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Lex Friedman: The App Store review process needs fixing Every single app and app update released in the App Store goes through this review process, and the review process is largely a black box.

Cory Dransfeldt: Become worthless (to tech companies) I'm not arguing for boycotts, I know that people are bound to different platforms for different, compelling reasons.

As of today, you nerds who like to read later can do so from your terminal with the Quick Reads CLI.

Best-o-Masto is my website for finding the best stuff from your Mastodon and Bluesky feeds quickly.

Nonogame has become my obsession lately, and I'm happy to see hundreds of people coming back daily to play it.

We live in a world where sometimes you'll see an old app get revitalized, but it's not from the same people who made the original, and other times it's not even authorized.

Brandon Vigliarolo: iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink To make a long story short, a cold can of La Croix (in Birchler’s case – the cooling potential of an aluminum can isn’t limited to name-brand sparkling “naturally essenced” wate…

Riley Hill: Galaxy Z Fold 8 Review: Worth Buying in Years As for the crease, it’s not something you see when looking at the larger display head-on.

I've had two incidents in the past weekend that proved to me that my iPhone was listening.

I'm sure someone likes this "ask Siri about active window" shortcut, but I hate it, and it conflicts with the default 1Password quick access shortcut.

For the past four years, I have maintained that AirPods Pro 2 are the best AirPods ever made.

Michael Cripe: Resident Evil Defies Expectations as Zach Cregger Adaptation Collects $108 Million Globally After First Weekend in Theaters It's a franchise-best opening for the horror-comedy hybrid that saw it bring in $60 million domestically and $48.3 m…

I put together as much of Apple's iPhone Duo documentation as I could into a skill that I'm using to audit my apps for the new layouts and features.

Leading up to the iPhone Duo's announcement, I suggested that Apple's big advantage here compared to other folding phones on the market that are based on Android was the iPad ecosystem.

Quick Stuff is my website with a bunch of little utilities to get things done.

Nonogame for the iPhone and iPad is out now, and I'm really excited about it.

I did some benchmarking today and saw how the newest iPhone thermal throttles, which isn't severe, but does happen.

Apple made a big deal out of the AI capabilities in their new A20 Pro processor in their new iPhone marketing.

Apple released new developer betas for OS 27.2 today, which is not quite what I expected.

There is a very specific thing you see quite often in online discourse around Apple, which is that people think Apple claims they invent everything or Apple says every little update will change your life.

This is gonna be a short one, but I made a simple Obsidian theme.

I hit a pretty fun milestone in nonogame today: 1000 hours played.

Am I biased?

Apple has just started rolling out OS 27 across all their devices, and I think they're good updates across the board.

As of today, Quick Reads now attempts to save all pages of the multi-page articles you save to the service.

I found this report from Luminate media to be fascinating.

Daryl Baxter: Retroid Pocket Nova review: the best 4:3 retro handheld The latest handheld by Retroid answers something that its users have been asking for - give us a handheld as powerful as the Pocket, but with a 4:3 display.

Joe Rossignol: Apple Says iPhone 18 Pro Max Sold in U.S.

Very often, we in the Apple community expect the bare minimum from Apple.

David Smith shared some numbers on how many people are using WidgetSmith, his insanely popular, and therefore pretty representative of the overall market, app.

I'm always looking for little ways to make Quick Reads better.

Today I do the impossible and get through my biggest thoughts about Apple's announcements from yesterday in less than 10 minutes.

I have a lot more to go through in collecting my thoughts on Apple's new products announced today, but I wanted to dedicate one quick post to the fact that I think the new iPhone Duo is Apple leaning in to what makes them special and what makes people like

It's not particularly useful for me, but I really dig this little UI library.

The iPhone Air is a really interesting device, isn't it?

I’m not really doing social media at the moment so I have no idea what the reaction online has been, but I watched The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time trailer today and I was blown away.

One of the things I love in Birchfeed, my RSS sync service is the news stream feature.

The design bug caught me this holiday weekend, and I've made a few changes to Birchtree.

I've been covering Apple for 16 years (using Apple stuff for 31 years), and not to toot my own horn, but I think I have a pretty good success record predicting the success of their entries into new hardware categories.

Comfort Zone, the podcast I do with Chris and Niléane is coming back later this month!

Have you ever wanted to play a game of Snake where instead of eating fruit, you took control of a white guy arresting and reporting brown people?

Casey Liss on this week's ATP: To my memory […], this is the best iPhone lineup I think they've ever had.

I officially launched Quick Reads 135 days ago, and to say I've been working hard on it since is an understatement.

Jamie Hore: Are We Really Witnessing the "Downfall" of Arc Raiders?

Ben Thompson: Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face Nvidia right now continues to be like Apple in the early years of the iPhone: for years forecasting was easy and reliable, because the company’s revenue was a function of how many…