David Demaree

Monday’s WWDC 2026 keynote — Tim Cook’s final Apple event as CEO, with incoming CEO John Ternus presumably debuting at the iPhone launch this fall — was nearly all about Apple Intelligence.

The following transcript of me interviewing Claude Opus 4.8 (High effort) on May 31, 2026, is presented verbatim.

A couple of years ago, WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went onstage at the annual WordCamp event and declared war against WP Engine, a big company whose entire business is built around WordPress, saying they needed to pay hefty royalti…

Pavel Samsonov joked on Bluesky a while back that “B2B software is named either Andromeda or ThingDoer:” Andromeda uses cutting edge AI, is endlessly configurable, has a huge sales team, and loses tons of money because at the end of the day it does fuck-a…

Subscribers to Anthropic’s Claude subscription plans all received an email this morning, explaining some changes to how usage is metered and billed when third-party apps and scripts interact with Claude Code, which I’m quoting here almost in its entirety.

This post is for anyone who, like me, is curious about the whole Linux thing — especially the whole Linux-on-a-Framework-Laptop thing that’s in vogue among programmers — but don’t know where to start, and don’t know your Fedoras from your Arches.

Our family just wrapped up our first long road trip in our new-ish Honda Prologue EV (which replaced a Tesla Model Y because… you know).

Last night, after having spent an enjoyable hour or two playing Shattered Space, the newly released DLC for Bethesda’s 2023 outer-space RPG Starfield, I went on the game’s main Reddit community at r/Starfield and — not for the first or even fiftieth time —

With the benefit of hindsight, this is what I wish Marvel’s plan had been for the Multiverse Saga era of the MCU: In my head-canon, the emphasis on Kang was a red herring.

About a week ago, I noticed mild, subtle blurriness in my vision in my right eye, like smudges on a camera lens.