Daring Fireball

Kolide is a SaaS app that sends employees important, timely, and relevant security recommendations concerning their Mac, Windows, and Linux devices, right inside Slack.…

From the department of “It’s only funny because it’s true”.  ★ 

My thanks to Keyboard Maestro for sponsoring last week at DF.…

David Remnick wrote a wonderful remembrance of the great Roger Angell, who died last week at 101:…

Ben Foldy and Caitlin Ostroff, reporting for the WSJ (News+):…

Scan of the Month:…

The Simpsons really has predicted so much. Maybe Apple should pivot Project Titan into a monorail project.  ★ 

Hartley Charlton:…

This is one doozy of a correction in a New York Times report yesterday on updated CDC guidance for COVID booster shots for kids aged 5–11:…

Gijong Lee, reporting for Korean news site TheElec:…

From the first of a two-part report for The Information by Wayne Ma (paywalled, alas):…

I’ve long heard from friends that Stripe’s developer documentation is not just excellent, but perhaps the best developer documentation in the world. They do all sorts of neat things to help developers, like putting your API key into snippets you copy from…

Keyboard Maestro is a Mac utility that lets you automate applications or web sites, text or images, simple or complex, on command or scheduled. Anything you can do on your Mac manually, Keyboard Maestro can almost certainly automate for you.…

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg:…

Bruce Schneier: The research is fascinating, but the attack isn’t really feasible. It requires a jailbroken phone, which is hard to pull off in an adversarial setting.  ★ 

Apple, responding to last month’s open letter from industry professionals concerned about Final Cut Pro’s also-ran status in Hollywood production:…

Apple, kicking off Global Accessibility Awareness Day:…

Ben Schoon, reporting for 9to5Google:…

Pairs well with Apple’s new spot. Fun too, to see the “Get It On Google Play” banner on the closing screen.  ★ 

Nice sequel to last year’s “Tracked”.…

One more on the “cryptocurrency is mostly about scams” front — a concise interview with Web3 Is Going Just Great creator Molly White, by Harvard Business Review editor Thomas Stackpole:…

Speaking of cryptocurrencies as Ponzi schemes (powered by energy-intensive computing), here’s Matt Levine, in a podcast interview with FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, responding to Bankman-Fried’s description of “yield farming”:…

Current Affairs:…

DF’s weekly sponsorships have been selling briskly this year, and are currently sold out until August. But: this very week’s spot just opened up.…

My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at DF. Kolide believes that the supposedly “average person” is the key to unlocking a new class of security detection, compliance, and threat remediation. So do the hundreds of organizations that send important…

Special guest Tripp Mickle joins the show to talk about his new book, After Steve, reporting on the last decade at Apple.…

CNBC:…

Kayvon Beykpour, who’d been head of product at Twitter since 2018:…

Also from The Verge, an excellent 18-minute cut of the Google I/O keynote. It’s kind of funny watching them go from things definitely shipping in a few months (Pixel 7 phones) to something they plan to ship in “2023” (a Pixel tablet, which looks a lot…

Victoria Song, reporting for The Verge:…