Abstractions

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announces Siri AI and other improvements to its upcoming OS 27 line of operating system software.

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WWDC26 highlights: Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, and more

Apple introduces Siri AI

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Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

Google kills its search product after 25 years and announces its Gemini-LLM-centric “Googlebook” notebook, while Plex triples its lifetime pass price to $750.

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The Virtual OS Museum

Is AI Profitable?

Google kills its search product after 25 years

On Google declaring war on the Web

Ad Infinitum

Search alternatives:

Kagi

DuckDuckGo

Ecosia

Startpage

Googlebook

Official Reddit announcement post

Dropover: wiggle cursor to open a “shelf” (MacOS)

Plex lifetime pass to jump from $250 to $750

Jellyfin

Jellify music app for Jellyfin

Awesome Jellyfin

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

Friends don’t let friends use Ollama, local software needs to be the norm, and why it’s not fun to read what LLMs write.

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Since You Arrived

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama

Local AI needs to be the norm

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

Local-first Software Directory

Sinceerly

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

original 404 Media link (paywalled)

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

Apple has a new CEO, Mac windows still have proxy icons, and Anthropic finds a clever way to increase the price for Claude without increasing prices.

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Pelican 4.12 released

Bubbles.town

Window proxy icons in Mac OS 8.5 Human Interface Guidelines (1998)

Window proxy icons in Neovide

Claude 4.7 increased token usage

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.

We discuss a tool for comparing coding fonts, GitHub announces support for stacked pull requests, and Facebook kills its “metaverse”.

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Abstractions episode title truncated

CodingFont.com

GitHub stacked PRs

Native instant space switching on MacOS

AeroSpace tiling window manager for MacOS

Open-source design stack

Facebook kills its metaverse

You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.

Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.