🆕📝 ADK Climb Club is now web-friendly!

We’ve broken out of the silo.

Sorry for gumming up your timeline with a bunch of posts early this morning. An automation ran wild. It finally decided to start working in the middle of the night while I slept and reposted a year’s worth of stuff from @adkclimb.club. 🙄 But I think I’ve got it all cleaned up and fixed now.

Apple News Today shared that Trump lost his home district to a democrat last night (🥳):

And Mar-a-Lago is turning blue.

Last night, Democrat Emily Gregory won a special state house election in a Palm Beach district, which includes Trump’s Florida home.

It was Gregory’s first time running for office against Republican John Maples, a former council member who first received Trump’s complete and total endorsement in January. Trump voted via mail-in ballot, a method he has often criticized.

Of course he used a mail-in ballot. This fucking guy. 🙄 🇺🇸

Doing whatever it takes to ensure a great experience, that’s how we roll! 🙌

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PSA for anyone annoyed by iOS 26.4 burying app updates a level deeper in the App Store: A long press on the App Store’s icon gets you a shortcut there.

An iPhone search screen is shown with app icons like Apple Store, App Store, Calendar, and Maps at the top. Below, there are various suggestions and apps like Safari and WhatsApp. A pop-up menu is open with options such as Search, Redeem, Updates, Purchased, Add to Home Screen, and Require Face ID. The time displayed is 9:30, and there are icons for battery, Wi-Fi, and cellular signal.

We can keep updating manually like the sickos we are. John Gruber gets it:

I update apps manually, because I like reading release notes from developers who take the time to document changes, and I also like reading “Bug fixes and performance improvements” over and over and over again from developers who do not.

But is Sora dead?

Richard Lawler at The Verge writes that OpenAI’s video generation platform is getting shuttered and that their billion-dollar deal with Disney will go with it.

Yet, Matt Birchler made an astute observation on the announcement:

Of note, the first version of this post said Sora was shutting down, then they edited it to say the Sora app was shutting down. Take that for what you will in regards to their video plans.

Personally, I suspect that while its app is getting canned, Sora’s capabilities will live on in ChatGPT, or whatever ‘superapp’ OpenAI is reportedly developing.

The Verge: ‘Apple is testing a standalone app for its overhauled Siri’

The app will help finally give Siri conversational capabilities through a chat-like format that looks similar to the interface Apple Messages uses. The app will provide users with a dedicated place to find their previous interactions with Siri, search through past chats, start new chats, switch between voice and text modes, and upload documents and photos to be analyzed.

This is a good direction, but I also think it would be kind of nice to have a chat with AI Siri right in Messages.

Ads in Apple Maps…thanks, I hate it.

The image shows two smartphones displaying Apple Maps interface. The left screen shows a search bar with categories like Lunch, Coffee, and Hotels. It lists recent searches for “Restaurants” and “Hotels” in Nashville, along with suggested places like “The Honeyed Hen” and “Neon Pie Parlor.” The right screen shows a map with restaurant locations marked and a card for “The Honeyed Hen,” including details like distance, rating, and hours.

For All Mankind is getting one final season, its sixth. It’s one of my all-time favorite shows, and certainly one of Apple TV’s crown jewels. I’m both surprised and a little sad. I’d hoped it would continue on in perpetuity, but all things come to an end.

Season five starts this Friday, March 27. 📺

Did Susan Prescott get a job change at Apple between yesterday and today? She was quoted in press releases on both days, and was “vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations” in the WWDC post and “vice president of Enterprise and Education Marketing” in the Apple Business one. Quite peculiar.

Started watching: Rooster 📺

We’re caught up now and each of the first three episodes have been laugh out loud funny! Loving it; can’t wait to see where it goes. Gonna enjoy this one coming out week to week. (Cristle is so weird! 😆)

Just listened to the Cory Doctorow interview on Decoder. It’s quite good. And while I do agree with most everything he says — Cory’s quite persuasive — my main thought throughout the episode was, “Man, this guy can monologue!” 🗣️ 🎧

This year’s WWDC is June 8-12. Usual online-only* format.

I have to say that I really dislike the merged “WW” letter thing they’ve used the last few years. It’s always looked weird and has officially outstayed its welcome. 😛

An iPhone screen displays an announcement for WWDC26 against a blurred multicolor background. The screen shows the text “WWDC26” in large letters, with “A week of technology, creativity, and community” written beneath it. The event dates are June 8–12, 2026. Additional details mention the reveal of the latest Apple tools and frameworks and offer video sessions hosted by Apple engineers and designers. The event is described as free and available online.

*There’s still a limited in-person watch party at Apple Park on June 8.

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#183]

A sonic “whisper,” a custom-built accounting app, a plea for email copies of form submissions, a meditation on attention-stealing objects, a batch of Lil Finder Guy wallpapers, a real LinkedIn-speak translator, and a podcast on a floppy disk.

