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Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending July 28, 2026

Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending July 21, 2026

Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending July 7, 2026

Making A Custom Floating Scriptable Button Panel Using A Mac Accessibility Feature

Jeremy White at WIRED posted a handy tip the other day . iOS contains an Accessibility feature that replaces the iPhone’s stock Springboard launcher with a simple grid of big app icons. Assistive Access was introduced in iOS 17. It strips out widgets and custom icon layouts in favor

Is This A Nerd Which I See Before Me?

Here's one of my favorite tee shirts. It's one of the all-stars of my regular laundry rotation. It's got authenticity and smart, classic style. It's also black, which hides stains very well. The color hides my gut less successfully, but better

Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending June 30, 2026

Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending on June 23, 2026

Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending June 16, 2026

AR Glasses, Missed Buses, And Uncanny Valleys

Have you ever been in a city, kind of late at night, and you're waiting at a bus stop or a subway platform for your ride home? And maybe you're not 100% familiar with the transportation system and maybe you're a little drunk on

Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending June 9, 2026

Did Apple tease the iPholde during the WWDC keynote?

Good afternoon, fellow sensation-seekers! I've got a couple of WWDC pieces here on the workbench alongside the big breakdown to come (either "the large examination of the keynote and other announcements, which will require some fact-checking and Deeper Thought" or "my mental and

WWDC 2026: Filling In The Puzzle (Preview)

My “games” metaphor for WWDC is a jigsaw puzzle, not the traditional bingo card or the modern hotness of a draft . I’m interested in how Apple’s announcements this year will fill in parts of the big picture that I can only really guess at

WWDC: It’s Showtime!

The WWDC keynote is happening less than 24 hours after the Tony Awards. I like this kind of synchronicity. It implies a nonzero chance that God (or whatever) agrees with me that these annual developer keynotes should be viewed through the lens of Showbiz. Historically, the fates of many nominated

48 hours (-ish) later…

…and the new site is running swimmingly. I've been too busy since the Hard Launch to check the stats. But when I published the weekly Commotion of Apple News Links, Ghost (as usual) confirmed that it had been posted on the site and emailed to [X]-many

Your Commotion of Apple News Links for the week ending June 2, 2026

It's the week of calm before WWDC. If I had a wicker chair in need of recaning, this would be a good time to tackle that project. Actually, I do. But I don't know how to recane a chair. I checked out a couple of YouTube