Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Craig Hockenberry • Iconfactory
Tot, your tiny text companion, is still tiny. But now, it’s even more mighty.
That’s because we’ve just released Tot 2, with tons of great improvements to let you collect text on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
Congratulations to my friends at Iconfactory! 🥳
I’m using Tot 2 — as usual, on my iPhone — to compose this post. It’s still an amazing little text editor. It’s reliable, easy to use, and fast. I’ve used it for a few years to compose almost all my blog posts on this site. Highly recommended. ❤️
So when a friend phoned recently to tell me that my new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, was 1 on the Times nonfiction bestseller list (it’s actually right there at the top in this Sunday’s print edition!) I couldn’t believe it.
Robert Reich is a wonderful man and I’m very happy for him! 🥳
I don’t think the old icons for these apps from MacOS 15 were particularly good — Apple has mostly lost its “iconslook cool” game. But the new ones in MacOS 26 Tahoe are objectively terrible.
Tahoe and all the iOS derived OS’es has been universally panned since WWDC. I’ve been using it on my iPhone 11 to test some new features for Stream and I’m getting close to putting it on my daily driver.
It’s not been a horrible experience and I’ve run into some “surprise and delight” moments.
I’m planning on Stream supporting it day one in the most minimal of ways. A basic recompile to pick up the new look and I’ve added a feature I’ve wanted for a very long time.
The Cadillac F1 Team announced on Tuesday that it signed Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez to race for the team in 2026. The American team’s debut lineup will have a combined 26 seasons of F1 experience and will likely be the oldest driver pairing on the grid. Both drivers will be 36 years old when next season begins in Australia.
I like this combination of drivers! I kind of wish they’d picked up Danny Ricciardo, but I really do like this pairing.
Here’s hoping Cadillac have a great 2026 season! 🥂
We view browser-using AI as inevitable: so much work happens in browsers that giving Claude the ability to see what you’re looking at, click buttons, and fill forms will make it substantially more useful.
I’m not a fan of the current tracking done by some browsers and websites and this sounds very big brother to me. I think I’ll nope out of any browser AI extensions. Good thing I prefer Safari. At least it doesn’t have an AI piece, yet. 😂
Jennifer Ouellette • Ars Technica
The findings confirm that, while Twitter was once the platform of choice for a majority of science communicators, those same people have since abandoned it in droves. And of the alternatives available, Bluesky seems to be their new platform of choice.
It’s a shame more folks didn’t discover how amazing Mastodon really is. It’s not governed by just one company on one big server instance. You have the freedom to start your own! It’s open, no ads, and you can manage it the way you want.
Mr. Shiffman could have started his own scientist based Mastodon Instance and made signing up for it only available to scientists. That’s a good thing! It would still be a part of the overall Mastodon community.
Over the past few months, Github has been getting slower and slower on Safari. It has now reached a point where it is unusable.
I hadn’t really noticed this since I’ve been using Chrome for a client project but it was recently fixed so I’m hoping we’ll see it in all the 26 versions of Apple OS’es.
Is wonder if it’s fixed in Purple Safari?
Jason Torchinsky • The Autopian
I say this because it’s a no-joke track monster that ran the Nürburgring in 6:52 and yet it’s also shockingly comfortable for a normal, multi-hour road trip that won’t leave you feeling like you spent five hours in an industrial washing machine when it’s done. I’m not speculating when I say this, either: I know from experience, because I rode in Autopian co-Founder Beau Boeckman’s brand-new Mustang GTD as we drove over 300 miles from Los Angeles to Monterey.
I need to go checkout the video of their trip. I’d really like to see more of the car. It sounds like they had a really good time.
Do you think Mr. Boeckman would let me drive it from California to Virginia and back? That would be incredible! 🏎️
How did you think people would react when you fired the government’s most talented designers and engineers from 18f and the United States Digital Service and then tried to roll out this shit?
The folks around Marmalade Messiah all seem to be really bad at whatever they do. They’re all just a bunch of grifters.
He’s hoping we’re able to get rid of this administration next cycle and we get the 18f team back together. 🤞🏼
