Daring Fireball

Late-breaking candidate for best new font of 2024.  ★ 

While there is no subscription offering for Daring Fireball (never say never again), I am reminded this week to remind you that, if you enjoy podcasts, you should subscribe to Dithering, the twice-weekly 15-minutes-on-the-button podcast I do with Ben Thompson.…

If I had wanted to write a column about presidential pardons, I’d find ChatGPT’s assistance a far better starting point than I’d have gotten through any general web search. But to quote Reagan: “Trust, but verify.”

Purely fun, pay-whatever-you-think-fair app for the Mac from Simon Støvring (developer of numerous fine apps such as Runestone and Scriptable):…

David Frum, writing at The Atlantic, regarding his jarring appearance as a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:…

Oliver Darcy, in a well-sourced report at Status (paywalled, alas, but with a preview of the article if you sign up for the free version of his newsletter, which I agree is sort of a “Yeah, no thanks” offer):…

Stephanie Palazzolo, writing for The Information (paywalled, alas):…

From The Stanford Review editor-in-chief Julia Steinberg’s interview with university president Jonathan Levin:…

Alex Heath, writing at The Verge:…

While writing the previous item regarding the FBI encouraging the use of E2EE text and call protocols, I wound up at the Play Store page for Google Messages. It’s shamefully misleading regarding Google Messages’s support for end-to-end encryption. As I…

Kevin Collier, reporting for NBC News:…

A few nuggets of wisdom from Andy Grove, in an interview with Esquire after he retired as Intel’s CEO, but still served as chairman:…

Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn.…

Grove’s words don’t read merely as advice — they read today as a postmortem for what happed to Intel over the last 20 years.

Nilay Patel:…

Christopher Mims, writing for The Wall Street Journal (News+):…

Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.…

Amazon is running a holiday discount on M3 MacBook Airs, but it’s tricky — you need to click around through various color choices and watch the prices and ship dates. My main link on this post goes to the config that looks like their best deal for…

Ian King, Liana Baker, and Ryan Gould, reporting for Bloomberg:*…

My thanks to Crunchy Bagel — the company of developer Quentin Zervaas — for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Streaks, their excellent app for iPhone and Apple Watch. Streaks is a to-do list that helps you form good habits. The point…

Cal Paterson:…

Kind of wild that this entire sub-site is still standing on Apple.com, including working video. (Fingers crossed that my linking to it doesn’t bring it to the attention of someone who decides to 404 it.)  ★ 

From Nathan Edwards’s 6/10 review of the M4 iMac for The Verge:…

Holiday shopping bundle of 13 excellent Mac Apps, with two ways to buy. Get the whole bundle of 13 apps for $74 (a 76 percent discount from the combined regular prices), or, pick and choose a la carte and buy apps at 50 percent off.…

Fun interaction design treatise from George Cave. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  ★ 

Borderline incredible discount on AirPods Pro 2 at Amazon. This is just short of $100 off the retail list price of $249. (Buy through this link and I’ll get rich on the affiliate commission.)  ★ 

John Siracusa, in his inimitable style, reviewed Delicious Library 1.0 upon its release, 20 years ago this month:…

Wil Shipley, on Mastodon:…

The Onion Editorial Board:…

Erin Woo, Sahil Patel, and Amir Efrati, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas):…