If you have ESPN or ABC and have even a little interest in sports, I highly recommend checking out the Pro Lacrosse Championship game starting right now.

I flipped my development environment to beta Xcode in prep for iOS 27 so Canonical will stay in beta for now, but the TestFlight remains open for any fellow movie lovers looking to rate all these summer releases! Details at

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Create your definitive list of movies one matchup at a time.

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Sometimes love is not sending your partner a post they will adore because they are next to you sleeping in and you know your message will buzz their wrist and wake them up.

If you're in the Bay Area and want to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm, Regal finally added a bunch of late August / early Sept showings. I'll be at the Dublin, CA location the morning of 8/27 before I head to the SF Pen Show!

Today's Apple Upgrade launch is a great reminder that profits will continue to outweigh what's best for the customer. We don't have to accept a world where all of our technology and services are merely rented vs owned. I know the FOMO is tough but it is also an unslakable thirst. Be strong.

One of the reasons I made Canonical is to make me answer obscure comparisons of movies from different genres just like this.

1. You lost your remote 2. You're already paying for Apple TV & want to amortize the cost 3. You've often wished there was a seniors tour, but for soccer players 4. You're plagued by the question "Whatever happened to the Tampa Bay Mutiny" 5. You enjoy pyramid schemes masquerading as sports leagues

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social If he's not already on the list, I would like to nominate Toby Huss as an Elevator.

The latest build of Canonical for iOS went out this morning and I think we are close to initial release. The macOS build is in review, and I'm very happy with the Mac native look and feel it includes. TestFlight is still open:

@atp.fm Thanks for the great Mac-assed conversation. I just used the transcript of the episode to develop a new reference file for Claude Code to apply these principles to my projects.

@liss.bsky.social I'm not sure about the etiquette on this, but I included an "Open in Callsheet" button in my movie rankings app Canonical (currently in beta) since I'm a big fan of your app and it provides detail outside my scope. If that's not cool, please let me know and I'll remove asap.

One of my favorite things about Canonical are the serendipitous moments when two posters for very different movies line up like this in a ranking matchup.

Ok folks, here we go. If you like movies and you'd like to test my new app Canonical to build your personal list of top movies through a series of head-to-head matchups, follow the link to join my TestFlight beta. iOS 26 required, currently runs on iPhone and iPad.

I can't say anything more eloquent about Om as a person but I can add a non-tech perspective. His appreciation for fine detail and beauty spanned many domains, and I encourage anyone to read his thoughts on fountain pens for a glimpse of that. om.co/category/life-as-an-adv...

Merlin Mann@hotdogsladies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Om Malik was such a naturally nice person. Just a deeply nice person. daringfireball.net/2026/06/om

For over 10 years I've maintained this is the greatest podcast ad of all time. The episode (182: House Trotter) as a whole is such I delight I created a separate list in my podcast player called "Permanent Keepers" and I relisten annually in early December to celebrate.

Merlin Mann@hotdogsladies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

RODERICK: …and, then, right after I quit drinking I got scabies… MERLIN: And, just to be clear, that is not a Casper mattress? RODERICK: No! This is the mattress I bought out of a shipping container. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaWf...

I'm close to launching a TestFlight app I've been working on to scratch my own itch: ranking the movies I've seen in one Canonical list. There are others out there, but nothing that's quite right and keeps all data private. Watch this space if that sounds interesting.

My feelings about every identity/age verification law currently in flight in state legislatures across the country. tech.lgbt/@somebody/116467097...

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A classic.

Quiznos Spongmonkeys We Love The Subs ad

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Got the initial version of the site up and running today, my first experiment with cloudflare and I'm pretty happy with v1

Trying something new, this is only a test.