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Upgrade Presents: The Origin of Apple https://pxlnv.com/linklog/upgrade-origin-of-apple/

Upgrade Presents: The Origin of Apple – Pixel Envy

The newest episode of “Upgrade” is a wonderful retelling of a very particular history (also available as a video): Jason and Myke tell the story of Apple’s origin. It emerged from the unique environment of the Santa Clara valley suburbs of the ’70s thanks to the particular genius of its two co-founders and some surprising […]

bbech 4d ago

BasicAppleGuy 4d ago

Surf's Up in macOS Tahoe 🏄

bbech Mar 28

Tailscale Mar 27

Here’s how Tailscale handled MacBooks “notching” its menu bar icon—starting with a coy little code fix and ending with a whole new windowed Mac UI. https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape

bbech Mar 26

Show thread

Tim Johnsen Mar 26

@ivory one could now toot in a Toot

bbech Mar 25

John Voorhees Mar 24

If you use a lot of apps and want to get more out of automation, an easy trick is to point Claude or Codex at your Applications folder and have it research which apps offer CLI tools, APIs, AppleScript, Shortcuts, support, and more.

Then, save the catalog to memory for future automation sessions.

bbech Mar 15

Ashton Mar 15

The Apple Creator Studio subscription has ruined once great and kid friendly iPad apps like Keynote and Pages. Half the buttons prompt you to upgrade, the subscription and premium AI features are pushed HARD.

bbech Mar 13

Ricky Mondello Mar 12

This is a beautiful post that I recommend reading. https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

bbech Mar 11

What's My JND? 0.0040
Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AZMfKP__8n8N

What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

bbech Mar 10

RE: https://mastodon.social/@niclake/116205796843429599

#FediHire

bbech Mar 10

This is something that feels straight out of Silicon Valley the show. Someone makes something viral but useless and gets bought up.

Pretty sure these guys basically just got a deal that will allow them to retire and live an extremely comfortable upper middle class life for essentially a meme in an area where money is just being thrown around.

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/10/meta-just-bought-moltbook-the-social-network-for-ai-bots/

Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac

If Dystopia Daily were a newspaper, this story would lead… Axios reports that Meta has bought Moltbook, the social network...

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