This Is My Last

Someone who only uses an iPhone as a phone is going to have a very different daily battery-life experience than someone who listen to podcasts all day, or someone who doomscroll all day.

Apple, together with American Academy of Pediatrics, has published Building Healthy Digital Habits: A Guide for Families.

Dear podcasts and apps, Stop telling me your subscription only cost one cup of coffee per month.

And now, more links for your reading pleasure.

If your smart device requires the internet to work, it will die when the servers go away someday.

Museum of Me: We have filled almost every awkward little pause that used to exist in a day.

Marcin Wichary, in the latest post, talked about apps throwing up a splash screen while the rest of the software loads, versus making things fast enough that no splash screen is necessary.

George Loewenstein, The Guardian: Avoidance of misery rests on a false premise about how happiness actually works.

I've just listened to an audiobook about maps, and I was entertained, I was imparted with knowledge and trivia, and after reading, I was curious enough to continue to read a whole bunch of Wikipedia articles.

Rose Tremain, The Guardian: To those who might imagine me in “retirement” tending my garden in Norfolk, existing only through this and through the lives of my daughter and my grandchildren, I need to explain that ideas for novels and stories still arrive…

Steve Jobs probably always see Apple as his company, and that's probably why he did have the company built products just for him, but released to the public.

Finally, I've watched a podcast on YouTube, that I've previously only listened to.

A Mac app should look and feel like a Mac app.

Here's a beautiful photo from John Scalzi for your, hopefully, beautiful Friday… ~ Link: And Now, Just Because it’s Pretty, Succulent Flowers After the Rain, by John Scalzi

When I am stressed or sad or annoyed or… feelings, I go take a walk.

"Monsters are always other people"… and other links for your bedtime reading tonight.

For Apple, it's time to move on beyond AR demos with iPads, as Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors: Following renovations, the Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino, California no longer features a 3D augmented reality model of the Apple Park campus. ~ L…

There is a podcast client on Apple's App Store that can automatically skip ads. and "US case law suggests that the behaviour of the app could be considered legal", James Cridland wrote: Automatically skipping the ads in this way means that advertising won…

From grammar suggestions by Microsoft Word to poetry by Gen AI… and other links for your reading tonight.

I am still using my 10-year-old iPad Pro.

Both of my Chinese and English names are given to me by my parents.

Based on this article from The Telegraph, I should walk more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and go play football at my void deck.

Jason Snell, reviewing the new M6 Mac mini: I get it.

In November 2026, Voyager 1, the space probe that left Earth back in September 1977, will reach light day away.

What's wrong with seeing the world as just data for the computer… and other longreads for your reading pleasure.

I no longer have appetite for food.

Electronic Frontier Foundation has a guide on limiting how Siri AI can access your apps and data.

Sandra Davie reporting on screen exposure on young children: According to the researchers, one explanation is that the bombardment of fast movements, sounds and scene changes can leave few resources for the brain to build self-regulation skills.

The battery in the new iPhone 18 Pro Max has so much more capacity that we have to create a new thing you need to do before shipping your iPhone, says Apple.

Steve Lemay, Apple, talking about the new iOS in iPhone Duo: We didn't want it to feel like you're starting a different operating system when you unfold it.

I use my iPhone to say 'good morning' to my family if I don't get to see them in person.

The reviews for the new iPhone Pro are in.

Things just don’t stay the same in this universe.

What makes Apple products most interesting is not the hardware.

When things go right, as Apple had designed and intended, we are delighted.

Pete Reynolds, McSweeney's: For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could ALSO SHIT?

I have upgraded my iPhone to iOS 27, and I have upgraded my Mac to macOS 27.

Anthony Gottlieb, Literary Review: Not only are some governments waking up to their dangers, but nearly half of the first generation of Americans to grow up with smartphones told pollsters that they wished TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter/X had never been inv…

After a summer of betas, all the new and improved Apple OSes for the new year have been released.

"An invitation, a citation, a gift, a shortcut, a connection."

I am not a superhero comics reader, and I am not familiar with the genre.

I still have a box of old cables, accumulated from a lifetime of buying stuff.

3.57am It's getting more common, me waking up in the middle of the night and not able to get back to sleep.

What is roman à clef, and why does it matter?

There is a movie trope where two person are gossiping about someone else in a toilet.

John Ternus, the new CEO of Apple, didn't introduce the new iPhone Duo as two devices in one.

Aaron Horwath: But perhaps the most powerful action of all is simply to maintain an awareness (and remind others) that Workism is a spectacle.

I listen to a lot of BBC podcasts.

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