Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI
Ming-Chi Kuo: A recent media report claims that tight DRAM suppl... My industry checks suggest that Apple has indeed scaled back its hardware shipment plans this year due to memory shortages. Ten years ago, if you wanted to buy the new iPhone and get it on release day, you
Max Kan: Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking For all intents and purposes, we believe DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab. I think this is being a bit overdramatic. It is true that there's been a good amount of executive shakeup and that the company has
Samsung's new foldable is an early look at what Apple will be announcing next month.
Quick Reviews 3 is out now and is an update about giving the people what they've wanted. iCloud sync This was going to be in v2, but I never really got it working (hangover from my bad data model choices in the v1 app), so I'm
Chapterize 2.1 is out today, and I know 2.0 just came out, but there are a couple things here I really wanted to get out. iCloud sync iCloud sync is the headliner, in my opinion, and it's changed how I use my own app. I tend
Quick Reads for iPhone and iPad 1.0.4 is rolling out on the App Store now, and I didn't bump the version that much, but this is the biggest update yet for iPad users. The iPad app got some serious love Truthfully, I don't use
I've been shipping a steady stream of updates to Quick Reads over the past couple months, and while each one got a line in the changelog , I figured it was worth rounding up the highlights in one place. Search is dramatically better Since launch, search was a simple
No One's Happy: Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict. The third-party software embedded in these apps frequently transmits your location,
Sean Goedecke: LLMs reward expertise the idea here — that domain knowledge makes you better at using LLMs — is something I’ve also experienced in my own work. If you have a good theory of your codebase, you can push the LLM much harder than if you have
I don't obsessively check the metrics on this blog, but I do every now and again just to see how things are generally going. I don't run ads anymore, so page views don't really equate to much more than a vanity metric. But hey,
Linus Torvalds (the creator or Linux) was spitting fire in a post to the Linux kernel mailing list just a few weeks ago : Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. And:
Just for fun, I've use quicksubs ' benchmark mode to see how fast the 4 Macs I have access to are and how they heat up when under load. M2 Mac mini A18 Pro MacBook Neo M4 Pro MacBook Pro (higher core version) M5 Pro MacBook Pro (higher
Josh Ginter: The Titanium Milanese Loop Apple Watch Band Review: The Best Apple Watch Band Ever Made At $200 USD it's expensive for a band, but it's a buy-once purchase that kills any desire to own another. Best Apple Watch band ever made. This is
M.G. Siegler: What if Anthropic is Right? Certainly part of it is just the shift from underdog to presumed leader in AI. But a lot of it has to do with the way Anthropic carries itself as a company. Whereas the strong stances and rhetoric were once seen as