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Louie Mantia, with a thoughtful essay on app icon design and the squircle-jail controversy on the…OpenAI Releases Codex Micro, a Stupid $230 Hardware Keypad
Jul 16, 2026, 1:45 pm By John Gruber
Remember back in March when then-co-CEO Fidji Simo announced to the company that “We cannot miss…Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’
Jul 15, 2026, 7:02 pm By John GruberMark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its…Eric Seufert: ‘Did Apple Just Signal a Third-Party Expansion of Apple Ads?’
Jul 15, 2026, 6:52 pm By John Gruber
Eric Seufert, Mobile Dev Memo: The new language could simply accommodate the availability of…Apple Updates Advertising Services Policy With New Rules for Ads in Maps
Jul 15, 2026, 6:48 pm By John Gruber
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: In a newly published Apple Advertising Services policy, effective as of…Apple Intelligence OK’d to Launch in China, Using AI Models from Baidu and Alibaba
Jul 15, 2026, 6:35 pm By John Gruber
Ben Jiang, reporting from Beijing for the South China Morning Post: Chinese regulators have granted…WorkOS Pipes
Jul 12, 2026, 6:17 pm By John Gruber
My thanks, once again, to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Users expect apps and agents to reach…Paulo Andrade: ‘A WWDC 27 Update on Building a Mac-Assed App With SwiftUI’
Jul 12, 2026, 5:18 pm By John GruberPaulo Andrade: My last post on using SwiftUI to build a Mac-assed app got a bit more traction than…How UIs Degrade Over Time
Jul 12, 2026, 3:51 pm By John GruberThese examples are from Windows, but the same degradation is true for the standard look for MacOS…‘Every Frame Perfect’
Jul 12, 2026, 3:48 pm By John GruberNikita “Tonsky” Prokopov: The rule of thumb is: If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment,…TwoMillionKit: Use Private Cloud Compute in MacOS 27 Foundation Models Without an Entitlement
Jul 12, 2026, 2:04 pm By John Gruber
Guilherme Rambo: Apple ships the fm command-line tool in macOS 27, which can be used to run…Sam Altman and Elon Musk Argue Over Who’s Running the Bigger Scam
Jul 12, 2026, 1:45 pm By John Gruber
Elon Musk, linking to his own tweet from March that “Sam Altman is super good at scamming”: He…Lunacy — Jeff Halter’s Lunatic Fringe Player
Jul 12, 2026, 1:19 pm By John Gruber
After linking to Stacks, his remarkable new modern HyperCard player, I made the terrible mistake of…Stacks — HyperCard Player for Modern MacOS
Jul 12, 2026, 11:42 am By John Gruber
Well this is just delightful: Run HyperCard stacks directly on your modern Mac. No emulator…Can Someone Explain to Me How to Get ‘ChatGPT Classic’?
Jul 11, 2026, 6:38 pm By John GruberOne more link from OpenAI’s Help Center, this one explaining how to upgrade from the old Mac app to…OpenAI Help Center Describes What Is Wrong With the New ChatGPT
Jul 11, 2026, 6:24 pm By John GruberOpenAI Help Center, “Where Work and Codex are available”: Work is available on ChatGPT web and…Benedict Evans on the New ‘Super App’ ChatGPT
Jul 11, 2026, 6:16 pm By John Gruber
Benedict Evans with a succinct review on Threads: Wow, what a total mess. What is the difference…★ Exactly Like Om Malik
Jul 11, 2026, 3:43 pm By John Gruber
Fred Vogelstein (Om’s partner at Crazy Stupid Tech): We met a week later at his outdoor office — a…Gurman on Tang Tan and Paul Meade
Jul 11, 2026, 2:02 pm By John GruberMark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (paywalled, alas): Apple was quickly alarmed by OpenAI’s…‘No Interest’
Jul 10, 2026, 11:41 pm By John Gruber
Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel): Our statement in…
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