None of you warned me that even though Slide Over made its (stunted) return to iPadOS 26, the Shortcuts action to open apps in that mode has been removed. 🙁 That was going to be the saving grace of updating, and now I’m sad.
🆕📝 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. 🙄 🇺🇸
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.
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.
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. 😛
*There’s still a limited in-person watch party at Apple Park on June 8.
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. 🏔️ 🥇
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.
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!
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.
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. 👌
