Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
It’s been a big week for the Apple ecosystem. All the new Apple gizmos and gadgets were announced on Tuesday. I no longer get excited about these events, especially since they became highly produced marketing commercials. But, there was one thing I really liked: the orange iPhone 17 Pro.
Stream was approved earlier this week and I’ll be pushing the button to release it sometime Monday night, I think, because iOS 26 is supposed to hit the streets on Tuesday.
Like all of my releases, this one is small. One new feature, a small tweak for the UI on iOS 26, and some bug fixes. I hope folks enjoy it.
Here are some links and bad opinions. Enjoy!
Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, the most powerful and advanced Pro models ever
The color of the week was definitely orange! My Mastodon timeline was full of orange iPhone 17 Pro orders.
I don’t update often, I went from an iPhone 11 to an iPhone 16 last year, but if I were to upgraded this year that orange Pro would be the one. I’m still tempted but can’t justify it. 😍
Imagine a web page that loads instantly, deploys effortlessly, and never needs a security update. I’m using pure HTML and CSS to accomplish all that and to build things in a fraction of the time.
This website loads so fast! We’ve all become accustomed to slow loading CMS based blogs like WordPress or Ghost or add your favorite blog here. I don’t mean to pick on those amazing products but raw HTML is blazing fast and I love it!
Ashley Belanger • Ars Technica
Free for any publisher to use starting today, the RSL standard is an open, decentralized protocol that makes clear to AI crawlers and agents the terms for licensing, usage, and compensation of any content used to train AI, a press release noted.
The RSL Collective has put together a very low tech solution to the problem of AI servers hammering websites and taking content for training their LLMs. I like this idea, a lot, and will be deploying it to this blog. Going forward all transactions here will cost an AI company a hojillion dollars.
No, it’ll remain free because nobody reads it anyway and if you want to train your AI on my crappy writing, good luck! 🤣
Mastodon, an open source, decentralized alternative to X, is rolling out a somewhat controversial feature by adding quote posts, which will launch next week. The feature, which allows a user to quote someone else’s post and reshare it with their own response or commentary, has contributed to a culture of “dunking” on X, where users often deride other people by responding with snark or insulting humor.
To address this concern, Mastodon says it’s implementing quote posts with safety controls.
I’m looking forward to trying this out but I wonder how long it’ll be before all the amazing Mastodon apps are updated to support it?
Go Bullitt if you must, but I’d rather see this potentially handsome 1968 Mustang Fastback restored to its showroom glory.
What a beautiful car! I always thought I’d retire and have a project like rebuilding a car. I don’t think that’ll happen but I still like the thought of it. Instead I’ll probably sit behind a keyboard and continue coding until I die. 😄
A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows uses by default.
I’m surprised Microsoft would allow something like this to go on. Here we have Apple doing everything they can think of to lock down their OS’es and Microsoft’s is vulnerable. 😲
There are two CMS choices that I think are particularly well-suited for newsrooms. The first, Ghost, is perfect for smaller newsrooms with a newsletter-centric distribution model. (I love Ghost’s elegance and use it for my own site and newsletter.) The other is, indeed, WordPress.
If you’re part of a small or large newspaper, Ben has a recommendation just for you.
Even my old hometown newspaper, The Sun-Gazette, uses WordPress. 📰
For Apple, improving memory safety is a broad effort that includes developing with safe languages and deploying mitigations at scale.
If you’re a nerdy computering type person who writes software this article is a really good read.
Apple has gone to great lengths to make the OS’es even more secure and that includes hardening their developer tools!🛠️
Henry Cavill has sustained an injury while preparing for the Amazon MGM remake of “Highlander,” which will delay production on the Chad Stahelski film likely until early 2026, Variety has confirmed.
I ask you, how can Superman get injured?🦸🏻♂️
Here’s hoping Mr. Cavill recovers quickly and the film is a big hit.
Do it justice MGM!🎬
“There’s 1,400 employees at Opendoor. I don’t know what most of them do. We don’t need more than 200 of them,” Rabois told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Friday.
What a crazy statement. I’ll bet the employees are putting out feelers into the world to get ahead of the inevitable.
Jobs are so hard to come by today.😞