Sometimes the smaller mountains offer the perfect challenge. Taking @riverdalecs student up Mt. Van Hoevenberg was ideal with the windy and cold conditions. Each kid got to lead the pack, we learned about staying warm in frigid conditions, how to chop steps in icy bits, and experienced gale force winds at the summit — a full-on day for a “low” peak! Olympic-caliber crew; I’d give ‘em gold. 🏔️ 🥇

Group of six hikers pose energetically on a snowy mountain top holding trekking poles surrounded by snow-covered trees and a foggy mountainous background. A person wearing winter gear is using an ice axe to climb a frozen waterfall, with another climber observing beside them in a snowy forest setting. Four people stand in snowfall wearing winter gear smiling and gesturing outside a building labeled “MT VAN HOEVEN” with snow-covered structures in the background.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️🍻

Two people are smiling at a wooden table in a cozy restaurant. One holds a glass with a straw. In the background, other diners sit beneath wall-mounted TV screens.

I’ve been holding out from updating to macOS Tahoe (and iPadOS 26), but they’ve finally got me. Guess what needs the latest update to run all the Studio Display XDR’s features. 🙄 Sorry MacBook Air, I spared you for six months.

I was feeling a little guilty about this splurge until I opened the box. Goddamn, this thing is gorgeous. Very happy to have it for my next decade-plus of display needs. 😍

And thrilled to get rid of the cheap-ass Dell monitor I’ve had since 2017 that’s been flickering for years.

Three-panel image showing the unboxing and setup of a Studio Display XDR. Left panel: A large cardboard box on a wooden floor with two dogs nearby. Middle panel: The Studio Display XDR box positioned in a room, next to a desk and chair. Right panel: The Studio Display XDR set up on a desk with a colorful mouse pad, a keyboard, and additional items like a small clock and a speaker.

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5mac.com: ‘tvOS 26.4 adds powerful new ‘Genius’ feature for Apple TV 4K’

What’s especially helpful is that as you navigate through each recommendation, you’ll see a new row of related titles appear underneath it. So you’re not limited to just the initial batch of recommendations—rather, each featured title unlocks another layer of title-specific recommendations.

Looks pretty nice and easy to understand.

She did it! Three years in the making and after thwarted winter attempts, Karen summited Catamount Mountain to complete her winter round of the @lakeplacid9er challenge! 🥳 🏔️ Fresh snow helped a ton to cover the glare ice underneath, but our spikes were definitely needed from bottom to top. We lucked out with great views, sun, and no wind! The clouds held off until we were descending. Well done, Karen, your joyful outlook made the day great!

Snow-covered rocks form a rugged cliff face bordered by trees under a clear sky suggesting a mountainous winter landscape. A person stands on a snowy mountain ledge smiling in winter gear with snowy trees below and forested mountains in the background under a bright sky. Snow covers the ground and trees, creating a serene winter scene on a mountain slope surrounded by forested hills under a clear blue sky. Animal tracks crossing fresh snow beside thin branches and trees in a forested area. A person holds a sign reading Catamount Mountain 3173 ft #9/9 LP Winter on a snowy mountaintop with trekking poles surrounded by snow-covered trees and distant mountain peaks. Two people are on a snowy mountain one smiling and giving a thumbs-up another holding a sign reading Catamount Mountain 3173 ft 109 LP HMK surrounded by snow and trees. Snow-capped mountain peaks rise serenely under a cloudy sky surrounded by evergreen trees dusted with snow in a tranquil winter landscape. Snow-dusted evergreen trees stand in the foreground overlooking a vast valley and distant rolling hills under a cloudy sky in a winter landscape. Two people smiling stand on a snowy trail surrounded by trees while wearing backpacks and winter gear. The woman wears a pink hat with text Stewart’s Shops.

God help me, I’ve downloaded Xcode and AI-coded myself into an app that actually runs. I didn’t need another project, but this one’s been on my mind for years. 🤖👨‍💻

Manton Reece: ‘Inkwell for Mac’

Last week we shipped Inkwell, our new feed reader for Micro.blog. Today I’m releasing a native Mac app for Inkwell.

I’ve been having fun beta testing this app for Manton. It’s pretty cool when services have both a web app and a native app. Users can use whichever they prefer!

Terry Godier: ‘The Last Quiet Thing’

The tiredness is not a character flaw. The guilt, the sense that you should be handling all of this better, more gracefully, with less friction, that guilt was manufactured. It was placed inside you by an industry that profits from your participation and a wellness culture that profits from your shame.

Both need you to believe the problem is you.

It isn’t.

Evocative writing and superb web design. Definitely read this one on Terry’s website.

(Via Daring Fireball)

The Verge’s review of the M5 MacBook Air offers a great close-up side-by-side view of the Neo’s and Air’s chassis. I quite like the Neo’s more rounded lid compared the Air’s flattened one. 👌

Side-by-side comparison of two laptops in three different views. The first image displays the closed laptops from the side, showing their thickness and ports. The second image shows them open, viewed from the hinge, highlighting the slim design and profiles. The third image is a further pulled-back perspective of the open laptops, emphasizing their screens and keyboards. One laptop is pink, and the other is blue-gray, both placed on a neutral-colored surface with a plain background.

David Sparks is teasing something interesting: ‘Half Your Day Isn’t Your Job’

We sit down intending to do meaningful work and spend the first hour sorting email. We open our task manager and burn twenty minutes reorganizing instead of doing. We have systems. Maybe several. None of them talk to each other, and all of them need feeding.

It’s not the work. It’s the work around the work. I call it the donkey work.

I’ve been building something to fix this. It’s a method for using AI to handle the donkey work so you have more time for everything else. I’ll tell you all about it Tuesday.