To return home, able to climb another day — that’s the goal! To summit some peaks along the way, we can feel extra thankful for that. 🏔️

Man smiling in snowy forest standing beside tree holding trail sign. Sign reads: Foot Trail. MT. COLVIN 1.8 miles NIPPLETOP MT 2.4 miles. 5-star review text by Donald Fella: Safety is the top priority, which is why I highly recommend Jarrod and Onward Mountain Guides. His professionalism and extensive knowledge of the High Peaks are unmatched. As a 46er who has completed most hikes solo, my wife insisted I not attempt winter solo ascents. Jarrod partnered with me and helped me reach my winter halfway point. We discussed our target peaks and planned our route ahead of time. I trusted Jarrod’s guidance throughout the journey and never regretted it for a moment. It was reassuring to have someone carry all the necessary safety gear and keep us on course. I look forward to continuing my winter peak bagging adventures with him this December.

Happy spring, everybody! 🌱

Snow covers a wooden deck, surrounded by a forest of tall trees, creating a serene winter scene.

I’ve been coming to this same realization.

My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:

Nobody is coming to save us. 


Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force. 

We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.

Manton Reece: ‘OpenAI got its name right’

How do we reconcile all of this? There is a feeling in the developer community that the Anthropic folks are the good guys. They’re the ones who care about safety. They’re the ones who don’t want ads. They’re the ones fighting the Pentagon.

If you look closer, though, it’s mostly a feeling. Anthropic is an enterprise software company with expensive models. I like Dario Amodei, but he has built a closed company that seems afraid of its own shadow.

Mac vs. PC. iPhone vs. Android. Claude vs. ChatGPT. Closed vs. Open is a never-ending story.

🆕📝 The difference between a company that makes money and a company that makes something worth caring about

Jobs had it. Will Ternus?

Myke Hurley reflects on his first year of parenthood:

Sophia will take whatever energy I can give her. If I have a little, she’ll take that; if I have a lot, she’ll take that too. I actually find this very helpful.

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are Songs I’ve Been Obsessed With) This Week [#185]

Some of these are definitely making it onto my Rewind 2026 playlist.

Great weekend with the pals. Twas soggy but good sends anyway. Gonna be a solid rock season. 👍

A climber ascends a steep rock face secured by a blue rope wearing a harness with climbing gear in a foggy environment surrounded by bare trees and sparse vegetation. A climber ascending a rocky cliff using a rope surrounded by sparse trees on a misty day with rugged terrain forming the background. A climber ascends a large rocky cliff while another person stands below on a rocky path. The surrounding area is filled with bare trees and fog creates a misty atmosphere. A climber ascends a rugged rock face, using climbing gear, surrounded by misty tree branches and autumn leaves. A climber wearing a pink helmet ascends a gray, rocky cliff face, secured by a pink rope in a wooded outdoor setting. Sparse trees and a cloudy sky surround the scene. Two climbers wearing helmets secure ropes to a rocky cliff face outdoors one smiling at the camera amidst harnesses and climbing gear. Person rock climbing on a vertical cliff face gripping holds with both hands wearing a helmet and harness amidst a rocky outdoor setting with sparse trees and a clear sky. Climber ascends steep rocky cliff wearing helmet and harness carrying gear against a rugged outdoor backdrop with sparse vegetation. People hiking on a rocky forest trail at dusk carrying backpacks and a coiled rope with a dog walking beside them surrounded by bare trees against a twilight sky. Several people wearing backpacks walk along a leaf-covered trail in a forested area with bare trees during early evening or morning light.

I just love the Irish diction for the word girls. 🇮🇪

This week’s episode of Clockwise — their 650th! — which pitted hosts @jsnell@zeppelin.flights (emeritus), @mikahsargent@mastodon.social, and @dmoren@zeppelin.flights against each other vying for @philipmichaels.bsky.social’s approval was a real treat. Congrats on the long-lasting excellence, guys! 🎧

Cloudflare: ‘Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security’

It is serverless, but you can run it on your own hardware or any platform you choose. Plugins are securely sandboxed and can run in their own isolate, via Dynamic Workers, solving the fundamental security problem with the WordPress plugin architecture. And under the hood, EmDash is powered by Astro, the fastest web framework for content-driven websites.

The technicalities go over my head. But a more free, secure, and modern WordPress with a great name by Cloudflare? This seems like a big deal.

I’d never before come across David Pogue’s parody music video about the original iPhone on launch day. It’s so cringey that it comes all the way back around to being funny. 😆 Worth a watch.

