Mastodawn

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 6d ago

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.

Gavin Anderegg Mar 30

Two more Liquid Glass fixes in macOS 26.4
https://anderegg.ca/2026/03/30/two-more-liquid-glass-fixes-in-macos-264

Gavin Anderegg Mar 29

Liquid Glass updates in 26.4
https://anderegg.ca/2026/03/29/liquid-glass-updates-in-264

Liquid Glass updates in 26.4

Apple recently updated all their OSs to 26.4, and there were plenty of Liquid Glass updates. Most of them of the better! Here are some of the changes that stood out to me, as well as a bit more grumbling about Liquid Glass in general (sorry).

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Gavin Anderegg Mar 18

Mario Guzmán Mar 18

NVIDIA’s #DLSS5 is crazy yo!

#macOS #macOSTahoe

Gavin Anderegg Mar 17

Ars Technica Mar 17

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups
Nvidia's next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/gamers-react-with-overwhelming-disgust-to-dlss-5s-generative-ai-glow-ups/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Gavin Anderegg Mar 13

Happy π day eve, everyone!

Gavin Anderegg Mar 13

Periodic reminder that the cloud is just some else’s (often shared, expensive, and slow to spin up) computer. The MacBook Neo does a surprisingly good job in this big data benchmark. https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook

Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook

How does the latest entry-level MacBook perform on database workloads? We benchmarked it using ClickBench and TPC-DS SF300. We found that it could complete both workloads, sometimes with surprisingly good results.

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Gavin Anderegg Mar 12

To be clear, I don't have a leg to stand on here as my signature is a weird scribble. This just struck me as funny.

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