Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
How to Export a Mac .icon File With the Proper Margins
Tahoe Mac app icons are supposed to have margins/padding so that there’s empty space around the edge of the squircle. The opaque pixels don’t touch the edge of the canvas. Icon Composer and Xcode handle this detail for you. You design your icon without having to worry about the margin, and Xcode automatically adds it […]
Sora App
OpenAI: Today we’re releasing Sora 2, our flagship video and audio generation model.The original Sora model from February 2024 was in many ways the GPT‑1 moment for video—the first time video generation started to seem like it was working, and simple behaviors like object permanence emerged from scaling up pre-training compute. Since then, the Sora […]
Nano Banana
Wikipedia: Nano Banana (officially Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is an artificial intelligence image generating and editing tool created by Google. “Nano Banana” was the codename used on LMArena while the model was undergoing pre-release testing, allowing the community to evaluate its performance on real-world prompts without knowing its identity. When the company publicly released it […]
Meta Ray-Ban Display
Meta (Hacker News): The wait is over. Meta Ray-Ban Display hits shelves in the US today! Priced at $799 USD, which includes the Meta Neural Band, these breakthrough AI glasses let you interact with digital content while staying fully present in the physical world. […]Today at Connect, Mark Zuckerberg debuted the next exciting evolution of […]
Folder Quick Look
New Mac app from Martin Lexow, the developer behind App Ahead (which offers a slew of good and intriguing Mac apps):
Preview folder and archive contents (ZIP, RAR, and more) instantly in macOS Quick Look. Just select a folder and press the Space bar.
It’s just that simple. Install it from the Mac App Store — free of charge — and you can Quick Look inside archives and folders. Looks, feels, and works like a feature that ought to be built into the Finder itself. Cool.