(Via Daring Fireball)

Great cold open for @siracusa@mastodon.social’s guest spot on The Talk Show. Love the stark honesty, and I’ve never heard @gruber@mastodon.social giggle quite like this before. Gonna be a good one. 🤣 🎧

🆕📝 Apple at 50: A Dent in the Universe

If ever there was a time to reflect back on Apple’s contributions to the world, it’s now.

There’s something that tickles me about Apple’s 50th anniversary happening the same day that we relaunch our efforts toward the moon. 🍎🚀

Text image with a motivational quote by Steve Jobs: “Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” The text is styled with varying fonts and sizes for emphasis.

👀

Tomorrow…

A screenshot of Dice by PCalc, with a Lil Finder standing in the middle of a blue velvet tray.

Love this.

If you reverse the new Apple video that plays in "rewind," it's the Think Different ad music, pitched up.

We did it, everybody. (I don’t even like peanut butter cups, and I was still rooting for this change!)

Hershey Says It Will Shift Back to Classic Recipe for All Reese’s Products After Criticism
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John Gruber has done us a favor and re-hosted the video files from Apple’s homepage, and from Tim Cook’s post on X (it’s also on the new @helloapple Instagram account) honoring products across their 50 years.

I love how they referenced the original Macintosh’s packaging with the colorful sketches.

This retro dock is just perfect for a Mac mini

Appropriate for Apple’s 50th anniversary, this retro Macintosh docking station has got to be the coolest I’ve ever seen, and I wish I had an M4 Mac mini to pair with it.

A modern setup with a small retro-style computer sitting on a desk. The computer resembles an old Macintosh model and displays an image of a colorful street cafe. In the background, there’s a large monitor with a gradient background and an audio device underneath it. To the right, there are a few Pokémon cards and a window showing a view of neighboring buildings.

It’s got a 5-inch screen, perfect for a “headless” setup or as a second (tiny) display for status stuff. Plus, an SSD slot for extra storage or Time Machine, six USB-A & -C ports, SD card slots, HDMI or DisplayPort, and audio out. But the old-school Macintosh style and mini 720p display are the real winners here.

The image shows the back view of a Mac dock. It has multiple ports including two USB ports, an HDMI input, two other ports, and an audio jack. There’s an air vent on the top, and the device is being held by two hands. A power cable is visible separately to the right.

Gonna keep this in mind for whenever I replace my M1 Mac mini. Get it for as low as $152.99 on Amazon (SSD not included).

(h/t and images: 9to5Mac)

Sam MacIlwaine: ‘California Nutrition Startup Launches New Protein Chalk for Climbing’

Over a six-month period, researchers monitored the lungs of climbers who bouldered at the gym, without a mask on, for at least two hours per day once a week. They found that the average climber inhales close to one milligram per cubic meter per hour of magnesium carbonate particulate matter. That’s nearly twice the U.S. Workplace Exposure Limit of half a milligram per cubic meter per hour.

It’s sad that this rings so true, ingesting lots of magnesium chalk, that I totally believed this April Fool’s post.

James has a clever new feature for his Artemis web reader: ‘Nesting social posts under blog posts in Artemis’

While a relatively small change, this feature helps to create focus on blog posts as opposed to presenting both a blog post and an announcement post in the same way.

I feel both fortunate and hopelessly conflicted by so many great options for RSS and similar readers (Artemis, Classic Reader, Reader, Inkwell, Quick Reads, Readwise…). But I sure like playing with them all!

John Voorhees, with a powerful sentiment in his piece for Club MacStories (🔒) reflecting on the spirit that still guides the culture at Apple:

I think there’s a good reason Apple doesn’t look back at its past much as a company. As cool as the original Mac, iPhone, and the company’s other products were, they’re not useful today, and to revere the tools over what they enable is like elevating Michelangelo’s chisel over David.

This week’s Upgrade was a ton of fun as @jsnell@zeppelin.flights and @imyke@myke.social recounted the tale of Apple’s beginning, 50 years ago.* 🎧

*Except, fun fact, I learned that it was only 49 years ago! 😱

Rebecca Alter, Vulture: ‘The Harry Potter TV Show Trailer Is Muggleslop’

I guess I don’t know what I was expecto-ing. The first teaser trailer for HBO’s TV adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone looks like the original Harry Potter movie, but much grayer. The sets — like Hogwarts, the Hogwarts Express, the Quidditch pitch, and Harry’s little room under the stairs — are just as you remember them, with slightly worse lighting and some tiny, unplaceable details altered. The characters are dressed and styled like they were in the movies, too, but their faces are all different[.]

Haven’t seen the trailer, and I wouldn’t feel good about watching this series, but this headline captures exactly what I’ve felt about pictures of the remake I’ve seen. It does look like someone asked an AI to generate a Harry Potter trailer.