense in the moment.
"You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would spearhead a severe decline in the design quality of software. But software brain is an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end." daringfireball.net/2026/05/so...
Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice
You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of software as art, as a practice, as a craft. Software brain is purely an obsession with software as a medium in and of itself. A means with no consideration for the end.
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"The key to understanding this is that Meta runs a criminal enterprise. Most of the organized crimes Meta commits aren’t crimes against the legal code (although some are), but rather crimes against public perception and human decency." go read @gruber.foo: daringfireball.net/2026/05/crim...
Crimes Against Decency Need as Much Cover-Up as Crimes Against the Law
There is no point getting any more outraged or disgusted at Meta for firing the Kenyan contractors who exposed the privacy fiasco of AI Glasses than you already were in the first place. They had to fi...
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"No one could stop the US raiding modern shipping, but it doesn't because it knows it benefits far more from unmolested maritime trade than any potential piracy spoils", used to be my go-to example illustrating how international law works. Will need to update with a "fucking idiot" caveat.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3mo agoTrump on US seizing ships: "It’s a very profitable business. We’re like pirates."
This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3mo agolol yeah girl, how did you think health insurance companies worked?
OK, now I'm obsessing. This is at least 28 more seconds than I wanted to spend on this image.
