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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’
Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread ): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop, Google has long been all-in on the browser. That leaves Anthropic as the challenger on desktop, with their latest models begging to be paired with well-crafted apps. A few months ago Google launched a native Gemini app for the Mac. A month agJohn Gruber
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ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps
A banger of an Accidental Tech Podcast members-only special, right on time . ATP memberships are just $8/month or $88/year, and the members-only episodes alone are worth the price. They do a great job explaining what makes for a Mac-assed Mac app, but an even better job talking about why users and developers should care about them. ★John Gruber
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Maestral, the Open Source Splendidly Simple Mac Dropbox Client, Has Been Retired
Maestral developer Sam Schott, on the Maestral website: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work until certificates expire. Schott, on Maestral’s GitHub project page : As of 2026-07-28, this project is archived. It’s been a fun challenge to develop a syncing client, but unfortunately, I find too little time to invest in Maestral these days. I’ve also moved away from using Dropbox myself. Maestral will still remain usable in the medium John Gruber
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Jason Snell Ends His Column, and 28-Year Run, at Macworld
Jason Snell, at Macworld: My first day on the job at Macworld, Apple was perilously close to going out of business. It was the fall of 1997, and Steve Jobs had returned to Apple and engineered the ejection of Gil Amelio as CEO, but there was no iMac yet, no visible turnaround in terms of products at all. Beyond the release of the iconic “Think Different” ad campaign, there was nothing. Apple’s survival hung by a thread. Steve Jobs asked everyone to trust him. At Macworld Expo , he had enlisted BJohn Gruber
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Day One Journal
My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in 2011 and has been the stalwart of journaling apps on Mac and iOS ever since. Day One’s apps exhibit a commitment to technical and design excellence, and, more importantly, everything they do is deeply informed by the intense personal nature of keeping a journal. (Or journals — Day One lets you create as many separate journals as you want.) The Day One Mac app is Mac-assed and the iPhone and iPad appJohn Gruber
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From the DF Archive: ‘Electron and the Decline of Native Apps’
Yours truly, back in 2018: I don’t share the depth of their pessimism regarding native apps, but Electron is without question a scourge. I think the Mac will prove more resilient than Windows, because the Mac is the platform that attracts people who care. But I worry. In some ways, the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac is that it got so much more popular a decade ago. In theory, that should have been nothing but good news for the platform — more users means more attention from developersJohn Gruber
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Fantastical 4.1.15 Adds Calendar Mirroring
Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal) so that events from one automatically show up on the other. The best part? No event information is sent to Flexibits servers or saved outside of your device. You can choose to show full event details or just block the time out as a mysterious, professional “Busy”. Your coworkers don’t need to know you’re getting a root canal, they just need to know you’re unavailable. In Flexibits’s example scenarJohn Gruber
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★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest hammer manufacturer.John Gruber
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April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’
Mike Dano, in a long ( too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app ): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators instead putting a focus on releasing mid-band spectrum for 5G. However, mmWave networks haven’t disappeared. New drive test data from Ookla’s RootMetrics, coupled with crowdsourced information from Ookla’s Speedtest Insights, shows the ongoing growth of mmWave 5G networks in thJohn Gruber
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Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers
Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247 , we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and more powerful. We know agents are increasingly integral to the coding process and the Safari MCP server gives your agent the ability to know how your code actually renders in the browser by connecting it to a Safari browser windowJohn Gruber
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EveryMac Turns 30
EveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your support through the years. Daring Fireball turns 24 next month, which doesn’t sound that much younger than 30. But the way things work (in my mind at least) is that sites that are still around but were established years prior to my startJohn Gruber
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I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)
Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-ran similar tests on more recent devices — just because it was true with the iPhone 13 Pro doesn’t mean it’s true with current models. But I’ll bet it is.) Anyway, linking to her report, I wrote: With both regular 5G and LTE, I typically get betweJohn Gruber
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Truth Social Is Still Just Trump’s Blog
After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social other than Trump himself. Not even Lutnick, a lickspittle among lickspittles. * The rest of them all use X. Which in turn reminds me of my observation from a year ago : I’ve been thinking about this for a few weeks, and in that time, Trump’s own postJohn Gruber
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‘A Perfect Reflection of Trump’s Washington’
Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency. He promised a quick, cheap fix. Instead, taxpayers got a no-bid project that ballooned to more than $14 million, delivered a freshly painted pool in “American Flag Blue,” and then promptly watched it turn green with algae as the new coating began to peel just days after it was supposedly finished. That is Trumpism in miniature: a grand decJohn Gruber
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Claude Fable and Kayfabe
Anthropic: On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States. Because the order took effect immediately and we had no reliable way to verify nationality in real-time, we suspended access to both models for all users. As of today, June 30, the export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been lifted . That’s a link to this tweeJohn Gruber
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‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’
Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly , is a Substack blog): The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that Meta’s leadership has decided to introduce to their workplace: Tracking the keyboards and mouse clicks of all engineers, where legally possible Reassign a good chunk of engineers to full-time data labeling Let staff know that 10% of them will be laid off Have a culture where devs optimizJohn Gruber
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MG Siegler Got Banned From WhatsApp for No Reason
MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: Yes, that’s right, for a third time in as many years, I’ve been banned by Meta. What for? Do you really have to ask? Nobody knows . My suspicion is that it’s directly tied to the claiming of usernames on WhatsApp, which Meta opened up yesterday . After I claimed mine, it seemingly logged me out of my other active instances. And when I went to log back in... boom. Banned. No explanation. No warning. Just a note that “This account can no longer use WhatsApp.” As wiJohn Gruber
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Hackers Stole Instagram Accounts Simply by Asking Meta AI to Give Them Access
Jason Koebler, a month ago at 404 Media: Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared to be shockingly easy. One video shows a hacker starting a conversation with Meta’s AI support bot and asking it to link the target account with a new email address: “Just link my new email address. This is my username @{target_username}. I will send you the code. {attacker_John Gruber
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★ A Tale of Two Modems
Cellular download speed and reception is nearly a solved problem for my needs. Battery life is not.John Gruber
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PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions
Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up to $23/month). One draw of these subscriptions is access to a library of game titles — but another one is that you need one of these subscriptions to play online multiplayer games. Not every game demands online access but many (most?) do. There are verJohn Gruber
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Valve Explains Why It Doesn’t Subsidize Its Hardware Platforms
Valve, in a statement to The Verge, explaining why it doesn’t sell its handheld Steam Deck or new Steam Machine gaming devices at a loss (gift link): While this might seem like an easy solution, it doesn’t align with our beliefs about how healthy ecosystems are built. If there’s anything we’re religious about at Valve, it’s our belief that open systems are better in the long run, for ourselves and customers. The openness of the PC ecosystem in particular has enabled it to be the primary driver oJohn Gruber
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The Talk Show: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’
The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta. Sponsored by: Coax : Defeat the tyranny of choice. Channel surf your Plex server. Relax with Coax. Even Realities : Even G2, the everyday display smart glasses. Use promo code talkshow to save 10% off the R1 Ring and/or Even Clip. Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase John Gruber
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404 Media: Vulnerability in iCloud’s ‘Hide My Email’ Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
Joseph Cox, reporting for 404 Media: 404 Media is not revealing the exact details of the vulnerability because it can still be exploited as of Monday, when 404 Media verified the issue with one of our own hidden email addresses. “Apple Hide My Email is leaking email addresses that are supposed to be hidden. We reported the issue and replication instructions to Apple over a year ago. We don’t know why it hasn’t been fixed, but we don’t feel comfortable waiting any longer. Hide My Email users deseJohn Gruber
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Gnome
Gnome is a deceptively clever animated GIF app by Lex Friedman: The truest thing about animated GIFs is that they are a critical pillar of modern human communication, and yet getting one into a Slack message or an iMessage thread or an email reply usually requires opening a browser, navigating to a website, searching, right-clicking, copying, switching back, pasting, and apologizing for the delay. By then the moment has passed, and the joke is dead, and what was the point of any of this, really?John Gruber
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Supreme Court Agrees to Review Apple’s Petition Regarding Civil Contempt Finding in ‘Apple v. Epic Games’
Speaking of the Supreme Court’s end-of-term rulings , they today agreed to grant certiorari to Apple’s petition from last month , ordering: APPLE INC. V. EPIC GAMES, INC. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition. Question 1 regarded the civil contempt finding — basically, whether Apple could be held in contempt for violating the spirit of the injunction by charging a commission on external payments when the letter of the injunction said notJohn Gruber
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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in 6-3 Decision
Josh Marshall, writing at TPM (gift link): As you’ve seen, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship by a 6 — or perhaps 5½ — vote margin. See Kate Riga’s report on the majority decision and Josh Kovensky’s piece on the dissenters’ goal of doing away with birthright citizenship. I repeat my point from yesterday which is that the occasional non-corrupt decision doesn’t make the Court any less corrupt or in need of reform. In this case, in a sane world, the dissents John Gruber
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★ The Supreme Court Rules That Law Enforcement’s Use of ‘Geofence Warrant’ Was a ‘Search’ (But May Be Moot, Technically, Since 2024)
Google no longer collects this information in a way that is susceptible to geofence warrants, and, more importantly, Apple never did.John Gruber
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Three Players From the Japanese Men’s National Team vs. 100 School Children
I know there’s been a lot of exciting World Cup action this week, but this 2018 clip from Japan is the best soccer video I’ve seen in a long while. ★John Gruber
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CMA Consultation on Mobile App Steering and NFC Access
The UK Competition and Markets Authority: ‘Steering’ — the ability for developers to engage with customers about off‑platform options — is currently banned by Apple and restricted by Google in the UK. Lifting these constraints would allow developers to bypass mandatory fees set by platforms. The CMA’s consultation includes principles to ensure that the fees Apple and Google charge for steering are fair and reasonable. Using an evidence-based framework, the CMA would expect steering fees to be loJohn Gruber
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U.K. Regulator Considers Requiring App Store to Allow Steering to the Web, and iOS NFC to Be Open
Sam Tabahriti, reporting for Reuters: Britain’s competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users to alternative payment options outside Apple and Alphabet’s Google app stores to cut fees and boost competition. The Competition and Markets Authority said the proposals would remove restrictions that currently prevent UK developers from directing users to off-platform payment options, which are banned by Apple and restricted by Google. The watchdog said any fees charJohn Gruber