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Nilay Patel put out an excellent Decoder episode today. In it, he dove into the idea of “software brain”, which is something he’s been workshopping during the past several Vergecast episodes. It’s his attempt to explain why so many Silicon Valley folks are head over heels about AI, at the same time that most normal people hate it. The idea really resonates with me.

https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/23/beware-software-brain

Beware software brain

Nilay Patel put out an excellent Decoder episode today. In it, he dove into the idea of “software brain”, which is something he’s been workshopping during the past several Vergecast episodes. It’s his attempt to explain why so many Silicon Valley folks are head over heels about AI, at the same time that most normal people hate it. The idea really resonates with me.

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Gavin Anderegg 1d ago

Steve Troughton-Smith 1d ago

Easter Egg or bug?, MobileSafari edition 😅

Gavin Anderegg 1d ago

Yesterday, Claude Code disappeared from the $20/month subscription tier on Anthropic’s website. Well, for some people. Then it came back. As Simon Willison put it, it’s all very confusing.

https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/22/llm-pricing-has-never-made-sense

LLM pricing has never made sense

Yesterday, Claude Code disappeared from the $20/month subscription tier on Anthropic’s website. Well, for some people. Then it came back. As Simon Willison put it, it’s all very confusing.

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Gavin Anderegg 2d ago

Yesterday, Tim Cook announced his timeline for stepping down as Apple’s CEO . I felt like I should write something about this, but I wasn’t sure what. I fell back into thinking about Cook’s time by the numbers.

https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/21/tims-time

Tim’s Time

Yesterday, Tim Cook announced his timeline for stepping down as Apple’s CEO . I felt like I should write something about this, but I wasn’t sure what. I fell back into thinking about Cook’s time by the numbers.

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Gavin Anderegg 3d ago

@Euan This may not be news, but saw this and thought it was neat. I love that our local comic shop is such an institution! https://bsky.app/profile/strangeadventures.bsky.social/post/3mjxuonp7u22z

Strange Adventures Comix & Curiosities (@strangeadventures.bsky.social)

The Doctor is in! exclusive Doctor Who comics featuring the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 15th Doctors!

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Gavin Anderegg 4d ago

Mario Guzmán 4d ago

Contacts #macOSTahoe is so broken. First, the new design sucks. You can no longer change widths between your contacts list & the contact details view.

Second, creating a new contact glitches out resulting in data loss. Here's a video of me trying to make a new contact TWICE; both times losing my data. It also flickers A LOT.

This is Microsoft-level software quality that I would have never expected from Apple. How do you mess up something as simple as contacts?

Guess I gotta fix this app too.

Gavin Anderegg 5d ago

Scritchy Raccone and the Pylon Wars

https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/19/scritchy-raccone-and-the-pylon-wars

Scritchy Raccone and the Pylon Wars

I live in a weird place. Happily, it’s often a good type of weird. Sadly, it’s also a place where, in general, motorists aren’t very concerned with things like “obeying laws” or “not hitting people”.

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Gavin Anderegg Apr 4

I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one.

https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/04/the-atkinson-polaroids

The Atkinson Polaroids

I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one.

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Gavin Anderegg Apr 1

Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations.

https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/01/apple-at-50-my-journey-to-the-mac

Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac

Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations.

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Gavin Anderegg Mar 31

Jari Pennanen Mar 31

NPM and other package repositories must learn from Linux distributions.

It is ridiculous that every week we are now reading about vulnerability that already ended up in the NPM package repository.

Linux distributions have mitigated this with for example having testing and stable branches. Packages stay few weeks at least in testing, before they go stable. This would have prevented many of the compromises alone.

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

#NPM #Linux #NodeJS

axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity

Hijacked maintainer account used to publish poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The attacker injected a hidden dependency that drops a cross platform RAT. We are actively investigating and will update this post with a full technical analysis.

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