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Jul 7, 2026, 11:22 am By John Gruber
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers…★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’
Jul 6, 2026, 6:23 pm By John Gruber
Paul Kafasis, writing at Rogue Amoeba’s blog, “Free the Icons”: Apple’s prohibition on shapes is a…Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple’s Version 27 OSes
Jul 6, 2026, 4:38 pm By John Gruber
The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer…Backblaze Versus Dropbox
Jul 6, 2026, 2:34 pm By John GruberThere’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding…Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’
Jul 6, 2026, 1:37 pm By John Gruber
Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out…ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps
Jul 6, 2026, 1:13 pm By John GruberA banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time. ATP memberships are…Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, Has Been Retired
Jul 6, 2026, 1:04 pm By John GruberMaestral developer Sam Schott, on the Maestral website: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer…Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld
Jul 6, 2026, 10:35 am By John Gruber
Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going…Day One Journal
Jul 4, 2026, 5:02 pm By John Gruber
My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in…From the DF Archive: ‘Electron and the Decline of Native Apps’
Jul 4, 2026, 3:28 pm By John Gruber
Yours truly, back in 2018: I don’t share the depth of their pessimism regarding native apps, but…Fantastical 4.1.15 Adds Calendar Mirroring
Jul 4, 2026, 12:57 pm By John Gruber
Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal)…★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
Jul 3, 2026, 5:24 pm By John Gruber
Anthropic released the first version of the Claude “desktop” app for MacOS in October 2024 — an…April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’
Jul 2, 2026, 6:30 pm By John Gruber
Mike Dano, in a long (too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app):…Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers
Jul 2, 2026, 5:55 pm By John Gruber
Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology…EveryMac Turns 30
Jul 2, 2026, 5:31 pm By John GruberEveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not…I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)
Jul 2, 2026, 4:32 pm By John Gruber
Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of…‘A Perfect Reflection of Trump’s Washington’
Jul 2, 2026, 3:14 pm By John Gruber
Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an…Claude Fable and Kayfabe
Jul 2, 2026, 2:29 pm By John Gruber
Anthropic: On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models,…‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’
Jul 2, 2026, 1:09 pm By John Gruber
Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly, is a Substack blog): The biggest…
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