Shortcuts in macOS Tahoe

Jason Snell: In macOS 26, there’s a built-in clipboard manager that can be accessed from the Spotlight interface, and a new set of Shortcuts triggers let you run automations when events occur on your Mac or at specific intervals. Simon B. Støvring: …

Weak Ubiquitous Linking in Apple’s Apps

Luc Beaudoin: If you are like many knowledge workers, on a typical day you access over dozens of information resources. If you have to use search or navigate through folders to get to them, you’re taking a big hit on productivity. It’s much easier t…

Rare Earth Magnet Maker MP Materials Is Having a Big Week

More on Commodore, Apple, and the Inchoate Personal Computer Era

More on Commodore, Apple, and the Inchoate Personal Computer Era

Drew Saur’s Ode to the Commodore 64

Drew Saur’s Ode to the Commodore 64

Drew Saur’s Ode to the Commodore 64

[Sponsor] WorkOS: Scalable, Secure Authentication

Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA

Jess Weatherbed: It’s been 16 months since a DMA ruling allowed iOS developers like Google and Mozilla to use their own browser engines in the EU, so… where are they? Open Web Advocacy (Hacker News): Apple’s compliance did not start well. Faced with…

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac Mini’s Storage for Half the Price

Jeff Geerling (via Hacker News): I documented the entire upgrade—along with taking my old M4 mini 1TB SSD and putting it in my Dad’s M4 mini—in today’s video[…][…]Speaking of standards… you have to do a full DFU (Device Firmware Update) restore, bec…

utiluti 1.2

Armin Briegel: I have also released an update to my CLI tool to set default apps for urls and file types (uniform type identifiers/UTI). utiluti 1.2 adds a manage verb which can read a list of default app assignments from plist files or a configurat…

Gatekeeper Change in macOS 15.4

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): On macOS 15.2, I was able to drag the exact same downloaded WebP file to TextEdit and BBEdit with no Gatekeeper alert! Thus, it appears that the Reddit poster was correct, and something did change recently.[…]I perused the u…

The Party of ‘Free Speech’

‘Elon Musk Gives Himself Another Handshake’

‘Elon Musk Gives Himself Another Handshake’

Lee Elia, Former Major League Manager, Dies at 87

Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch

Experts Said This Was a Damn Clever Post by Jason Kottke

Reborn Commodore Is Taking Pre-Orders for New Commodore 64 Models

Google “Acquires” Windsurf

Katie Roof and Rachel Metz (in May, via Hacker News): OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the ChatG…