Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Giving Up on the Vision Pro

Jason Snell: From the first time I put on the Vision Pro, I never could get Optic ID to work quite right. I couldn’t set it up to work for the longest time, and when I finally did, using it to unlock the device only worked sporadically. […] Worse, though, is that I also wasn’t […]

External Purchase Fee Stay Reversed

Tim Hardwick: On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision letting Apple keep its current zero-fee link-out commission structure in place while it appeals to the Supreme Court. The reversal means Apple now has to return to a lower court to work out what fees it can charge developers who steer […]

I’m Starting to Wonder What They’re Smoking Over There at MacRumors

600 words from Hartley Charlton at MacRumors expounding upon a wacko post on Weibo suggesting that Apple is debating dropping MagSafe from all iPhones (which post, translated to English, is only 70-some words). Given that last year’s 16e didn’t have MagSafe and this year’s 17e does, you don’t need a pseudonymous Chinese weatherman to know which way the MagSafe wind is blowing in Cupertino.

New Banksy in London

Brilliant statue, hilarious intro video. The greatest artist of our age.

Retcon 1.6

Nathan Manceaux-Panot: Cut, copy and paste commits between branches Copy a commit with ⌘C, then paste it on another branch with ⌘V Or, cut the commit with ⌘X, to move rather than duplicate Paste above the selection using ⇧⌘V, or using the context menu Paste hashes from other apps to insert commits Or, directly drag […]